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On April 2, 2011, I delivered a speech before the graduates of ECRMNHS batch 2011.  And one of the highlights of my speech is the part that I am begging for the creation of an alumni association.  I also mentioned that my batch will fully support this.

 Yet on December 29, 2011, my batch has no representative during the school’s alumni homecoming.

 This is an irony that I can expertly explain.

 The reason why I did not push for the attendance of my batchmates, and the reason I myself did not attend the said event is due to this main reason: I don’t want politics to enter into this noble cause.  Politicians have no other intentions but to gain publicity. I want purely good intentions.

 I received unconfirmed stories about the event in 2010 where the first alumni homecoming did not push through because the incumbent public official did not approve to it.  The supposedly “first” homecoming is being planned and coordinated by a rival family.  And now, the person who initiated the 2011 homecoming is the same person who did not approve to it way back in 2010.  Politics entered the scene.  And I don’t like it.

 Why then, did I say that I will fully support the creation of an alumni association, yet I did not attend the alumni homecoming when such association will be organized?

 My support is conditional.  And the condition is that it should be the teachers of ECRMNHS, who are also alumni of the school that should initiate its organization.  I want politicians to be clearly out of the picture.  The organization is best lead by professionals who know what is really needed for the best interest of the students, the alma mater and the community, not by politicians whose only goal is its name immortalized in structures that they will definitely push for.  I want a noble organization, whose aim is not self-glorification, but to truly help uplift the regretful state of the school.

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