ORTIGOZA: How suicide bombers, radical Islamist operate

After some readers online showed their apprehension after reading my column “What if Suicide Bombers Wage Wars in Luzon, Visayas “and the bloodbath those Muslim suicide bombers can do when they started exploding those 10 to 20 kilos nails, iron balls, and other shrapnels’ TNT contained vest strapped on their body, here are some of the salient features of the book I read on how Islamist terrorists operate.

Before I expound it, I will describe first some of the names and organizations that become a major part of the book Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef but was written by Ron Brackin about the son of  a terrorist organization founder Hamas Sheikh Hassan Yousef.

Understanding Social Realities In The School

By Jamaica Hannah C. Casupang

The school setting has social realities formed by combined practices and systems of its components. This phenomenon could be observed in social situations consisting of routines, rules, and regulations that form a system of processes to maintain organization in the institution.  The students’ capability of being aware with situations and regulations in the school is evident in how they are used to dealing with the systems in their classroom, in their campus, and in their social groups. As students understand these traditions and situations in the school environment, they learn how to apply these in other aspects of their lives.

As time goes by, students form their social behavior in the form of “scripts,” which they use as routines when interacting with different situations in their environment. These scripts can be characterized as their default comprehension or normal response to the happenings in their school, such as how students learn to line up outside of their classroom before going inside, or how students know that teachers give long exams every quarter. Understanding this phenomenon can help teachers condition students adequately and properly for students to respond to these social norms in a systematic way.

When students are accustomed to school policies and systems, they may choose to act accordingly or not. Through this social reality, the school teaches its students to be responsible for their own behavior. Being responsible when performing tasks or when accomplishing school requirements develops the student’s ability to make sound decisions, and discern possible consequences that may arise.

School setting is similar to the real world, which is the wider societal system they belong to. Incorporating the values students learn from their school and bringing it to different aspects of their lives would benefit their well-being, because through the educational institution, they learned values such as responsibility and discipline. They also learn that having a social system would sustain an organized structure that would be of advantage to the society. A rational system would create a productive environment of disciplinary patterns that would encourage learning and developing as an individual in the community. Understanding a system of an institution will guide you in understanding other social structures and prepare you to adapt to various forms of tasks and challenges in your social world.