By Tina Santos
Published on Page A20 of the December 2, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
A MANILA judge has denied the petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) sought by Senators Alfredo Lim and Jamby Madrigal in connection with the city government’s plan to convert two Binondo schools into a housing and commercial area.
“The court finds no compelling reason to grant the TRO,” Judge Manuel Barrios of Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 54, said in his one-page order.
The judge noted that more than 70 percent of the construction work on the school buildings and other edifices in the area where the affected students of Jose Abad Santos High School (JASHS) and Rajah Soliman High School (RSHS) will be transferred had been finished.
Barrios added that the actual transfer of the schools and the eventual demolition of the old structures would take place when the school year ends.
Last week, Lim and Madrigal had filed a declaratory relief with prayer for the issuance of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Mayor Lito Atienza, the city council and Megaworld Corporation.
The two senators asked the court to declare null and void a city council resolution authorizing Atienza to enter into an agreement evicting JASHS and RSHS from their present site in Binondo.
Another resolution, they added, would give way to Megaworld Corporation to convert the site to be vacated by the students “into a commercial complex, under the (guise) of a housing project condominium structure, (complete) with several business establishments.”
The city government had proposed the transfer of the affected students to a smaller property at the corner of Numancia and Urbiztondo Streets, in San Nicholas, also in Binondo, one kilometer away from the schools’ present site on La Chambre Street.
Lim said the transfer and conversion of the two schools would destroy the historical and cultural significance of the area, which used to be known as Cuartel Meisic.
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i am very upset for the news that my old school was been demolished because of the people wanted to make more money on it…only i can say it nakakatulog pa ba kayo ? or i think you all have no got and conscience…the history is gone all of us from abroad who was wishing to save the jose abad santos high school is gone. we lost our alma mater..sad to say that everyone involved is really really think of money and shows the world what is like the goverment is in the philippines…
Sana nga maka2log p sila ng maayos at wag silang balikan ng karma. Peace!
tskkk.tsskkk….Sayang wala na tayong mapapasyalan na Alma Mater. Kahit ilipat pa ang ABAD, iba pa rin yung memories kung saan ka nag-aral.
Hindi na rin makakatulog ang mga ganid sa IMPYERNO dahil mainit doon…hehehe..sana wag muna silang kunin ni L…!
An Open Letter to Save the Trees of JASHS
( Jose Abad Santos High School ) in Binondo
Prof. Albert Banico, MSS
Batch 91- JASHS
The JASHS trees are monuments of the remaining academic and cultural heritage of JASHS collective memories across generations during the last 50 years. I call the attention of now DENR Secretary Lito Atienza to reveal to the public, the alleged payment that was made as claimed by one security guard in the old JASHS premises to certify the cutting of trees within the premises. It was one of the oldest and biggest public school in ASIA.
I also call the attention of Mayor Alfredo Lim and especially the City Council of Manila who become enraged when a slaughter house which was owned by relatives of a city official was forced closed but who are silent in the destruction of a historical landmark and academic tower in the great City of Manila.
May media people, legislators, environmentalist, students, teachers, advocates of responsible urban renewal, patriots, students, teachers and JASHS alumni hopefully join hands to restore the remaining trees for trees are natural monuments for all generations.
Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was given a choice by President Quezon to either go with him to Australia or stay in the Philippines. Abad Santos stayed and was appointed acting President (Head) of the Commonwealth Government. The Japanese captured him in Cebu and was shot in Mindanao for his refusal to collaborate.
The trees remain to symbolize the towering pride of that heroism. Let us join hands to SAVE the Trees of Jose Abad Santos High School!
Sources:
Philippine News Articles, 2007-2008
Gleeck, Lewis, Jr., the Third Philippine Republic, New Day publisher, 1993
43rd Commencement exercise, Jose Abad Santos High School , April 14, 1991
Philippine Constitution, 1987
Abaya, Hernando, Betrayal in the Philippines , 1946
Nawasak na paaralan, alaala, kasaysayan at mga pangako… pati ba mga puno?
