Is there anyone foresee the problem by having the 3 in 1 concept of ‘wawasan” school?

(i) Who is the head of the wawasan school? I’m sure the G will elect “Malay” Headmaster to run the school and how he manages to implement a fair policy for all races under one roof?
One of the good examples is BN which consists of Umno, MCA, MIC. What had happened to this party and the ignorant Umno leader taking about the NEP and Ketuanan Melayu. I am sure the WAWASAN School will follow the BN way.

(ii) Space – Is there any big space need to be allocated for this type of school? Can you find any space for this type of school within every garden/area? Or do you think outskirt area can cause inconvenient to all the parent?

(iii) Location – Let say within 15km for a township is Chinese population (example; KL OUG, Happy Garden, United Garden) and how are you able to attract the Malay and Indian student from staying 15km away? Can u ask those Malay /Indian parent send their kids to school to and from 30KM away from their home? This apply to Malay population area like Bangi area, Are you asking those Chinese parent sent their kids from OUG to Bangi just because of WAWASAN school?

I think those giving this proposal is having the pig “brain” and have other motive.
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Very good example to analyze this proposal whether can work or not:

One father (like Malaysia) with 5 kids staying in a house and he treated those kids unfairly during the grow up stage due to NEP system. Can you imagine what is going to happen after the kids has grown up? They will dislike his father and giving a chance those unfortunate kids will take revenge against his father. This apply to all races.

So, how logical the closure of these schools can improve the relation among the races????

What a Stupid idea from a Minister or EX Mamak PM!!

Abolish the “NEP” will automatically enhance the race relation and not on closure of Chinese/Tamil school.

The NEP is not the only instrument the government employ in its economic agenda, certainly there is much more than that.

Any policy, just any policy, which may have good and well-intended intrinsic principles and objectives, if not enforced and implemented in accordance to proper and just procedures and methodology might result in undesirable, negative and conflicting end results. So much so that any positive achievements and intended objectives that came out of it were obscured and clouded.

Some policies could have outlived their original objectives. Some could have been extended beyond their time frame and scope. Some could have been manipulated because they were seen to be convenient and effective tools in perpetuating and perpetrating the interest and position of certain influential segments of the administration, individuals or political parties.

Of course, under such scenarios there would be gainers and losers, depending on which side you are in. The gainers would naturally (though unjustifiably and above board) defend the policies while the losers would cry foul and view them as corrupted, greedy and opportunistic or just plain irresponsible.

That’s the reason why there is a need for fair, responsible and clear minded people to look into the matter to rectify whatever weaknesses, anomalies or improprieties.

That’s the reason why there is a need for accountability, integrity, impartiality, justice, jurisprudence, and a system of check and balance to be installed to ensure a fair, equitable, and a politically, socially and economically correct administration and government.

That’s what we are all crying for.

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In Malaysia, UMNO was originally of the Malay high classes (it is debatable whether it is high class now). To win the Malays over, after Malays voters showed that high class arrogance, self-interest and corruption was not compatible with low class aspirations in the General Election of 1969, it was necessary to come up with the NEP. Malays were offered all sorts of goodies, but this was not the main instrument of control. The main strength of UMNO is to place its die hard supporters in every influential nook and cranny and in every position of power.

Unfortunately, it did not have enough qualified people to fill all these positions. The net result was that mediocre and often stupidly boorish UMNO supporters were forcibly placed in high positions in education, judiciary, police and other civil service branches as well as GLCs. These people owe their positions to political power, not to skill or ability. They became outright racists and in time came to protect their positions against all comers including better trained and more capable Malays themselves.

The mediocrity of these “people in high places” has cost the country dear with rampant corruption, incredible wastage and loss of skilled manpower emigrating to other countries. Malays too, if they are intelligent, skilled and capable became the victims of the NEP. The suppression of capable Malays was even more severe than against the Chinese and Indians (how many Malays are in ISA detention against the number of Chinese and Indians?), especially if these Malays showed even a modicum of social conscience in protesting that the NEP has not benefited the Malay community in many different ways and especially in taking away their ability to compete and also in the NEP’s tendency to discriminate against the poor and marginalized Malays – the very people it was supposed to help.

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Well said, Batsman.

Their interest come first, otheres and the country can go to hell.

They do not care much.

Remember that this does not mean we should not learn other languages. We should and must continue to try to master other languages. But as Malaysians we must have a language that binds us together and the Malay language is IT.

ISA was meant to stop communism, but is now being used to stop politicians playing their rightful role.

NEP served in justifying that no further enquiry on the causes of May 13 was needed. So the gang that seized power could enjoy their success without question. Article 153 did the job of leveling playing fields for all races, and should have been removed in 1972 if not for May 13. NEP was utilized to remove the review provision of that article rather that the very article itself. It removed the raison d’etre for the inclusion of that Article in the constitution, and now frees UMNO politicians to advance their own views on the so-called social contract.

NEP is the reason for the following phenomena:

1. The ranking of our universities falls through their bottoms.

2. An increase of Malays in government services from below 70% in 1970s to over 90 % now.

3. Malays lecturers in universities accounted for 93%, when 33% of them are at most second best. These should have been non-Malays if the recruitment was not race-based.

4. There are 60,000 unemployable graduates, and increasing.

5. A billion ringgit a year could have been obtainable from APs. But these public funds forgone were private funds for TDM’s cronies till he retired, and Rafidah’s cronies after that. They decided who should get the easy money, and not more than 1,000 benefited while 5 million vehicles owners slaved to pay their monthly installments on their vehicle loans.

6. NEWMalays in Sabah outnumbered local Sabahans. This was done as a means to ensure UMNO remain in power, and NEP remains forever.

