Leakage masters must hang
Posted on October 12, 2006 - Filed Under Review |
By guilty, we mean not the thousands of examinees who may or may not have used and benefited from the leakage but the very authorities, in or out of government, who first passed or kicked the dirty ball down the line.
The past weeks when concerned agencies including the Senate began investigating the examination scandal, with a star witness confronting the head of a review center supposedly involved in the leakage and vice versa, televiewers were treated to the spectacle of arrogance and mocking stance –pouting mouth, smirks, wry smiles and all — coming from the fingered review center official.
More recent developments on the issue, particularly the President’s order last week for a retake of two parts of the Nursing exam tests by the examinees, have somehow buried the investigation results. Many now believe, and not entirely without basis, that the culpability of the parties directly involved in the production and distribution of the leakage is thus now slowly being sidestepped, if not being watered down. Entire legions of examinees and whole armies of disgusted families of the examinees will not stand for this – if justice is to be served, the most guilty ones must be among the first to hang.
International watchers as well are keenly watching the developments on the issue and will not be appeased by any order for the holding of new examinations altogether if the very authorities and personalities behind the whole sordid scenario walk away from this one scot-free.
Indeed if we readily use the battlecry “Save the User, Jail the Pusher” in the anti-drugs campaign, this scandal on integrity and morals in national examinations should similarly raise the stakes high to “Pity the examinee, Hang the examiners.”
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