fact: vernacular schools can never be closed.

factr: however we can make kebangsaan school more attractive than vernacular schools ie better educators, management, facilities and a more competitive syllabi. take away skin colour and religion, let the best educator educate our children. let the best and competitive education system mold our children to their best potential!

question is: does the government REALLY wants critical thinking young adults (the future of Maklaysia) or they prefer drones that will do what is told, believe what is spoken and incapable to realise their full potential?

that is the reason i think why our education system produces large batches or drones all lacking inner depth and actualization. just ask your child he/she wants to score all A’s, or do he/she learn because he/she enjoys learning?

Kalau dia Melayu sekalipun tetapi tidak mengucapkan dua kalimah syahadah maka SAYA AKAN TOLAK tak kira lah dia calon parti PAS, UMNO, MIC, DAP, MCA, PKR, etc.

Saya bersetuju dengan konsep satu sekolah. No more SRA, Sekolah Cina, Tamil, etc. etc. Sepatutnya semua elemen yang wujud didalam sistem persekolahan yang ada sekarang diseragamkan dan dikumpulkan didalam satu sistem persekolahan yang jitu dan dapat melahirkan rakyat malaysia yang bersatu padu dan bersedia mengorbankan dirinya untuk negara.

I tend to believe that the solution to the sekolah agama rakyat has to be studied further. The vernacular schools and the national schools has one thing in common – in general the curriculum taught are more or less the same. Sekolah Agama Rakyats have a totally different curriculum hence some might say that it is best to leave this as a separate school `stream’. This is similar to the current strategy in which we have the separate sekolah menengah tekniks as they have a different curriculum then the rest of the national schools.

all education must be within our national schools!!

Once the level of national type schools have been strengthened, slowly encourage conversion of vernacular type schools to national type schools within a set timeframe. Many of us here should support this move as it is inline with the concept of Malaysian Malaysia (like DAP espouses). If we only talk but are not willing to make this bold move, then we are indeed hypocrites!

Once we all get educated in the same system, only then can we all call ourselves united and achieve true unity!

i personally feel that we do not have to abolish these vernacular schools, but instead we have to improve the standard and quality of the Kebangsaan school. once the standard (perceived or otherwise) of the kebangsaan schools are higher than the rest, automatically the parents will flock to the kebangsaan school thus rendering the vernacular school less attractive.

but the question is, can the kebangsaan school be revamped and do we have the political muscle to revamp it? seems to me, that the kebangsaan schools have more problems in terms of quality of teachers, truancy amongst students and also red tape.

it all boils down to the self sacrifice of everybody for the good of the country.

vernacular school is the cause of disunity??

the secondary school i went to had 50% chinese, 30% malays, and 20% indians. it was public and it was named after a saint. each grade has about 10 classes, ranked, with each an avg of 35 students. guess which race perpetually made up the numbers in the last 4 classes of each grade level?? bingo.

in my 3 years there, i saw the students segregated themselves based on their skin color, perhaps it was as much to do with the perceived “smartness” of themselves? btw, the teachers did their own segregation..

that was in the early 90s. the school graduated many who later became doctors, lawyers, educators, and successful corporate people both in and outside of malaysia. the school today has a malay name, and has twice as many malay teachers and 80% of the students.

sad.

there, you said it. we malays let you fly a sukhoi once in a while because we’re nice, not because you’re most qualified! btw, we’re not thanking you for your tax dollars paying for our toys!

speaking of sukhoi, those are b-grade machines. don’t be so proud. ur uncles in umno only get to buy these because they can be had much easier by regimes with shady dealings. like the eurocopters.

please cintanegara, don’t flatter your kind thinking Yaacob, with his engr. degree deserves to be a head honcho. o wait, yeah, that IS a BIG deal for your kind. in that case, bravo! good job!

PUHhleeeez..

and the thing about sovereignty, that was satirical speak for goodness sakes!

I stand by my position that vernacular schools are one of the main reasons of disunity in this country. Can you confidently say that when NEP is removed that all the races will be united even when we are educated and conditioned in different type of schools? You must be a very ignorant person if you answer yes. I am not saying that the improper implementation of NEP is not causing any unhappiness, but it is a small cause of disunity compared to the segmented education system we have!

And many non-Bumis like you are so blinded, ignorant and hypocritical when you fault NEP for causing disunity when on the other hand you blindly support the vernacular schools!!!

,,,,As long as UMNO the barbarians still in power, it will never happen.

To make it happen, first UMNO must be removed

if constructive critique and discussion is not to your liking… well to bad!

btw i voted PAS for the first time in my life, and i NEVER regretted it once after the election! its YOUR vote, dont blame others for YOUR decision. be more responsible.

I voted for DAP. Although I am not of the Malaysia’s chinese ethnic origin but all I wanted to see is UNITY. . Do you like watching people of Malaysia here fighting among each other in your blog? Is this your actual intention? While you could be smiling away sipping your coffee?

Then you are not the leader that we have been looking for.

cheers