ANO NA????
what the hell is wrong with this school?
yesterday, umulan nang malakas when me and my friends went outside. when we got back inside the campus, we were literally soaking wet. we went back inside the campus and stayed in a room where our department usually stays just so we could dry ourselves for a while. sobrang basa namin, and our feet were already wet and mabaho, so we took off our shoes temporarily.
then this guard came in and told us to leave.
honestly, nakakagalit. Nakita na nga nila yung kondisyon namin—basang-basa, nangangatog, and literally trying to dry ourselves—and pinaalis pa rin kami. I understand na “utos lang” daw, but that doesn’t make the situation any less fucking frustrating. At some point, you would expect even a little consideration from the people directly dealing with students.
I argued with the guard and explained na we were only going to stay for a couple of minutes para magpatila at magpatuyo. Pero ang sagot pa rin, “utos lang sa amin.”
TANGINA NG “UTOS LANG SA AMIN.”
And this is exactly why I’m pissed, not just at the guards, but at the entire system that apparently thinks this is an acceptable way to treat students. Sabi sa amin, sa library na lang daw kami tumambay. Except sobrang lamig sa library, and apparently students were also being asked to leave there. So saan talaga kami pupunta? Outside? Back into the rain? We were already fucking soaked and freezing. What were we supposed to do?
We weren’t trying to occupy the room for hours. We weren’t disrupting a class. We weren’t doing anything inappropriate. We literally just wanted somewhere dry and sheltered to stay for a couple of minutes while we dried ourselves.
This is where I genuinely question the management of this school. Who comes up with these policies and thinks they make sense in actual situations? Because if the response to students being soaking wet from heavy rain is to kick them out of a sheltered room and send them somewhere that’s equally uncomfortable, then maybe the policy needs to be fucking reconsidered.
Rules are important, sure. But rules without common sense are just ridiculous. There should be some kind of consideration for situations like this. If students are visibly wet, cold, and trying to dry themselves, surely there can be an exception for them to stay somewhere for a short period of time. And we literally pay tuition. Obviously, that doesn’t mean we own the fucking campus or get to break every rule we want. But the least we should be able to expect is a school environment where basic student welfare is actually considered.
What pisses me off is how everything becomes “policy” and “utos” the moment students ask for a little consideration. Parang mas importanteng masunod yung rule kaysa tingnan kung reasonable ba talaga yung ginagawa. And yes, nakakagalit din yung guards because they were the ones standing there and telling us to leave despite seeing the situation firsthand. But the bigger issue is that the school has created an environment where this is apparently the appropriate response in the first place.
Management needs to understand that students are not just people who need to follow instructions. We’re actual fucking people who sometimes get caught in the rain, get cold, get tired, and need a little consideration. Hindi naman kami humihingi ng special treatment. We were literally just asking to dry ourselves. If even that is too much to give students, then what the hell are we actually paying for?