A call which is very long overdue (or maybe repeated often silently), but in many ways – worthless. It will be a miracle if land is allocated for such schools in new housing areas or made part of condition for developers to develop housing projects, due to economic, social and political reasons. It goes against the national education policy it seems to build more vernacular schools. Flimsy reasons are given, when asked about secondary vernacular school, such as “increase enrollment in primary school first” [coming up in next blog post].
I think any housing development project must allocate land for primary and secondary schools [if can allocate land for private or international schools, don’t tell me can’t do it for national type schools!!!], places of worship (at least 5 different religion/denominations), community hall, nursery/kindergarten, daycare center, police beat, sports field, one or two row of shoplots, among others.
As I said, all these noise is from the proverbial empty vessels. We all know the power lies in whose hands.
MCA has called on the government to reserve land for all types of schools, including vernacular schools, at new housing estates.
MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the education department must be proactive in its planning for schools.
“The education officers must identify the locations and reserve the land for Chinese schools before the people ask for it,” he said after visiting the newly opened SJKC Kheng Chee, which has been relocated from Pahang in the morning.
Liow added that currently there are only reserved lands for the national schools.
He said MCA would continue to monitor the implementation of the Education Blueprint to ensure the continuous development of Chinese education since the government had recognised it as part of the mainstream education system.
source: http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/02/17/Liow-says-reserve-land-for-all-types-of-schools/