"HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY"

Banner in front the Holy Spirit Academy in Laoag City

    It would have been better for President Aquino--not Congress--to tell the lawmakers, not them, (for they have not been known for their honesty), to make this resolution. Anyway, the public schools in my elementary days in Laoag were teaching this policy then. It was posted in several places inside the classroom of my youth at the old wooden two-storey Flor Building where the Bo.#2 Elementary School was housed. It could have been inculcated forever in the mind of this blogger for he would not forget the name of the teacher who taught her pupils this policy--Mrs. Gliceria Datoc, a plump woman who always wore black. She kept reminding us each time there was an infraction in class,"Honesty is the best policy." And each time she called me to her office.  (I was number one in her class, hehe.) 

The blogger thumbs up with Dr. Godofredo S. Reyes in their Suso, Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur home, where the                 unfinished house of  Ilokano writers (right) is located. The painted concrete fence is part of the enclosure of the house of Mr. Brigido Daproza who belongs to an Ilokano writing group in Hawaii. If the reader can open my other blog,  he or she can read the whole story above the picture.

     Decades later, I would take a writer to task and excoriate Ms. Elizabeth Madarang Raquel, a high education official in Ilocos Norte, about what they were supposed to teach in the grades. (Is her writing group honest? Apay nga agingga ita nabaybay-an ti patta nga inrugida idiay Suso, Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur? Mano a talaga ti naur-or a kuarta para iti balay dagiti mannurat? Mano ti nagasto iti pannakaipatakderna? Maipapan kadagitoy, kinuna ni Dr. Dedicacion-Reyes, balo daydi Apo Godo Reyes, namin-13 a nagpresidente iti gunglo dagiti mannurat,  iti pannakiuman ti blogger kenkuana, "Bulok ti gunglo, Peter." Apay nga imbagana ti kasdiay?)
    Mrs. Raquel, a writer in Iluko, has used the name of another person in an article to malign Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili, a fellow Ilokano, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.