This is something disturbing: A Mass Communication graduate in a commencement exercise in Cavite heckled Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In the same graduation rites, protesters were positioned at the row of chairs meant for the parents and relatives of the graduating students.

There is no justification for such behavior. Even if GMA is Fake or not, that was conduct unbecoming of a supposedly learned person. That was plain disrespect not just to the guest speaker but also to the other graduates, parents and the educational institution.

The end does not justify the means. This is not meant to slight the agent/s of the action. It is the act that was wrong and should be shunned.

That was not activism. That was not idealism. That was plain rudeness (whether GMA deserved it or otherwise). And that was not a Filipino trait.

It is ok to disagree. It is ok to protest. It is one’s right. But one’s right is not absolute. And in any right is a corresponding responsibility.

There is a right place and a right time for such things. If we want change in our country, let us do something about it but PLEASE let us do it RIGHT.

We ALREADY have failing proficiency in English, Math, Science, and Filipino. And now even Values? Is this the path we would like the youth to take?

Was George Bernard Shaw right to quote that "Youth is Wasted on the Young?"

I still believe otherwise. I still hope.