‘Doomed’idealist Dennis Bautista
‘Doomed’idealist Dennis Bautista
By Katrice R. Jalbuena
“I truly feel that my future in nursing is doomed,” said Dennis Bautista.
He is the June 2006 nursing licensure examinee who gained fame—or notoriety—depending on whether you are with the retake or with the no-retake side of the divide—as the first “whistleblower” to tell the world about the leakage of test questions.
“But I also believe that, a person with the correct values, if he knows the truth about something bad, has a responsibility to tell what he knows,” he added. “Now they are cursing me by text messages and on the Internet. They can’t say anything truthful against me, so they invent stories. “Lalabas rin ang katotohanan [The truth will out.]”
It hasn’t been easy for Bautista who has been grilled in the Senate, in the House and by NBI agents and other investigators. Antiretake people have questioned his character and his motives (“That fellow just wants to grab the limelight!” “He wants to become a movie star!”).
“I wanted to become a priest,” Bautista said. “But I felt that, in order to truly help my family, I needed to give up what I thought was my vocation.”
He obviously had no calling for the priesthood after all. But it is obvious that he is an idealist.
He went into sales. He set up—with some friends—a cleaning-services business. At various times, he also did some serious training in computer programming. And he almost became a Pagcor dealer. These were all before he became a full-time nursing student and eventually finished and took the June 2006 exam.
Don Bosco boy
Bautista attended Don Bosco, Mandaluyong, for his elementary and high school. He was a scholar and a student leader. He was a member of the student council and president of the St. Dominic Savio Friends Club. St. Dominic Savio, a student, was the foremost follower of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians.
Bautista graduated with a degree in Electronic Communications Engineering.
OFW father
Born to a family of four, one of Bautista’s sisters is a nurse. His other sister is a medical technician working in the United States. He has an older brother stricken with polio and confined to a wheelchair.
His father was an OFW in Kuwait who died just before Bautista entered college. Just before Bautista took up the role of NLE-leakage “whistleblower” his mother left for the US where she now lives with his sister.
It was obviously to get a well-paying job quickly in the USA that made him enroll at the Philippine College of Health Sciences.
As a PCHS nursing graduate and examinee, Dennis had the opportunity to attend the review classes in all three review centers which have been found liable for leaking test material to their students during the final reviews.
The PCHS and Ingress Review Centers are both owned by George Cordero, former president of the Philippine Nurses’ Association. The PCHS students got to attend the Ingress reviews for free.
“Pero ’yung nanay ko, para sigurado, enrolled me also in the Pentagon Review Center,” said Bautista. His mother was anxious about having him go to the USA and be with her and his sister.
“I was happy with the review courses in Pentagon. But other nursing graduates also advised me to take my final coaching in Gapuz. Maganda daw diyan,” Bautista said.
On June 6 and 7 Bautista attended the final coaching sessions of the Ingress Review center at the SM Cinemas. While he was there, the topics taken up were only psychiatric nursing and medical-surgical. The instructors told them that these were the only “important” part of the exam. He said the instructors told them, “Kaya na ninyo ’yung iba.”
Bautista was aware that many of the instructors of Pentagon had at one time or another been members of the PRC. Sometimes students found the answer to a question hard to accept or understand, so they asked the instructors to explain. Each time this happened the instructor queried would say “Basta, ’yan ang sagot,” leaving no room for argument or more queries.
PRC connections
Bautista recalls that the reviewees and sometimes instructors would “joke around, saying that they had connections at the PRC so if they said ‘lalabas to sa exam” lalabas talaga. Nag-joke sila na ‘nananaginip sila ng sabay-sabay’ as to what would actually come out in the exam.”
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By Katrice R. Jalbuena
“I truly feel that my future in nursing is doomed,” said Dennis Bautista.
He is the June 2006 nursing licensure examinee who gained fame—or notoriety—depending on whether you are with the retake or with the no-retake side of the divide—as the first “whistleblower” to tell the world about the leakage of test questions.
