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Twenty-eight students face academic suspension this second week of September for varied reasons.
HOUSE PARTY
Twenty students are suspended for drinking alcohol and violating the curfew. Fourteen of them are members of the graduating class, one fifth year, and five third years.
On the night of September 2 they had a shindig at a house in Datil, Poblacion. Accordingly, one of the fourth years is celebrating her birthday so she invited her classmates and friends and her friends boyfriends. But it turned out that there is no birthday celebration at all but merely a party which they planned.
The real birthday celebrant who is a senior student was not invited and felt bad that her classmates did not go to her party. She is grateful though because she's not suspended. There are other students who were invited but they opted not to go.
"I'm proud of you," Sir Dennis Faustino, the school headmaster, told Winzum Dao-as, a senior student, who did not go with the group.
"You should be angry, you who are law-abiding citizens, because you are the ones affected," he further said to members of the Journalism Class who are not suspended.
The suspended students missed lessons for three days this week, some of them four days for further minor violations, and they can't be given make-up activities. They have to study on their own to catch up with what they missed.
They were also subjected to hard labor for three days, some four, cleaning and clearing the school campus, back filling the road, and digging out drainage.
Aside from that, they will not be illegible for honors this quarter and extra-curricular activities except CAT.
The suspended students are: 5th year - Hamid Guialab; 4th years - Janice Mayocyoc, Lyka Caligtan, Ericka Acebedo, Luis Edpis, Pandi Bangsail, Ryan Camtugan, Jr., Lenard Gaong, Thea Bacoco, Munirih Calpo, Armiro Gulian, Frenzon Cosme, Jansen Domoguen, Caleb Tangab, and Irina Quilaman; 3rd years - Badley Gulian, Kai-assen Aligo (transferee), Bertrand Dao-as, Jessie Dacanay (transferee), and Jessrael Bucat.
Aligo, who was suspended thrice and was re-installed after an appeal, should have been out of the school but his parents came to appeal and since he showed improvement in academics since his re-installation and his willingness to go under stricter rules, he will stay.
DEFYING TYPHOON
On August 29, during the strong typhoon, three senior students were drinking alcohol at a friend's boarding house.
Jansen Domoguen and James Faustino were drunk in Frenzon Cosme's boarding house in Ato, Poblacion.
Domoguen and Cosme will be suspended for another three days while Faustino, three days. The same sanctions will be imposed to them as above.
Domoguen, who is a Student Government Organization officer, will step down from his post. Cosme would have taken his place but since he's one of the suspended students, he won't. Hellevie Fagyan, the seventh in rank last SGO elections, will take Domoguen's place.
COMPUTER GAMES ADDICTION
Four first year students and a third year student were also suspended, for the second time, for playing computer games in town on September 5.
Ruben Balatbat, Jan Bennett Ganga-aoen, Sadler Bawing, and Lean Jude Edpis, first year students, and Joshua Salcedo, third year student, will miss three days of lessons, will work around the school, and is not eligible for honors this quarter.
Salcedo played computer twice. He missed school and went to the Sagada Centrum to play. One more violation and they will be asked to leave the school.
DRINKING WITH AN EX-SMS STUDENT
Shane Cosme, a third year transferee, had a drinking session and violated the curfew on September 2.
She and former SMS students Sara Bawing and friends were drunk during that night.
The same sanctions are due to her.
AWOL
Nathalie Foronda, a first year, went home on September 3 without noticing the dorm master and was absent for two days. There was no valid reason for the absences except for homesickness so she is also suspended.
Mrs. Nemia Lite, the school principal, conducted conferences with the parents of the students before their suspensions took effect. They will have to see the guidance counselor and the chaplain also.
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