Doctored Nurses
Doctored Nurses
THE decision whether to order a retake of the June nursing board exam has placed President Gloria Arroyo in a damn-if-you-do, damn-if-you-don’t dilemma. On Thursday, September 28, President Arroyo finally ordered all examinees of the scandal-tainted nursing board test to go back to the testing sites and take the exam anew.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the President decided to order the retake
“to redeem the image of Filipino nurses here and abroad”, adding that Cabinet members with whom Mrs.. Arroyo met to discuss the issue had argued for the retake in the conviction that “the integrity of the exam and of the nursing profession was at stake.”
Although the decision seems easy enough to understand, the solution adopted by the Arroyo government is actually too simplistic. Just because there was test paper leakage that benefitted some doesn’t mean that everyone who took the exam cheated. The same logic can be applied to laundry: to clean a stain, it is not necessary to wash the whole shirt.
Moreover, ordering all the examinees to retake the tests is tantamount to accusing everyone of committing the offense. Whatever happened to the basic tenet of the justice system that “everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty”? By requiring everyone to take the tests anew, Mrs.. Arroyo is presuming everyone guilty who has to prove his or her innocence.
It’s not the fault of those who took the tests in good faith that there were some bad eggs among them. And because the government cannot punish the guilty, it would just go on and punish everyone. The more we think about the Arroyo decision, the more we become convinced that it is not simplistic justice. It’s actually gross injustice.
Rather than order an across-the-board, wholesale retake, the President should have come up with a better thought-up plan, such as limiting the retake to the area where the leakage took place; requiring only a retake on test numbers that were leaked; requiring only those who took review classes from the suspect review centers to do the retake, etc.
These measures are enough to rehabilitate the integrity of the nursing profession and to nurse back the image of Filipino nurses abroad to respectability.
No need to presume them all guilty. No need to punish the non-guilty.
FROM: http://www.filipinoexpress.com/20/40_op-ed.html#editorial
THE decision whether to order a retake of the June nursing board exam has placed President Gloria Arroyo in a damn-if-you-do, damn-if-you-don’t dilemma. On Thursday, September 28, President Arroyo finally ordered all examinees of the scandal-tainted nursing board test to go back to the testing sites and take the exam anew.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the President decided to order the retake
“to redeem the image of Filipino nurses here and abroad”, adding that Cabinet members with whom Mrs.. Arroyo met to discuss the issue had argued for the retake in the conviction that “the integrity of the exam and of the nursing profession was at stake.”
Although the decision seems easy enough to understand, the solution adopted by the Arroyo government is actually too simplistic. Just because there was test paper leakage that benefitted some doesn’t mean that everyone who took the exam cheated. The same logic can be applied to laundry: to clean a stain, it is not necessary to wash the whole shirt.
Moreover, ordering all the examinees to retake the tests is tantamount to accusing everyone of committing the offense. Whatever happened to the basic tenet of the justice system that “everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty”? By requiring everyone to take the tests anew, Mrs.. Arroyo is presuming everyone guilty who has to prove his or her innocence.
It’s not the fault of those who took the tests in good faith that there were some bad eggs among them. And because the government cannot punish the guilty, it would just go on and punish everyone. The more we think about the Arroyo decision, the more we become convinced that it is not simplistic justice. It’s actually gross injustice.
Rather than order an across-the-board, wholesale retake, the President should have come up with a better thought-up plan, such as limiting the retake to the area where the leakage took place; requiring only a retake on test numbers that were leaked; requiring only those who took review classes from the suspect review centers to do the retake, etc.
These measures are enough to rehabilitate the integrity of the nursing profession and to nurse back the image of Filipino nurses abroad to respectability.
No need to presume them all guilty. No need to punish the non-guilty.
FROM: http://www.filipinoexpress.com/20/40_op-ed.html#editorial
sir doctor nurse. ndi po ba sa ginawang pagalis ng leakage sa exam natin, parang sinabi na din nila na cheater tayong lahat. maganda sana kung yung may leakage lang ang tinangalan ng scores. ndi po ba kasama ka din sa tinangalan ng score. so sana, dun palang nagreklamo na kayo. sa sinabi mong laundry, kung yung isang part ng shirt mo mabaho, yun lang ba lalaban mo? syempre lahat, para malinis tlga. ndi uncomfortable suotin. kasi kung ndi mo lalabhan yun, ndi ka nakakasiguro na malinis tlga yung sinuot mo.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:45 PM
eto lang yan eh, simple lang pag may nahuli ba sa inyong classroom nag cheat.. syempre sya lang paparusahan nyo!
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:01 AM
AS FAR AS THE LAUNDRY ANALOGY IS CONCERNED... NILALABHAN LANG ANG BUONG SHIRT KAPAG NAGAMIT NA KUNG KAYA NAGING MABAHO ITO. SA CASE NG MGA EXAMINEES... DI KAMI ANG GUMAMIT NUNG SHIRT...KAMI PALALABHIN NYO?... LABHAN NILA YUNG SHIRT BAGO NAMIN ISUSUOT...
HOY MAHIYA YUNG MGA DEANS AND SENIOR NURSES SA MGA EXAMINEES... WALA SILANG NAIPAMANA SA AMIN KUNDI MARUMI NA PROPESYON...
NI MINSAN SA BUHAY NG KARAMIHAN NG EXAMINEES DI NAGKATULAD ANG ZIP CODE NG KINATATAYUAN NAMIN SA MGA BON TAPOS KAMI MANANAGOT PARA SA KAGAGUHAN NILA... HIBANG!!!!
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:29 AM
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Anonymous |
8:28 PM