I’m glad I went to a public school - Veteran journalist

Veteran journalist Jojo Robles recently took to Facebook to express his dismay over the recent actions of the University of Santo Tomas.

In the post, Robles was quick to point out the contradiction in the actions of the university.

He said that in the issue of the award given to Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux “Mocha” Uson, some sectors of the school was very aggressive towards the issue, but towards the issue of the Senate recommended dismemberment and resignation of the university’s Law School Dean Nilo Divina, the school fell silent.

He said that the University of Santo Tomas (UST) is one school that gives much premium in morals and Christian values, and he calls on its member to be consistent to the things that they do.

He said that he hoped that the outrage shown towards Mocha, should have been the same, or more to that given to Nilo.

In conclusion, Robles said that is a Christian school teaches these behaviour as correct, he is extremely glad that he got a public school education instead.

Read his full post here:

"UST'S SPLIT PERSONALITY. 

I watched with amusement as various sectors within the University of Santo Tomas community outdid themselves in making a big deal about the award given by the school’s alumni association to Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux “Mocha” Uson.

My amusement turned to anger when the same university community fell silent after the Senate recommended the disbarment and resignation of UST law school dean Nilo Divina, for his fraternity’s killing of Aegis Juris neophyte Horacio “Atio” Castillo III.

I don’t know what “Thomasian values” UST is trying to show the world outside its gates – not just in the Uson case but in Dean Divina’s case, as well.

I never attended UST, so I am not aware of what values it teaches its students.

All I know is, this week, the school that takes an awful lot of pride in being the only pontifical university in Asia, which proclaims that it teaches Catholic values such as “truth in charity,” unmasked itself as a thoroughly hypocritical, bigoted and poisonously partisan community.

And unless UST acts with even a fraction of the outrage that it showed when it forced Uson to return an award she never sought, fires Divina and disowns his homicidal Aegis Juris frat brothers, that opinion will not change.

I went to a public school that never presumed to teach its students moral and Christian values like UST does.

This week, I realized that I’m so glad that I did."

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Source: Facebook

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