Teacher works on the side as labandera

MA’AM AS LAuNDRYWOMAN. A schoolteacher works on weekends as a laundrywoman for a rich neighbor to augment her income and be able to send two daughters to a private school. A colleague has advised her to just send her girls to a public school so she could stop being a labandera which her fellow teachers agree doesn’t speak well of her being a schoolteacher.

“KAPRITSO”. But this teacher confided to a friend that her two girls — both in high school — have made it clear to her that they would stop schooling if they would be forced to study in a public school. “Mga asyosa kaayo,” said the friend. “Paantuson ang ilang inahan nga biyuda tungod lang sa ilang kapritso.” She also called her teacher-friend “Inahan sa kanunay’ng panabang.”