Amid the criticisms he’s receiving on social media after scolding a teacher in his program, journalist Raffy Tulfo found an ally from one of the families he helped.

On his Facebook post, Christian Butal expressed his support to Tulfo, believing that the journalist is going to survive the controversy.

As being one of the people who received help from Tulfo, Butal said that he saw how stressful is the work of the journalist who’s talking to hundreds of complainants every day.

“Kaya mo yan Idol Raffy! I just learned earlier na nabash ka pala. I watched part 1 and 2 just this morning po and I know how stressful your life is in the studio,” Butal said.

“I’ve seen it on cam and off cam. Thousands of people waiting outside your studio and it’s normal that we make rush decisions but that doesn’t define our personality and whole-being,” he added.

Butal is confident that the people would not forget the good deeds committed by Tulfo.

“What is important is that you were able to learn from it and was able to do the right thing in a timely manner. The nation will not forget how many people you’ve helped already just because of this mistake,” he remarked.

The netizen also pointed out the importance of the teachers and discipline.

According to him, he also experienced being ordered to be out of the classes.

Butal said that because of receiving disciplinary actions, he learned how to be resourceful and he used what he learned from the school to prove the innocence of his father by searching for CCTV footage of the said incident.

“I salute all the teachers who are hardworking. I experienced being disciplined before by my elementary teacher. Na palabas na din ako dati kasi di ko nagawa assignment ko noon dahil wala ng space notebook ko at wala pambiling notebook,” he said.

“I wouldn’t realize na marami pang ibang paraan kung pinagbigyan lang ako ni teacher at hindi nadisiplina. Now, I grown up resourceful and that’s because of their discipline (kaya nahanap ko yung cctv) . My parents disciplined me before and it’s worse than my teachers but I love it, it made me who am I today,” he added.

He also urged the people not to criticize the complainants who pushed for the revocation of the license of the teacher.

“Please don’t bash the family of the kid kasi lahat naman tayo ganun mararamdaman lalo na kung may bata tayo at ganyan ang nangyari normal lang yun,” he said.

“Also we have to accept the fact that discipline cannot be earned in an easy way it’s always the hard way. Like diamonds bago naging dyamante yan naging bato muna yan at nag undergo ng mahabang process at hindi yun madali,” he added.

Christian is the son of Alexander Butal, the 53-year old driver who got mobbed after being accused of touching a lady in a jeep, but because of the help of the show, it was proven that the latter is innocent.

Several netizens also noticed Christian during the show because of being calm and trying to give advice to his father.

Tulfo is receiving criticisms after he agreed with the complainants to revoke the license of teacher Melinda Limjuco.

Millions of netizens expressed their support to Limjuco. The issue even catches the attention of several politicians and the Department of Education.

After receiving 287,000 dislikes on Youtube and a tremendous amount of criticisms on other social media platforms, journalist Raffy Tulfo apologized to the netizens after he pushed the revocation of the license of a teacher who received a complaint in his show.

A few days ago, Tulfo received criticisms after he scolded teacher Melita Limjuco in his show after the latter was caught ordering the child of the complainant to sit outside their classroom.

“I am going to listen to the netizens, kasi nga naman kung wala yung mga netizens eh wala din tayong show, so having said that I guess, ang gagawin ko nalang ay etong si teacher at itong parent ng bata ay pagbabatiin ko nalang,” Tulfo said.

“May point nga naman sila na very harsh yung desisyon na pag-resignin yung teacher, although si teacher, she really admitted na meron siyang pagkakasala doon,” he added.

According to Tulfo, he would agree to the netizens not to revoke the license of the teacher. However, he insisted that Limjuco should be sanctioned for what she did.

Later on, Tulfo talked to complainant Rosemil Edroso, the mother of the child whom Limjuco punished.

He urged Edroso to accept the apology of Limjuco and retract their intention to remove the license of the teacher.

“Para sa akin naman po, kung ang Diyos ay nakakapag patawad, tayo pa kaya, nag apologize naman po si teacher on air, doon pa lamang po ay nagpakumbaba na siya, sana po ay nakabawas na po ito ng sama ng loob niyo,” Tulfo told Edroso.

“So okay lang po ba sa inyo na pagbabatiin ko nalang kayo ma’am?” he added.

However, Edroso complained that they also received a mass amount of criticisms on social media and some people even made a fake account to make fun of them.

Despite that, Tulfo is successful in convincing the complainant to stop pushing the revocation of the license of Limjuco after he pointed out the importance of the netizens, and also narrated that he also experienced being disciplined by his teachers.

