Cases Violation

Pasig principal in trouble
over fee collection

By: Jovic Yee - Reporter / @jovicyeeINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 07:34 AM January 21, 2016
MANILA, Philippines — A Pasig City school principal is in trouble as more than a hundred
of her staff are calling for her removal, allegedly due to the wrongdoings she has
committed over the last two years.
The Rizal High School Teachers Association (RHSTA) is calling for the removal of
Virginia Membrebe as school principal for allegedly violating Republic Act No. 4670, or
the “Magna Carta for Teachers.”
Membrebe is being accused by the group of putting them in a “sticky situation” when she
made them “collecting agents” of the P150 fee charged to students for their National
Achievement Test (NAT) review. RHSTA president Glenn Guardiano said that this was in
direct violation of the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers, which prohibited such
action.
Asked what the fee was for, Guardiano told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that they had no
idea where the proceeds of the fee went to. He added that it took them two years to
speak up against Membrebe, who has been school principal for almost four years now,
because they were “obedient and had hoped that one day the situation will change.”
But in October 2015, Guardiano claimed that P200 was again asked from the close to
9,000 students for a stage play. Guardiano said that the play did not push through
because of their opposition to it and fees that have already been collected were returned.
Due to these two cases of what they deemed to be questionable collection of fees, the
group filed in late November a grievance complaint against Membrebe at the Department
of Education (DepEd) Pasig Division. RHS has around 330 teachers and Guardiano said
that only more than half of the teachers signed the complaint because those qualified for
promotion “feared a backlash” and others simply had a “debt of gratitude” to Membrebe.
Parent-Teachers Associations (PTA) normally speak up whenever issues such as these
crop up in the school. In their situation, however, Guardiano claimed that their PTA
“allowed for the fees to be collected.”
Guardiano expressed concern, especially in the collection for the NAT fee as this
becomes a source of “discrimination,” since “students who weren’t able to pay up weren’t
given test papers during the mock test.”
Marivic Leaño, DepEd Pasig assistant schools division superintendent officer in charge,
said on Wednesday that the results of the three-member grievance committee hearing
the complaint against Membrebe would release its findings within the month. If the
complaint against her were proven true, Leaño said that Membrebe would be removed
from her post and transferred to another school.
Should the committee side with Membrebe, Guardiano vowed to bring the charges up to
the regional division, saying that Membrebe’s presence as school principal “isn’t healthy
anymore” for the teachers. He, however, assured that this matter has not affected the
students’ classes. SFM
Teachers face trial in court
for extortion, estafa+
GEROME M. DALIPE
April 19, 2017
THREE public school teachers will face trial in court for allegedly making it appear that a
colleague extorted money from teacher-applicants in exchange for their appointments in
2014.
Euphemia Bacalso, graft investigation and prosecution officer, found evidence to charge
Sisinia Vasquez, program supervisor of the Talisay City Schools Division; and Emily
Villaver, teacher at Lawaan Elementary School, with three counts of violation of
Republic Act (Code of Conduct and Ethical standards for Public Officials and
Employees).
The anti-graft office also indicted Villaver, her cousin, Carmen Villaver, a teacher at
Mohon Elementary School, with two counts of attempted estafa.
Vasquez and Carmen are siblings, while Emily is their cousin.
Vasquez and Emily Villaver were also charged with three counts of violating the Code of
Conduct and Ethical standards for Public Officials and Employees.
Likewise, Vasquez and her cousin Emily were charged with three counts of estafa by
means of deceit, which is punishable under the Revised Penal Code.
“Their conspiracy is executed by either one of the respondents who made the demand
for sums of money, while the other received or made follow-ups for the delivery of the
same. Clearly, the participation of each respondent is directed towards one common
purpose,” read Bacalso’s 20-page resolution.
The case stemmed from the complaint filed by Maria Lourdes Ipong, former principal of
the Talisay Central Elementary School, who accused the respondents of misconduct
and violating the anti-graft law.
Ipong alleged that the respondents made it appear that she extorted money from
teacher-applicants of the Department of Education in Talisay City in exchange for their
appointments.
Ipong attached to her complaint-sheet the affidavits of several teacher-applicants, who

corroborated her claim that the respondents used her name to allegedly extort money
from them.
Replying to the charges, the respondents said that Ipong’s charges “are mere products
of her imagination coupled with threats upon the newly hired teachers.”
Meanwhile, the ombudsman dismissed for lack of evidence the graft charges against
the respondents.

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Pasig principal in trouble

over fee collection

Vasquez and Carmen are siblings, while Emily is their cousin.

Ipong attached to her complaint-sheet the affidavits of several teacher-applicants, who

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