Thursday, December 10, 2009

State of schools in Malaysia

Recently there was a write up about how refugee children are suffering from inadequate school facilities. I sympathise with these children but how is it any different from our own Malaysian children.
After 52 years of Independence there are still schools in Malaysia which are not fully aided and worst still there are some schools in empty tanker and abundant estate houses or best still in a rented shop lot! Ironic isn’t it, after 52 years or independence and with the new 1 Malaysia slogan there are children in our home soil who do not have a proper schools and facilities to study.
The Likut Tamil School rental for the shop lot is paid via donations collected by the Parent-Teachers Association from the community and well-wishers. There are Tamil Schools without water supply and even without field to play and yet they have a Physical Exercise (PE) Class? The poor state of the minority in this country and I wonder would it happen to a Sekolah Kebangsaan?
How about the schools in Sabah and Sarawak, what conditions are these children gaining knowledge? I just came to understand that if you are an Indian government servant who is transferred to Sabah, their children were not eligible for free text books and for the Health Department forms, they are placed under the 'Lain-lain' category along with the children of the illegal immigrants. This is our 1 Malaysia in the making!

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