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A few months ago, this Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez branded UP students as destabilizers and naked runners. This is because of UP’s tradition of the students speaking their minds, being activist or leftist, and so on. The UP Oblation run where a bunch of fraternity men run naked was and is a form of protest against the government or whatnot.

Well, think again. That may be true before, but not anymore. A lot of students are now apathetic. Not just students of UP but the youth in general. They don’t care much about what’s going on with the world or with the country–unless it is required of them to know.

Admit it. When some student group calls for a boycott or walk-out of classes, they rejoice–not because they’re going to have the chance to get their voices heard, but because there won’t be any classes. Not like they’re going to go out on the streets and probably watch TV or go to the mall. Or if they would be in dismay, it’s because there are some who DO like attending classes, or they hate make up classes.

I hate it. Everyone thinks I’m an activist. My supervising teacher assumes that I hate Erap. Forgive me, everyone, but I’m not fooled by Gloria’s diversion tactics. True, Erap did the country wrong, but what he has stolen from the country is mere pocket change compared to what the Arroyo administration has stolen. This reopening of the Erap issue was just to divert our attention from this now overrated ZTE issue.

I find this circus the current government is running very amusing–not. I don’t even watch TV. Anyway, about Erap, some people say, “The man is old. Let him just die. Why put him in jail? Kawawa naman siya.” (What a pity). Some say, “Yes! Put him to jail! He deserves it!”

This is such a pitiful human nature of ours. We never remember the good things a person who has wronged us so much has done. We only remember the bad things.

I am not Pro-Erap, if that is what you’re thinking. I’m not Anti-Erap either. I am, however, anti-Arroyo. She’s so obvious already yet she continues to deny it. I can’t even express my utter hate for her in words.

I believe that Erap is too stupid to devise all those money laundering and corruption schemes. They have to find his advisors, those who planned it for him. Arroyo, however, in her little stature, has, admittedly, a wonderful mind. Her scheming little mind I believe works wonderful ways wherein most of the people wouldn’t understand.

But I digress. So my Supervising teacher talks to me as if I am so Anti-Erap. I had my students write an essay on their feelings regarding that matter and a lot of them have said that they should let the old man go, since he’s probably not even going to last another 10 years. And when my ST saw those kinds of answers she was kind of annoyed because “they do not know what they are talking about” and that “they should research about it” or “read the newspapers.” The students who answered these kinds of questions, however, have pointed out that they should stop going after Erap since it is useless and just get Arroyo off her seat. Like one of my students said, “Erap has been declared guilty. Has justice really been served? What about Arroyo? Where is this ‘justice’ they are talking about?”

True, the students don’t care much about what’s happening in the world, but they have ears, they can hear. They have eyes, they can see. They suffer as well (UP is a public school, so they feel the corruption and the poverty as well). Most of the parents are UP employees.

Ah. I am digressing again.

What I really wanted to say was … DON’T PUT ME IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS YOU! Don’t assume that just because I’m from UP I have to be an activist like you. I don’t freakin’ care! I don’t give a damn!

Nah, just kidding. I do care, I do give a damn. But my opinions are different than yours. Stop making me into someone like you.

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I wish I could say all those to my ST. I really hate it that she wants me to follow in her footsteps. She wants my teaching style to be like hers. I feel stifled. No wonder Rudolf, the past student-teacher under her, was awarded “The Most Problematic”. I totally understand now. The other supervising teachers recommend, suggest… I get ordered to change it. I get told that it’s wrong. And if I still don’t get it right, she tells me what is right.

I don’t like that.

I do have to applaud her. Even if the students dislike her, she can get a lot of them to recite. But in the end, they wonder why the heck they had to study what they just studied in class, and they find it pointless.

Don’t worry kids–I do too.

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