Unexpected trouble

February 23, 2010








It is really a teacher’s responsibility to take good care of his pupils especially when they are inside the school premises. However, there are instances wherein troubles may happen beyond your limitation. Here is how I felt it this afternoon.

The bell rang. It was almost 1:30 pm, a sign of start for the afternoon class. When I was walking at the corridor going to my room, a student of mine run towards me and told me, “Sir, Judy Ann was stroke.”

I thought, it was a heart attack especially when the boy told me that the little girl couldn’t move his body. So, I run fast.

When I entered the room, everyone was bothered by the incident. With her fingers in her hands and feet strongly crossed together, paralleled and hard arms, and unbendable body; she was crying when I entered the room. She couldn’t move but she can still talk. I don’t know what to do since it was the very first time to encounter such kind of incident.

When I asked her what happen, she told me that she got upset with Christian, her classmate, for insulting her as ‘pokpok’. When I asked Christian and he depended himself. She hasn’t told me whether Christian hurt her. She kept on telling me, “He always get me angry.”

More minutes had passed yet she couldn’t still move her hands. I found out that she couldn’t totally move her body. Being worried about her condition, I looked for Sir Denido to ask for help. We massaged her body thinking that she had experienced such body stroke because of too much anger. But then, nothing got better.

So, we carried her and ride in a padyak to go to the Municipal Health Clinic. For so many padyakers who must come across our way, we found an old man. So, I was gone pushing the vehicle just for the vehicle to move faster; or else, we’re like lovers walking in a blue moon.

When we were across the street, Judy Ann called out, “Papa, papa…” pointing her father with her two paralleled hands. Imagine a zombie. It was quite comical, since I was laughing that time. I don’t know her father. She was pointing her two hands at the group of people near the store. Hence, I couldn’t be able to distinguish who was her father among those men.

We parked for a while. Of course, only the father would approach his daughter. After finding him, he rode together making me a kargador pushing two sacks of rice.

Moving forward, we were then at the Milaor Municipal Clinic. The health workers assisted us. They said that it is because of too much anger that made Judy Ann’s heart stopped pumping blood. One of the nurses find out that her diaphragm had contracted and it became harder when she continued crying. They pampered her. After drinking water, she was laid upside down. Finally, she can slowly move her hands.


I was seating at the visitor’s area. After a while, many sexy girls came in and seated beside me making me totally surrounded with angels. Hehehe. One thing I had noticed was the short clothes they wore and their dark make-up. Everybody was chasing me. Later, I found out that they were prostitutes required to have a check-up if they have already AIDS.

When Sir Denido got outside, he saw me with those Magdalenas. Then, he told me that we have to leave and go back to school. He was laughing not only because of the striking incident but also to the girls I had seated with at the Clinic.

When I went back to school, everybody intrigued me with what happened to us, especially to Judy Ann, at the clinic.

The following day, a mother was looking for the Grade VI-A class adviser. Since Ma’am Claro was still on-leave, I was the one who talked with Judy Ann’s mom.

Then, I found out that we were wrong, even those nurses at the Clinic. We thought it was from too much tense and anger that made her paralyzed. It was because Judy Ann never told us the real reason. Christian scolded her by calling her ‘pokpok’ that forced her to beat him. Afterward, he hit back by striking her abdomen. This made her paralyzed.

Because of this, I immediately told Sir Denido about this. As we have decided, we asked him to tell his mother to come to school. However, his mother or even his grandmother never went to school for a conference. Hence, Ma’am Claro told him that she will give his report card only if his mother will come to school.

In the middle of March, no family member had ever come to school and has a conference with Ma’am Claro.

What I have learned this time is that we can not make sure that the room may be a safe place for the children, violence may occur and that, we have to deal and be ready for this circumstance.