“But I also believe that, a person with the correct values, if he knows the truth about something bad, has a responsibility to tell what he knows,” he added. “Now they are cursing me by text messages and on the Internet. They can’t say anything truthful against me, so they invent stories. “Lalabas rin ang katotohanan [The truth will out.]”
It hasn’t been easy for Bautista who has been grilled in the Senate, in the House and by NBI agents and other investigators. Antiretake people have questioned his character and his motives (“That fellow just wants to grab the limelight!” “He wants to become a movie star!”).
“I wanted to become a priest,” Bautista said. “But I felt that, in order to truly help my family, I needed to give up what I thought was my vocation.”
He obviously had no calling for the priesthood after all. But it is obvious that he is an idealist.
He went into sales. He set up—with some friends—a cleaning-services business. At various times, he also did some serious training in computer programming. And he almost became a Pagcor dealer. These were all before he became a full-time nursing student and eventually finished and took the June 2006 exam.
Don Bosco boy
Bautista attended Don Bosco, Mandaluyong, for his elementary and high school. He was a scholar and a student leader. He was a member of the student council and president of the St. Dominic Savio Friends Club. St. Dominic Savio, a student, was the foremost follower of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians.
Bautista graduated with a degree in Electronic Communications Engineering.
OFW father
Born to a family of four, one of Bautista’s sisters is a nurse. His other sister is a medical technician working in the United States. He has an older brother stricken with polio and confined to a wheelchair.
His father was an OFW in Kuwait who died just before Bautista entered college. Just before Bautista took up the role of NLE-leakage “whistleblower” his mother left for the US where she now lives with his sister.
It was obviously to get a well-paying job quickly in the USA that made him enroll at the Philippine College of Health Sciences.
As a PCHS nursing graduate and examinee, Dennis had the opportunity to attend the review classes in all three review centers which have been found liable for leaking test material to their students during the final reviews.
The PCHS and Ingress Review Centers are both owned by George Cordero, former president of the Philippine Nurses’ Association. The PCHS students got to attend the Ingress reviews for free.
“Pero ’yung nanay ko, para sigurado, enrolled me also in the Pentagon Review Center,” said Bautista. His mother was anxious about having him go to the USA and be with her and his sister.
“I was happy with the review courses in Pentagon. But other nursing graduates also advised me to take my final coaching in Gapuz. Maganda daw diyan,” Bautista said.
On June 6 and 7 Bautista attended the final coaching sessions of the Ingress Review center at the SM Cinemas. While he was there, the topics taken up were only psychiatric nursing and medical-surgical. The instructors told them that these were the only “important” part of the exam. He said the instructors told them, “Kaya na ninyo ’yung iba.”
Bautista was aware that many of the instructors of Pentagon had at one time or another been members of the PRC. Sometimes students found the answer to a question hard to accept or understand, so they asked the instructors to explain. Each time this happened the instructor queried would say “Basta, ’yan ang sagot,” leaving no room for argument or more queries.
PRC connections
Bautista recalls that the reviewees and sometimes instructors would “joke around, saying that they had connections at the PRC so if they said ‘lalabas to sa exam” lalabas talaga. Nag-joke sila na ‘nananaginip sila ng sabay-sabay’ as to what would actually come out in the exam.”
Continue reading on : http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/oct/29/yehey/top_stories/20061029top5.html
80 thousand? review sa kaplan? oh come on! halatang nagsisinungaling ka dennis bautista! i myself reviewed at kaplan! at wala pang 25k ang tuition na binayaran ko no! wala kang alam gawin kundi magyabang! hindi ka credible!
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:15 AM
ano to?... biography ni dennis bautista?... do we really want to know him?... another way to sell the paper nanaman ito using the time and tested method of INTRIGA...
UP NEXT!!! BIOGRAPHY NINA DIONISIO AND MADEJA!!!
just let me get my barf bag first...
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:15 AM
HAHAHA!!!... BAKA DENNIS KAYA KA BUMAGSAK KASI PAG SINABI NUNG REVIEWER YUN ANG SAGOT YUN NA LANG RIN ANG ALAM MO...
