A group of private schools are not silent
about their stand of not supporting the sexual orientation, gender identity,
and expression (SOGIE) Equality Bill, and has in fact urged those supporting
the said bill “put up a school of their own.”
The Federation of
Associations of Private Schools & Administrators (FAPSA) said that those
pushing for the passage of the SOGIE bill “have gone overboard with their
“demands.”
FAPSA warns if their
demands proceeds unabated they are suggesting a separate school should be put
up for them so as to avoid confusion among other learners and other members of
the learning institutions.
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“They have gone
overboard,” said FAPSA President Eleazardo Kasilag. “They” pertaining to the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community calling for the passage
of the SOGIE bill, as well as those who are supporting it.
FAPSA, which caters to
issues on the operation of private schools as well as concerns on school
management, said that its member schools also expressed reservations accepting
students on the basis of SOGIE. “
“We do not even know how
to call them? SOGIE creature? Heaven sent? Normal alien or just SOGIE
kid?” Kasilag asked. “How do we answer toddlers, ‘where they came from if they
are not he or she’,” he lamented.
FAPSA
member schools, Kasilag said, supports diversity of learners. “We accommodate
Muslims and other faiths, being non-sectarian schools, most of us, but to
accept new enrollees who shall demand our schools’ vision, mission and
objectives radically changed just to welcome them, they better put up a school
of their own,” he noted.
“We
do not want to change our school vision, our objectives or adjust our
understanding our morals,” he stressed.
Kasilag
clarifies that FAPSA “has no quarrel” with the LGBTQ c since
some of the FAPSA officers and teachers belong to the LGBTQ community. “[Some
of them are] gay and lesbians and they are well-respected but this SOGIE [bill]
is bending us over too far,” he stressed.
Kasilag
notes that private schools has no intention of creating “gender-neutral toilets’
because “we do not have budget for that.”
Kasilag
then asked how the public schools under the Department of Education (DepEd)
would adjust to the proposal. “I also wonder how the public schools, which do
not have enough toilets, can cope with this demand,” he added.
Status
quo should be maintained
FAPSA
as an organization has a stand that if the SOGIE bill becomes a law it shall “tilt
the equilibrium when policies change to accommodate them” – noting that the
school manual and regulations are not something that can be altered and
influenced easily.
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