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MANILA, Philippines – The University of the East (UE) released a letter on Monday, February 22, saying that its Board of Trustees “unanimously resolved to approve the dismissal of the high school students who were involved in the Philippine flag-defiling video” that made rounds earlier this month.
The video, which went viral around February 9, showed a student with a Philippine flag on a stick, using it to clean the floor of a classroom.
Dr Ester Albano Garcia, UE’s President and Chief Academic Officer, said in the statement that the students were dismissed “in view of the gravity of their infraction,” with the act said to be an affront to the UE community and to the ideals and traditions of the country.
The statement went on to say: “We in the University of the East shall endeavor to strengthen activities inculcating respect to the Philippine flag, the anthem, and other national symbols, and shall implement measures to monitor the strict compliance and observance of the Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines by our students and members of our academic and non-academic personnel.”
An official statement from the University of the East, February 22, 2016: pic.twitter.com/8fydoZcXk1
— UE Univ. of the East (@Official_UE) February 22, 2016
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