AS I SEE IT
Local gov’t selling school campuses
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By Neal Cruz
Inquirer
Last updated 01:21am (Mla time) 11/24/2006
Published on Page A14 of the November 24, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
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The Jose Abad Santos High School (JASHS) and Rajah Soliman High School (RSHS) stand on a property that used to be occupied by a police station called Cuartel Meisic in Binondo. They occupy about 2.5 hectares of land. The city council of Manila authorized the transfer of the title to this property to developer Megaworld Corp. The memorandum of agreement with Megaworld was signed last April 11, 2006 The two schools were supposed to be transferred to the old Namarco lot in Binondo, at the corner of Numancia and Urbiztondo streets.
The deal is illegal, according to Senators Alfredo Lim and Jamby Madrigal in a petition for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction filed in court.
In 1954, President Ramon Magsaysay, by virtue of Presidential Proclamation 46, excluded the site “from sale or settlement … reserving (it) for use of the City of Manila as sites for the Meisic Police Station, Jose Abad Santos High School, Basic Health Center, and the Office of the City Engineer.”
On Oct. 4, 2005, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued another proclamation, No. 925, declaring as a school site the old Namarco property in Binondo (corner Numancia and Urbiztondo Streets) and reserving the same for school buildings. That proclamation provided that the site shall be under the administration of the City of Manila but the administration of the school buildings shall be in coordination with the Department of Education. It also created an inter-agency committee composed of the mayor of Manila as chair and representatives from the Department of Education and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as members, to formulate the implementing rules.
Proclamation 46, the senators stressed, expressly excluded the property in question from “sale or settlement” and “reserved” the Cuartel Meisic compound as sites for JASHS and other specified government offices. Proclamation 925, on the other hand, reserved the Numancia/Urbiztondo property for the construction of school buildings.
“The scheme of the respondents — to remove JASHS and RSHS reserved by Proclamation 46 to give way to condominiums and a shopping mall — could not have been envisioned by Proclamation 925 as otherwise it could have been so stated in simple terms and there would be no need to formulate implementing rules and regulations,” the senators noted.
Moreover, the Cuartel Meisic is a historical site and, under the Constitution, it cannot be disposed of for private or commercial use. Neither can the structures on it be destroyed, without violating RA 7356. The City of Manila has no authority to transfer, by mere ordinance, the property to any party. Such transfer requires an act of the national government, either by a presidential fiat or a legislative initiative.
The agreement with Megaworld, for having violated presidential proclamations, is null and void, the two senators said.
Save the Jose Abad Santos High School and Rajah Soliman High School!
After a judge junked a TRO plea to stop the demolition of the Jose Abad Santos High School (JASHS) and Rajah Soliman High School (RSHS), two heritage schools in Binondo, it’s time to campaign again to prevent another heritage disaster of Atienzic proportions!
Senators Alfredo Lim and Jamby Madrigal had “asked the court to declare null and void a city council resolution authorizing Atienza to enter into an agreement evicting JASHS and RSHS from their present site in Binondo,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. Lim added that “the transfer and conversion of the two schools would destroy the historical and cultural significance of the area, which used to be known as Cuartel Meisic.” For the significance of the Cuartel Meisic area, check out this article.
According to article, the senators also pointed out that “another resolution would give way to Megaworld Corporation to convert the site to be vacated by the students “into a commercial complex, under the (guise) of a housing project condominium structure, (complete) with several business establishments.”
You keep blabbering about a school that was practically dead and was not suitable for children. Fred Lim said during elections that he would not allow the school to continue. However, the kids now enjoy a better school and facility.
What happened to Lim’s stand on the two schools. He knew it was the right program and a better environment for kids. He just wanted a kickback from Megaworld. That’s the main reason why he was saying that those schools were wrong.
People like you pretend to know what’s going on. Atienza was right in removing the schools from a commercial area were students would rather go to the malls than go to school.
People like you cry for change, but whenever change happens…you would always say something wrong about it. Funny, how people can pretend to be righteous but in the end look like fools!
Lim got 80 Million to stop hitting the ASHS. The one hitting the project is the same person who got the most! Can’t people be smart enough to see what’s really happening?