Now, Edroso is only asking for another public apology from the teacher next week.

“I think it’s a win-win solution, nanalo po kayo at nakakuha ng hustisya, nanalo rin po yung mga netizens sa kanilang gustong mangyari. Sana ma’am maintindihan niyo tong sinasabi ko,” he said.

Before the episode ends, Tulfo said that he welcomes the criticisms from the netizens.

“Okay lang yun, hindi niyo nagustuhan yung desisyon ko, hindi niyo nagustuhan yung desisyon ko, okay lang po yun punahin ninyo ako, tao lang naman ako, hindi naman ako perpekto,” he said.

He then shared to the netizens how tiring his job is in handling Raffy Tulfo in Action.

“This is the time na sabihin ko sa mga netizens, ano bang kalagayan ko diyan sa ating programa. Hindi po madali ang ginagawa ko po at ginagawa ng mga tao, daan daang katao po ang gustong makipag usap sa akin every single day,” he said.

“By the time na pag dating po ng hapon, pagod na pagod na ko, kung minsan bago palang ako maisalang sa tanghali yung isang problema, pagod na ko, kasi may tinatawag na off-air na pagi-interview,” he added.

A politician from Palawan catches the attention of the netizens after he was spotted working even if there’s a huge hole in the shorts he’s wearing.

On a Facebook post, netizen Nath Hortilliano praised Narra, Palawan Mayor Gerandy B. Danao for kept continuing serving the people despite her appearance.

It can be shown that Mayor Danao is helping his men to clean the mess left by a fallen tree, in the other photos, it can be seen that the politician is talking to some residents.

“Butas ang shorts, pero nagta-trabaho para sa bayan ng Narra. Hindi katulad ng iba diyan, or ng mga tao tauhan mo diyan, puro lang kayo porma, puro lang kayo puna at paninira. Mag serbisyo kayo para sa tao, hindi ‘yung kayo ang sini-serbisyuhan,” Hortillano said.

As of writing the post already reached hundreds of shares and positive comments on social media.

“Talagang walang pera ang mayor,butas na butas ang bulsa,,pati t shirt wala ng pambili,,ok yan brad patuloy mo lang ang magandang gawain para sa bayan,,kahit ano pa sabihin nila saiyo,” netizen Tigs Danao said.

“Good Job Yorme Naoda, Ganyang mga Yorme ang hinahangaan ng mga tao… Good Luck!” Noel Cabitac remarked.

It can be remembered that Danao has gone viral after the election as he ended 30-years political domination of the Demaala family in Narra.

Mayor Danao together with Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez

According to reports, Danao is taking care of 34 goats and doing fishing for a living.

During the campaign period, he relied on word of mouth from the people who campaigned for him.

Journalist Raffy Tulfo is one of the most popular people on social media right now and already gained millions of fans because of his public service program.

While most of the videos of Raffy Tulfo gained positive comments on social media, there’s an episode on his Youtube channel which uploaded three days ago has received 100,000 dislikes as of writing.

The journalist is being criticized now for scolding a teacher who’s already working for three decades after someone complained about her way of disciplining her students.

Complainants Salve Banez, and Rosemil Edroso went to Raffy Tulfo to complain about the actions of teacher Melita Limjuco.

Banez claimed that Limjuco embarrassed her grandchild many times, saying that the teacher’s way of disciplining her student is very wrong.

The complainant narrated that Limjuco let her grandchild stay out of their classroom as punishment for not returning the card they borrowed.

There’s also a CCTV footage showing how Limjuco ordered the child to sit outside their classroom.

“Gusto ko lang ay mabigyan siya ng leksyon, dahil ang ginawa niya sa apo ko ay hindi makatarungan, kasi malaki ng impact non sa apo ko, ang sipag niya pumasok, matalinong bata…” Banez said.

Later on, Limjuco defended herself saying that she doesn’t intend to embarrass the child, but only wanted to discipline him.

However, Tulfo argued that Limjuco really meant to embarrass the child and she could face charges for what she did.

“Yung paglabas mo dala dala mo yung upuan niya at ibinagsak mo pa yung upuan, at galit na galit ka, nandoon pa yung facial expression mo at pagkatapos sabay pasok mo at yung bata pinabayaan mong nakaupo doon at pinabayaan mo siyang mapahiya sa kanyang kapwa mga estudyante,” Tulfo told Limjuco.

Limjuco made an apology to Banez for what she did to their grandchild, insisting that she didn’t mean to traumatize her student.

