Sunday, May 12, 2013

Single-stream schools will unify nation, say academicians

Academicians have called for vernacular schools in the country to be changed to single stream schools to strengthen national unity.
They said problems of racial unity were caused from an inconsistent schooling system, with the existence of schools of various streams.
Former Universiti Technologi Mara pro-chancellor Tan Sri Dr Abdul Rahman Arshad said vernacular schools developed at a faster pace and that only 10% of non-Malays studied in national schools.
"The rest are in vernacular schools. It is clear that racism is expanding widely, this continues with private secondary schools and national-type secondary schools," he said on Sunday.
He said the divide-and-rule concept was implemented by the British, and education now "is dividing".
"Nowadays, if said in this manner, it will be regarded as an accusation.
"But if we still allow such schools, don't ever hope to talk about unity, it will only be lip service," he said.
A more strident tone was used by former Appeals Court judge Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah who wanted national-type schools (SJKs) to be done away with because they were not recognised under the constitution.
"SJKs only disunite the people. We should now have government primary schools, government secondary schools. The existing SJKs should be changed to government schools.
"Every student studies in the same classroom, eats at the same canteen, plays in the same court. Then we can strengthen national integration," he said.
This should be supported by the whole Malaysian society, he said, regarding those who disagreed with a single stream school as anti-unity.

5 comments:

profit said...

The problem with National Schools,is that it does not potray NATIONAL anymore,but rather a RELIGIOUS school.Thats what depriving other races sending their children.

Anonymous said...

These morons don`t want harmony and unity. Thay want to rule Malaysia.

Now they shall pay the price for their arragonce and ignorance.

Anonymous said...

profit,
can you tell in detail about your accusation national schools are like religious school? any religious activities or to go into detail as i know you are targetting it to Islam, it is carried out not during the normal schools hours.get your fact right

profit said...

Just walk into any National school,be it urban or rural,you can see signs such as ALLAH and Muhammad in Arabic.Malay girls wearing the tudung.Teachers are holier than thou.I have personal experience on all these issues.My daughter refuse to wear the tudung,they kept harping to my daughter to follow the trend.They gave sacarstic remarks such as "anak orang asli".
We can argue that Islam is the official religion,thats why they have to potray all those banners.What about other religion they also want to potray their religious banners since they are free to practice their choosen faith.WHY CAN'T OUR CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL LIKE WE I DID IN THE 60S.

Anonymous said...

how about UiTM and the residential Malay-only schools ... how do they contribute to national unity?