This screengrab from a viral video exhibits a member of the Colonel Ruperto Abellon Nationwide Faculty workers (proper) in Laua-an, Vintage approaching the college principal (left) after the latter requested college students to take off their togas and as an alternative put on solely their faculty uniforms and sablays at their commencement ceremony on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (Screengrab from @engr.johnrey/TikTok)
MANILA, Philippines — The Division of Training (DepEd) Faculties Division of Vintage ordered the principal of a Laua-an city faculty to clarify a commotion at its commencement rites over the prescribed apparel.
The scene was caught on movies now circulating on social media.
“The Faculties Division of Vintage is saddened by the incident that occurred [at the] Colonel Ruperto Abellon Nationwide Faculty (CRANS), Guisijan, Laua-an, Vintage on April 15, 2025, throughout the conduct of the end-of-school-year (EOSY) rites,” it stated in a press release Wednesday.
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“This workplace has already organized an investigation workforce and ordered the college head and different involved officers to submit an incident report with an applicable intervention plan,” the Vintage colleges division workplace additional stated.
In one of many movies, the principal advised the graduating college students to take off their togas because it was supposedly not the prescribed apparel for the ceremony.
She advised them to put on as an alternative solely their faculty uniform and their “sablay” (handwoven sash).
Additional, she directed the category advisers to checklist down the names of scholars who violated the supposed gown code.
“We’re coaching our learners to be disciplined and obedient to authority… I don’t need our learners to be bastos (disrespectful),” the principal was heard saying within the video.
A faculty workers member was seen approaching the principal on stage, presumably to confront her, however was whisked away by colleagues.
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“Whereas ready for the incident experiences from all involved events, we guarantee the general public that this workplace shall exhaust all means to make sure that affected learners is not going to be disadvantaged of their rights and privileges as graduates, comparable to receiving their diplomas, certificates and different credentials,” DepEd Vintage stated.
“Furthermore, applicable interventions shall be carried out as quickly as potential to make sure that learners’ psychological and psychological wants shall be appropriately addressed,” it added.
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DepEd Order No. 9 sequence of 2023 up to date the rules for the conduct of end-of-school-year rites for the Okay to 12 fundamental training program.
The order features a provision that states: “Informal or formal put on, or faculty uniform, shall stay because the really useful transferring up or commencement apparel. Toga or ‘sablay’ can be worn as a further garb.”
The video of the commencement day commotion has since gone viral on social media platforms.
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