27 December 2005
Uneasy rests San Jacinto school principal’s post
SAN JACINTO – The national high school here seems forever in search of a good administrator.
Dr. Alfredo S. Calugay, who was reassigned here only about eight months ago, was the subject of a complaint filed by some 20 teachers and employees with Department of Education Region 1 Director Vilma Labrador.
At least six charges were lodged against him to include demand for money from teacher-applicants, oppression, dishonesty, and pursuit or private business in school.
The complainants alleged that Calugay asked money from four qualified teacher-applicants for three permanent and one substitute vacant items. His reasons for solicitation were reportedly to donate a refrigerator to the division office, to pay five division personnel who will process the papers, to defray his travel expenses to Manila, and for school projects. There was neither a refrigerator given to the division office nor money given to the division personnel, they claimed in their complaint.
The principal also allowed vendors to sell inside the campus for a fee of P150 daily for electric consumption and rental but the money collected had no clear accounting, they claimed.
Calugay on several instances, humiliated teachers in front of the students, they said. While he comes late and is, most of the time, absent, he however indicated in his daily time record that he was coming on time and present, they also alleged. He also reportedly uses a casual clerk to drive for him during office hours.
For his private business, the complaining teachers said they had witnesses to prove that a refrigerator in his office was stocked with frozen foods for sale to teachers utilizing the janitress to sell and collect payments during payday.
They also claimed that he had a garage built for his personal car and an aircondition unit installed in his office. But he directed two teachers to see to it that only one electric fan in installed of the usual two per classroom which has an average of 60 students.
Calugay, they said, refused to accept responsibility in special school activities like the Science Camp and Leaders Congress hosted recently by the school. He reportedly asked the head teachers to sign a waiver that will not hold him liable in case of accidents among the student and faculty participants.
Short of seeking his transfer, they asked Labrador “to do what is deemed necessary” against him.
His predecessor, Marlene Bautista, was also forced to get out of the school early this year with several complaints raised against her for alleged anomalies.
Calugay faced similar complaints in his earlier stations in Balungao and Pozorrubio high schools, it was learned.
Dr. Alfredo S. Calugay, who was reassigned here only about eight months ago, was the subject of a complaint filed by some 20 teachers and employees with Department of Education Region 1 Director Vilma Labrador.
At least six charges were lodged against him to include demand for money from teacher-applicants, oppression, dishonesty, and pursuit or private business in school.
The complainants alleged that Calugay asked money from four qualified teacher-applicants for three permanent and one substitute vacant items. His reasons for solicitation were reportedly to donate a refrigerator to the division office, to pay five division personnel who will process the papers, to defray his travel expenses to Manila, and for school projects. There was neither a refrigerator given to the division office nor money given to the division personnel, they claimed in their complaint.
The principal also allowed vendors to sell inside the campus for a fee of P150 daily for electric consumption and rental but the money collected had no clear accounting, they claimed.
Calugay on several instances, humiliated teachers in front of the students, they said. While he comes late and is, most of the time, absent, he however indicated in his daily time record that he was coming on time and present, they also alleged. He also reportedly uses a casual clerk to drive for him during office hours.
For his private business, the complaining teachers said they had witnesses to prove that a refrigerator in his office was stocked with frozen foods for sale to teachers utilizing the janitress to sell and collect payments during payday.
They also claimed that he had a garage built for his personal car and an aircondition unit installed in his office. But he directed two teachers to see to it that only one electric fan in installed of the usual two per classroom which has an average of 60 students.
Calugay, they said, refused to accept responsibility in special school activities like the Science Camp and Leaders Congress hosted recently by the school. He reportedly asked the head teachers to sign a waiver that will not hold him liable in case of accidents among the student and faculty participants.
Short of seeking his transfer, they asked Labrador “to do what is deemed necessary” against him.
His predecessor, Marlene Bautista, was also forced to get out of the school early this year with several complaints raised against her for alleged anomalies.
Calugay faced similar complaints in his earlier stations in Balungao and Pozorrubio high schools, it was learned.
