Let her graduate
By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper We join in sighing with relief, the family of a student in Cebu City who was convicted and excluded from the graduation ceremonies by a pack of religious educators, ironically. This morning (March 30), the early TV news flashed a report that the Regional Trial Court (RTC) had ordered the school run by Catholic nuns to let the girl graduate and join the graduation rites. We don’t know the merits of the case. What we have are so far sketchy data based on published reports. First off, the high school senior’s trouble began when the nuns discovered photos of her in her social network account in bikini. There was nothing wrong in those pictures except that in some, she was wearing two-piece swimming attire. The shots were taken in a wholesome family excursion in a beach where people were expected to swim and so, wear swimming gear, that is, the conventional bathing suit and two-piece or bikini for girls, and a trunk for boys. The family was not off...