Banez didn’t accept the apology of Limjuco while Tulfo warned the teacher that she’s going to face charges.

“Hihingi ka sakin ng sorry? no sorry,” Banez said.

“Parang awa niyo na po, ako na nga po ang humihingi ng sorry, humihingi po ako ng tawad, please po,” Limjuco responded.

Meanwhile, the mother of the child, Rosemil Edroso said that she only wanted to remove the teaching license of Limjuco.

Before the episode ends, Tulfo invited the teacher to their action center so they could talk personally with the complainants.

The video gained a tremendous amount of negative comments from the netizens who defended the teacher and criticized Tulfo for siding with the complainants.

Several social media users even urged netizens to dislike the said video of Raffy Tulfo.

“Naging estudyante rin ako. Pinahiya, pinatayo ng matagal, pinalabas sa klase, pinatilyahan, nginudngod pa nga ako sa pisara nung di ako makasagot sa aralin sa Math.  At kung makakasalubong ko ang mga dati kong guro. Wala ako ibang sasabihin kundi salamat. Dahil sa kanila, mas matatag ako ngayon,” netizen Joshua Capul said.

“Isa na namang guro ang nawalan ng trabaho. Pinaka disappointing na episode ng Tulfo,” Netizen Migs Reyes remarked.

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano took a swipe against Senate Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon and former President Benigno Aquino III after they questioned the spending of the government for the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) games.

In a press conference in Tarlac, Cayetano questioned why the opposition are questioning a cauldron built by the current administration while in the past they didn’t complain when the Aquino administration asked for P10-B for the APEC Summit in Manila in 2015.

“Ang sinasabi ko lang yung hypocrisy na nung P10 billion ang hiningi nila sa Kongreso, para sa APEC, [sabi nila] para sa bayan ito, representasyon ito, karangalan ito. We have to spend on known artists and singers. We have to serve good food para maganda representasyon,” Cayetano who’s also the PH Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee Chairman said.

“‘Yun nakita nila at justified nila pero yung P50-million na priceless work of art na forever pagmamay-ari ng gobyerno, sasabihin nila sana 50 classrooms na lang?,” he added.

Cayetano reminded the opposition Senator that his political allies, including Aquino, are the reason why there’s a shortage of classrooms in the country right now.

According to Cayetano, the K-12 program pushed by the Aquino administration resulted in the classroom shortage.

“Senator Drilon forgot, it’s their administration na nag pilit ng K-12 kaya nagkulang ulit yung classroom, I know because there are only two senators objected, me and Senator Trillanes,” Cayetano said.

“So don’t talk to me about classrooms because you created the classroom shortage, dapat we’re on track na maging 40-45 (students) per classroom kung hindi muna natin pinilit yung k-12,” he added.

Cayetano revealed that they’re asking for five more years before implementing the K-12 to avoid the shortage of classroom, however, the former administration still pushed it.

The lawmaker also expressed his disappointment with the criticisms received by SEA games especially from former President Aquino who’s a resident of Tarlac, saying that the “crab mentality” of the Filipinos is being shown again.

“I was expecting na sasabihin niya (Aquino) na may issues, pag-usapan natin later pero proud kaming na dito itinayo sa Tarlac,” Cayetano said.

“Akala nila SEA Games, seafood e. Kaya puro crab mentality ang inaabot natin e,” he added.

Mayor Isko Moreno gave a reward to the Manila Traffic And Parking Bureau (MTPB) enforcer, who put his life in danger after he encountered an erring driver on November 15.

In a CCTV footage, it can be seen that MTPB member Adrian Lim was dragged by the suspect, Orlando Ricardo Jr., using his car after he refused to accept the traffic ticket that the enforcer was trying to give him.

Ricardo Jr. was only supposed to pay P500 pesos for disregarding lane.

A few days after the incident, Moreno invited Lim at the flag ceremony to present him to the Manilenyos and also to reward him for his courage to perform his duty.

It can be remembered that Lim was only a job order worker who receiving 6,000 monthly, so Moreno decided to give him a permanent occupation.

“Dahil ikaw ay mabuti sa iyong tungkulin, katulad ng iba, permanent employee ka na,” Moreno told Lim.

Moreno also praised Lim for his courage, saying that if he’s a parent of the enforcer, he would be very proud.

Lim couldn’t hide his tears while listening to the Mayor.

“Dapat tularan eto, mamaya pag umulan doon ka sa gitna (ng kalsada) para dumami ka,” he said.

After getting a permanent job, Lim is expected to receive a higher salary and benefits.