Why Sadsad should be removed from QueSci?

Quezon City Science High School has had many better principals than Dr. Sadsad. The two preceding principals were miles ahead in terms of good relationship with the students and the Scientian Community as a whole as compared to Dr. Sadsad. She, Dr. Sadsad has been in Kisay for almost a year now, and during this time, she has done many things which as she claims are for the benefit of Scientia.

First, a leader must know how to respect other people. This is something that we do not see in her. As the principal it is unquestionable that she is the supreme and absolute leader in our school however she should had abused it. If you are a student of Kisay, you should have known by now that she would scream in front of a veteran and a very respectable teacher in Kisay during the flag raising ceremonies. Sometimes she would use the opportunity to shove into the face of the teachers their lapses in handling their students, in simple terms, humiliate them in front of the students. Her rude manners lead to students calling her different names such as “Dora”. She may want to enforce discipline among us Scientians, but as far as we know, respect for others is one of the highest forms of discipline.

Next, Dr. Sadsad removed the brilliant (no pun intended) adviser of the school paper, The Electron. The reason for his removal was justified by her saying, “give others the chance”. It is highly questionable why she removed someone who is perfectly doing his job well. As far as we know, during his time as the adviser, the staffers would bring home a lot of trophies and gold medals from the different competitions that they would be participating in. If the principle that she lives by is “to give others the chance” then we suggest that she give other principals the chance to take control in Kisay.

As part of the “Reforms” that Dr. Sadsad implemented this school year, 2008-2009, she removed all extra curricular activities. She is inclining the students to putting more loads of work on their desk. Of course, we are in a Science High School and it is highly expected that we will have a lot of things study however, she is somewhat pushing the students to the limits. As far as we know, it is only the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION who could change the curriculum being enforced in a particular school. As of now, there are ENFORCED ELECTIVES being implemented on the school. The elective (which is supposed to be chosen by the students themselves) is being given to them depending on their section. If they could even choose, there are fewer choices as compared to the choices given before her administration.

Aforementioned in the elimination of extra curricular activities, she also removed the Scientian tradition of celebrating the Foundation Day of our school. As compared to previous foundation day celebrations, the celebration of the 41^st founding anniversary of the school was more like of a regular school day. There were no events to be proud of. Well, except for her Foundation Day speech wherein she reiterated that she is the head of the school and she told the students to stop blogging about her administration. And in one point of her speech, she even mentioned an alumnus of the school who has blogged about her and somewhat humiliating the said alumnus. During her speech as can be best described, she is like Ferdinand Marcos, addressing the Filipino people and telling each and every Filipino that he is the president of the Philippines and that no one can destroy him. During her speech, Dr. Sadsad was very much like a fully automatic howitzer firing words and each and every word she fires, she would hit the reputation of others.

One of the climatic events during the foundation week was the suspension of a student who was caught wearing a black armband. The student said that the black armband was a symbol for his discontent with Dr. Sadsad and wearing a black arm band was his way of expressing his discontent. Dr. Sadsad was more than willing to suspend that student. The way, they, Dr. Sadsad and her administration judged the case was very questionable. The principal kept on invoking that the “Pledge of Accountability” that students signed during their enrolment, was the handbook that she is following. However, there exists a student handbook that gives a better perspective of the case. And yet, Dr. Sadsad claims that the student handbook is no longer valid. In plain terms, they suspended the student for “disrespect” that is written in the “Pledge of Accountability”. How could Dr. Sadsad issue a suspension order, if the “Pledge of Accountabilty” that she proclaims as the handbook does not even mention any punishment for any violation in the said pledge? The student handbook gives a detailed way on how to suspend students. But Dr. Sadsad made her own way. She was the complainant, the judge and the executioner on that case. The handbook clearly states that there is a due process on how things are to be done and it could have taken days or weeks. But the trial lasted only for a few hours. True that the accused has the right to speedy trial but speedy trial does not mean a mock trial. The case of the 4 suspended students is as much the same as this.

School officials should know how to follow the rules that they set. What does the handbook exists for? As far as we know, the student handbook will continue to exist unless a new handbook or a revised version would take its place. In this case, the new handbook that replaced the old one is not even qualified to be called a handbook. In plain view it is a pledge.

Aside from these administrative delinquencies of Dr. Sadsad, she is also said to have had his hands on several monetary issues regarding the school. First, Dr. Sadsad has hired his brother to serve in the Property Room of the school. We do not know if this is legal but it is quite questionable. Next, some of her trips going out of the country have some questionable details. On a certain trip for example, she solicited money for 5 students however, only 2 students joined in the said trip. The money which was supposed to be allotted to the 3 students are, well I’ll leave that to your imagination. Also noted is her “renovation” of the school. She has placed some crafty stone works in front of her office and on the stage. It may not seem questionable but then, is she wants to “beautify” the school, she should have allotted money for the renovation of the comfort rooms especially those in the Margate Hall. Also, she has put up an orchidarium in the school whose purpose remains a mystery. The questionable part is the, amount of the construction materials that were used in creating these renovations. There are rumors that the materials used came from their hardware and that the price per unit was arranged. To be quite honest, we do not have any concrete evidence that could support these allegations but perhaps a formal investigation could help remove the shroud behind these issues.

Dr. Sadsad agreed with the demolition of the old wooden building in our school in order to build a new school building that would be sponsored by the city government. The building was demolished during the summer of 2008, since the building with a five room capacity has been demolished, there is a need for rooms for the students. The solution was to put them in the science laboratories of our school. There the third year levels are using the laboratories as their classroom. Up to now, the new school building hasn’t started yet. Perhaps it could have been a wiser decision if the principal just agreed on demolishing the old building just days before the new building would be built. In this way, the students didn’t have to cluster in these laboratories. The classroom of one section for example is just like the half of the area of a regular classroom. This is what the third year students are complaining. And the laboratories could have been of better use of the students would perform experiments concerning their studies. If Dr. Sadsad really wanted Scientians to be ace students then they should not have been deprived the right to use the laboratories and the old building should have been kept standing until the plans for the new building were ready. By the look of events, it appears that the new building would probably be built this summer.

In the case of the four suspended students who are not connected to this account. Dr. Sadsad has again performed her speedy trial technique. The suspension given to the students was way abusive of her powers. Based from the facts that we have gathered, she has had lapses in judging the case of the 4 suspended students. Just like every Scientian out there, they just expressed their grievances against her and what they’ve got was a 10 day suspension. Dr. Sadsad shouldn’t have been an onion skinned official. However, she doe not like criticism and she always wants to make sure that everyone will follow her.

For the aforementioned reasons, we do not see why a leader such as Dr. Sadsad should stay in Kisay and mold students like us. What she is doing is not for the benefit of the greater majority. We could not take to have a leader who no longer has the respect of its followers. It will do no harm if the DepEd would take a look into these problems. Perhaps we should all come to our senses, fellow Scientians, are we going to let this continue? Are going to allow her to continually enshroud us with fear and threaten us with suspension? The decision that we would make today, will change our future.

For Mr. Pabs Espanola, these are the reasons why we hate Dr. Sadsad. The previous handler of this account has gone beyond the line of stating our cause. She has used this account to make fun of Dr. Sadsad and not inform the public of her wrongdoings in QueSci.

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