7. One to two million potentially tax-paying Malaysians have became citizens of other countries.

8. NEP gives the justification for negotiated contracts over public tenders for government projects. Government funds are worth less than one quarter, paying four times more for projects to cronies who monopolize all government projects. The monies are now playing their roles in UMNO elections.

9. When NEP appears to benefit 60% of the population, even though on balance it was not a free lunch for the people classified as beneficiaries. But most of those beneficiaries do not believe that they were worse off because of the loss in earning power caused by corrupt practices of the government. Thus despite its malfeasances BN government is returned to power all the time.

10. UMNO has created NEP its trump card to win elections. It will not give it up. For that race-based politics will stay. That is the greatest harm NEP has done to the nation.

Please contribute to this list.

Don’t tell me if a SINGLE SYSTEM based in Malay, the student can manage to learn a second good language.

It will be the same like those Malaysian University writing Gibberish English.

what is wrong with you? are your against SINGLE SYSTEM EDUCATION or simply against it because if it happen it’ll be in our NATIONAL LANGUAGE?

And what exact interest is that? Pls explain further… i cannot wait to hear more.

You can see they only care are their interest, they do not care about Malaysian and the country Malaysia. Their interest come first and the Malaysia can go to hell.

Don’t you see?

Frankly, I do not have a great deal of knowledge about the overall role and part that the late Hon.Tun Abdul Razak Hussein played in Malaya’s and Malaysia’s history.

I shall make an attempt to read more on that to enlighten myself, and hopefully to share pertinent information with you as and when the need arises. Of course, there must be amongst you out there who are well-informed on the subject matter; hopefully you could share relevant info to educate us who are ignorant. TQ!

Having said that, I would like to humbly beg to differ with blanket opinions which may cloud and prejudice actions and decisions made with good intentions then on issues which happened in the years before Merdeka was attained and declared.

Certainly I would neither attempt to discredit our second prime minister nor disparage just anyone, per se, personally. What have we ourselves done or contributed to the nation to condemn anyone who had done so much in the progress and development of the country?

Tun Razak had undeniably contributed immensely to the administration and development of the country. For that alone he should be held in high esteem and honour and respect.

We should not view the ISA and NEP as totally deficient and negatively in their entire history. They served their purposes during those times and now could have outlived their raison d’etre.
Furthermore, we have the benefit of hindsight on which we base our judgement and opinions.

Of course, new realities and changing times surely call for the ISA and NEP to be reviewed or perhaps repealed, and replaced with more forthcoming and reasonable ones. Those are for debates and discussions. I do not have problems with that.

The education system including the maintenance of vernacular school is part of the agreement among the leaders before they agreed to join hands to seek independence from the British. The fact that there are 60,000 Malays and Indians in Chinese schools show that they like the schools to continue too.

There is a significant difference in the use of the mother tongue as a medium of instruction for all subjects and the teaching of the language only for the mother tongue, when the medium of instruction for other subjects is different. That is also the reason why Chinese schools do not welcome the teaching of mathematics and science in English at the primary level. From the racist statements increasingly voiced by TDM, and now his son taking a racist stand on education, one does wonder whether it was TDM’s intention to weaken the teaching of Chinese in Chinese primary schools.

The government has no ground to complain about the standards of Chinese students in Malays, and the politicians pretend to care about national unity and choose to attribute polarization of races in the country to the separation of school premises. They certainly know that polarization is because of the racist discriminatory policies that cannot fool all the people all the time. UMNO knows very well that placing students under the same roof would not stop polarization if the unfair policies in the name of NEP continue. But that is a rich source for political gains, in party election.

In my view, questioning the existence of vernacular schools is not seditious as it questions the need for parallel education systems in this country and is NOT questioning the right of our students to learn mother tongue language. As a matter of fact, I believe Mukhriz clearly stated in the same statement that mother tongue language should continue to be taught in a SINGLE EDUCATION system for all.

By going against a single education system concept, DAP and LKS have gone back on their promise/mission to create a true Bangsa Malaysia.

Mukhriz’s call for vernacular schools to be integrated into the national school system is NOT racist. As you know, government-aided schools had Malaysian students of all races and therefore it is foolish for the opposition to try and confuse people by linking it to racism or sedition.

He said there was nothing extraordinary in Mukhriz’s statement, as calls for a single education system had been made since independence.

Ideally, he said the government would like to see a single education system but numerous factors had to be considered before that could became a reality.

“Integrating” vernacular schools into the national school system is NOT the same as calling for their “closure” – Please keep things in perspective to the subject matter. You cannot demand a ‘bangsa malaysia’ in one and ask for equality and integration on one hand and then speak against people who are trying to work for social and national unity.

I found this link quite refreshing: blog.thestar.com.my/permalink.asp?id=19797

Let’s keep things in perspective please!

Don’t be startled at what his son had done for he is exactly a chip of the old block much the same as Mukhriz is the chip of the old block.Nothing surprising
really!!

Now umnoputras found it expedient to move backwards and thought it proper to re-cycle outdated ideas.

That they are doing is proof that they are afraid of both the present and the future. For there is clearly no place for them and their ways / idealogy now and beyond. Decades of NEP and bias racial policies had crippled them so much that they are not only disabled physically but are also incapable, mentally.

Of course, I am only refering to the umnoputras. Because, fortunately, there are a lot of non-umnoputras bumiputras who are yearning to break free of the system so that they too could discover new grounds and opportunities through their own merits and ability. Umno would reject them no doubt just as it did, to Zaid recently.

And finally, who said Tun Razak was honourable and commanded the respect of all malaysians?