DI NAMAN LAGI TAMA ANG REVIEWER. SIGURO NGA NAKAPAG-CONTRIBUTE SILA SA TEST BANK NG EXAMS OR TUMULONG SA BOARD MEMBERS PERO IT'S A LONG SHOT NA SA LAHAT NG QUESTIONS, YUNG BINIGAY OR KINONTRIBUTE NILA ANG MAILAGAY SA ACTUAL EXAMS.
KELANGAN MO PA RING MAG-ARAL DUDE!!! IN THE END IKAW AT UTAK MO ANG MAG-EEXAM HINDI YUNG REVIEWER.
MASMARAMI SA NAG-EXAM THIS JUNE ANG PUMASA WITHOUT THE LEAK DUDE!!! IKAW NA MAY LEAK DI PUMASA!!! WHAT DOES THAT REALLY SAY ABOUT YOU MR.DON BOSCO-SCHOLAR-STUDENT LEADER-IDEALIST?
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:33 AM
Scholar? Leader idealist? Kung sino man ang author ng article na yan dapat gumawa man lang ng kaunting research. Kung totoo ba talaga. Sa PCHS, hindi nga yan nagiging leader. Dennis Bautista can not even articulate well in the class if there were some discussions.
80 thousand for kaplan review? That's a big lie.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:43 AM
Mr. Pennis Bati...sta is trying to project his accordingly clean images to win support in order to turn the events in their favor. Obviously, he is now trying and seeking symphaty by way of showing he is from a very respectfull family so that trust may once again return in his favor...
Huwag mo na kaming bolahin !!!!
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:56 PM
Kahit isang sakong leakage kung hindi mo naman pag-aaralan eh hindi ka rin papasa. Besides, ang leakage ay hindi ka tiyak kung totoo o hindi...
Kung nag-aral ka at hindi ka naman umasa sa leakage, with or without leakage ay papasa ka kasi nga pinag-aralan mo di ba?
Kung hindi ka naman nag-aral at doon ka lang sa leakage, eh sorry ka na lang...
Kaya dito ang nag-aral ay siya talagang pumasa di ba!!!!!
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:59 PM
Ano kamo?Dennis Bautista wanted to become a priest?Naku,baka pag iniharap sya kay Pope Benedict XVI,eh ndi sya tanggapin n maging pari dahil s mga kasinungalingan nya.Imagine,buhay p siya eh,sinusunog n ang kaluluwa nya sa impiyerno.
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:19 PM
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
SI DENNIS BAUTISTA?! IDEALIST?!
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
BAKA NAGING IDEALIST LANG AFTER SIYA BUMAGSAK INSPITE OF GETTING LEAKAGE FROM THE THREE REVIEW CENTERS!
MANILA TIMES! WHAT WILL YOU THINK OF NEXT? PARA KAYONG SI KORINA SANCHEZ, AH!
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:43 PM
Don Bosco ka??? Bigla bumaba tingin ko sa Don Bosco a...priest pa kamo? mahiya ka.
1. 80 thousand sa Kaplan? loko loko ka ba e Kaplan ako! Di ko kaya magbayad ng 80K.
2. Pasado daw sya sabi nya sa senate! pucha bagsak pala ang gago.
3. Di daw nya kilala si Cordero personally. Tapos biglang pinopormahan daw sya sa office nito.
napaka CREDIBLE talaga! TIE na kayo ni Korina Sanchez!
Unang una, 3 na nga Review Center mo! Inress, Gapuz, at Pentagon! BAGSAK KA PA. Ayan napapala mo...leakage lang ang alam mo! Kahit sa bagong passers di pa napasali pangalan mo. ANG BOBO MO!
ECE nung college? SAAN? Engineer ba yan?
Grabe, INSEKTO NA TINGIN SAYO.
Mag-iba ka na ng career...imposible ka ng maging nurse kahit saan pang parte ng mundo. DUDA na ang buong mundo sa credibility mo. The world will not get you.
SINUNGALING KA E. Dude, hanggang dyan ka na lang.
ANG LAKI NG KARMA MO! GOODLUCK
Magsama kayo nina Brant! pang summa utak nyo!
