Are you a Rule Slave?

The Kesy Gang, Vanguards and Guardians of the Rules!

As I make my students stand straight when lining up, pray loud and clear, and have a proper haircut, I sometimes ask myself as to why am I so keen on enforcing these rules? As we all the more enforce rules to students, some tend to be more rebellious and resistant, and it gets so frustrating on the part of the teacher. Pondering upon all of these, I remembered a wise old college professor of mine telling us that we must not follow the rules blindly, but rather, we should know the spirit behind these rules because this will free us from being slaves of the rules.

So, to the Kesy Gang, remember this:

You are being made to pray loud and clear during common prayers so that you'll learn to value praising and worshipping God together with his church. You are being made to stand straight during assemblies and when lining up so that you will learn to focus more to whoever is speaking in front. Proper haircut is being enforced so that you'll look neat, clean, and presentable to the society.

The Kesy Officers, models of following the rules...
(L-R Prince B., Euri T., Carlos, A., & Kyle G.)

There are so many rules, and each one of them has a lesson to teach. However, all of these rules have a common ground, and that is, these rules are enforced so that you'll be good Christians and honest citizens which by the way is the very vision of Don Bosco to his young people.

To my dear students, particularly to my advisory class (the Gr. 7 Kesy Gang), do not be mad at your teachers, to the principals, or to the Salesians for making you do this and do that. Surely, all of them (including me) have one thing in mind, and that is to share in the vision of Don Bosco of forming young people to be good Christians and honest citizens.

Be rule slaves no more!

Be the vanguards and guardians of the rules!