Principal manhandles boy, gets suspended
CEBU CITY-A principal of a public school in Carcar City in southern Cebu has been ordered suspended for a month for pushing a Grade 6 pupil who came in late for a school activity in 2014.
The Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas found Mary Jane Powao, principal of Carcar Elementary School in Carcar City, about 40.3 km south of here, guilty of simple misconduct.
The antigraft office ordered the director of the Department of Education in Central Visayas to enforce the penalty on Powao.
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In a complaint, the boy said he went home with a classmate after cleaning the school grounds.
The boy said Powao got angry when he and his classmates arrived late for a National Admissions Test event. Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer Visayas
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