Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email PENANG: Non-Mandarin speaking counsellors at four Chinese schools in Kepala Batas will be transferred out, Education Committee chairman Datuk Dr Toh Kin Woon told the state legislative assembly.
Dr Toh said the Education Ministry decided to transfer the teachers because they could not carry out their duties effectively due to the language barrier.
The temporary teachers were to teach remedial classes where the national language is used as the medium.
“The education authorities will replace the teachers with Chinese-speaking ones,” he told Phee Boon Poh (DAP – Sungai Puyu) when debating the motion of thanks to the Governor’s speech.
Phee said the decision to appoint non-Mandarin speaking teachers to the vernacular school was a wrong move.
