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Friday, August 11, 2006
Speak out: Unfair to nursing board examinees
By George Ursal Ruiz
It is better to leave a criminal unpunished than to punish an innocent man.
This thought immediately came to mind when I learned from the news that some officials are proposing to annul the result of the June 2006 nursing board exams and let all examinees, failed or passed, retake the examination because there was a leakage.
This is most outrageous.
For one, the leakage in the examination was not the fault of the examinees. If blame were to be attached, then deservedly this must go to the leakage source and those responsible for safeguarding the integrity of the test.
Obviously, the leakage could not have come from the examinees themselves.
And granting there was leakage, how many benefited from it? A hundred?
One thousand? Then why should the 16,000 who honestly passed be made to suffer the consequences of something they did not know about?
Indeed, nursing students who took the examination spent countless hours and sleepless nights studying, not to mention the years of toil and struggle and the thousands of pesos spent to get to this point in their life.
But the most tragic and painful part of it all is the emotional and mental trauma when the trophy of victory already in your possession is suddenly seized from your hands without any justifiable reason.
Certainly, it is unjust to castigate the good and honest along with the evil, more so if the former are more numerous than the latter.
In Genesis 18: 23-32, Abraham bargained with God to save the city of Sodom despite all the evil, if there were at least 10 good people in it.
God replied, “For the sake of ten good people, I will not destroy Sodom.”
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