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Features 12<br />
In describing a student as someone who "may be the evolutionary link between orangutans<br />
and humans" on Facebook, an XYZ High School music teacher received a complaint for mocking his<br />
African-American student, April 16. The teacher, Laurent Orbano, was identified after a screenshot<br />
of the Facebook post was sent to the Office of the Principal, one day after the incident.<br />
Article VII Section 3. Under no circumstance shall a teacher be prejudiced or discriminate against<br />
a learner.<br />
During a court hearing last week for a former ABC National High School teacher who sexually<br />
abused three children, the victims’ families told a judge that Brian Tolentino seemed to them like a<br />
devoted friend. “He would take the boys to restaurants, concerts, sporting events, amusement parks<br />
and sometimes to his own house to play video games,” according to court testimony.<br />
Article XI Section 3. A teacher shall maintain at all times a dignified personality which could<br />
serve as a model worthy of emulation by learners, peers and all others.<br />
Tony Rodriguez, who is assigned at the LMN Elementary School, used the family name of her second<br />
husband when she entered into the government service even if their marriage was not valid. Rodriguez<br />
allegedly falsified official documents from the court declaring the presumed death of her first<br />
husband, Bernardino Rodriguez.<br />
Article XI Section 3. A teacher shall maintain at all times a dignified personality which could<br />
serve as a model worthy of emulation by learners, peers and all others.<br />
Court records said the complainant, then 12 years old, told the court that about 4 p.m. on May 17,<br />
2015, the teacher asked him and his two classmates to stay in their classroom for a remedial class<br />
in English as a preparation for the Regional Achievement Examination. He said the teacher asked him<br />
to solve a math problem and because he was short, he pulled a chair and stood on it to answer the<br />
problem on the board. However, when he failed to solve the problem, he said the teacher pulled him<br />
by the hair, and banged his head on the blackboard.<br />
Article VIII. Section 8. A teacher shall not inflict corporal punishment on offending learners nor make<br />
deductions from their scholastic ratings as a punishment for acts which are clearly not manifestation<br />
of poor scholarship.<br />
A protective parent referred a case to her lawyer against Mrs. Rosa Rosal the teacher of her Grade<br />
III daughter. She alleged that on so many occasions, had traumatized her daughter. This caused her<br />
daughter not to report for class for a long period of time, exceeding the 20 percent allowed by the<br />
Department of Education.<br />
Article VIII. Section 8. A teacher shall not inflict corporal punishment on offending learners nor make<br />
deductions from their scholastic ratings as a punishment for acts which are clearly not manifestation<br />
of poor scholarship.