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:57 AM
hoy dennis ano ang piangsasabi mo. kng totoo n ng final coaching ka sa gapuz mla halatang nagsisinungaling ka kasi sb mo may powerpoint kmi ng leakage s final coaching, ano yun may third eye ka at ikaw lng ang nakakita? nandun aq nung final coaching bakit wla aq nakita n powerpoint n sina sabi mo?dun aq ng final coaching wla aq nkta o nkuha na 18 pages na yan.hoy dennis 2migil kn at kung aq s iu mag pa lie detector test k kaysa manira ka ng buhay ng ibang tao.tatlong rvw ctr kn nga nakuha mo na lahat ng leakage bakit bumagsak kp?nagpapatunay lng yan n ang tao n ng aral, papasa tlg at d lng mg rely s leakage.500 items ang exam, 110 lng ang ngleak.kailangan mo ipasa ang 390 muna at iyon ay kng ng aral k.
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:45 PM
68.20% ang grade ni DENNIS BAUTISTA SA NLE!
WALA SA PUSO NYA ANG PAG-NA-NURSING...
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:27 PM
HALF TRUTH IS NOT TRUTH AT ALL DENNIS BAUTISTA...
BAKIT DI MO AMININ NA U REVIEWED IN THOSE 3 REVIEW CENTERS BECAUSE U WERE BANKING OF PASSING THE NLE FROM LEAKAGES FROM THESE 3 REVIEW CENTERS... IT'S SO OBVIOUS E... KASI SA INRESS & GAPUZ, FINAL COACHING LANG INATTENDAN MO...
U PROMISED UR FRIENDS TO SHARE LEAKAGES FROM GAPUZ BUT YOU WERE DISAPPOINTED COZ THE ALLEGED LEAKAGES THAT GAPUZ HAD WAS THE SAME LEAKAGE THAT INRESS HAD KAYA DI MO SILA SINIPUT NUNG SAT NITE BEFORE NLE DAY...
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:31 PM
CGURO MABAIT KA... DENNIS BAUTISTA...
BUT YOU CAN NOT BLAME OTHER PEOPLE FOR YOUR FAILURES... YOU SHOULD NOT BLAME OTHER PEOPLE FOR YOUR FAILURES...
AND YOU SHOULD HAVE NOT DRAGGED THE INNOCENT PASSER & FLUNKERS ALIKE IN THIS ISSUE...
IT IS YOUR FIGHT... BUT NOT OURS...
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:36 PM
You deserve what's happening to you now pareng dennis...time to reap the seeds you sowed...di ka nag isip kasi wala kang isip talaga...NASAAN NA ANG MGA TAONG NAGBUYO SA IYO NA MAG-INGAY AT MAGTURO NANG MAGTURO NG MGA TAONG IDINAMAY MO SA DRAMA NG BUHAY MO?...at the end of the day you'll be fighting ALONE...at kaming pinerwesyo mo we'll have our own day of reckoning samantalang ikaw will be thrown into the abyss of oblivion...ANO ANG NAPALA ? WALA...BEEEHH!!!...Remember the universal law of karma...well pasado ka pa rin namang mag call boy sa mga gay bars...dun ka bagay!
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:18 AM
Ano ba ang tama Nagpapa-Pogi or nagpapa-beauty para ka Dennis Bautista aka, (PENNIS BATI----STA)
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:26 AM
ang IDEALIST nag-aaral, hinde umaasa sa leakage!
tsaka kung mabuti talaga ang hangarin mo at talagang prepared ka to take NLE bakit kailangan 3 review centers ang pinasukan mo????
tsaka dapat di mo na inintay lumabas ang result ng NLE, dapat nung first day pa lang, last 11 June 2006, nakosensya ka na na may alam ka sa LEAKAGE, at nag-file ng complaint regarding leakage!!!
kaya nga we wonder, kung pumasa ba si mr. bautista sa NLE ay mag-iingay din kaya siya tulad ng ginagawa nya ngayon????
YOU'RE A FAKE!!!
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:49 PM