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Many Schools Missing!

October 29th, 2010
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We need to bring in the big guns! We have lots of schools missing. Disappeared from the face of the earth (in Malaysia la). May need to seek help of bomohs too.

The statistics clearly show number of Chinese and Tamil schools has been reduced but the Deputy Minister said no schools was closed down and he didn’t really answer the question asked.  From more than 880 Tamil schools in 1957, now left with 523 only.

Dewan Rakyat this morning became heated up during question time, after a query by Nga Kor Ming (DAP – Taiping) on Chinese schools raised the ire of Barisan Nasional MPs.

Nga, during his supplementary question to Deputy Education Minister Dr Puad Zarkashi, questioned why the government had closed many Chinese and Tamil language schools in the country.

“Firstly, I’d like to congratulate the country for establishing 2,637 national schools from the years 1948 to 2000,” said Nga.

“At the same time, I express my sadness knowing that 48 Chinese medium schools had been shut down. The same thing is also happening at Tamil schools.”

At this point, Datuk Seri Jamaluddin Jarjis (BN – Rompin) stood up to interject, accusing Nga of uttering seditious remarks.

Read the hansard below (comments in red are interesting indeed!). Full hansard for 27th October 2010 is available on parliament website here [pdf file]. If schools were not closed down where did they go? How can number of schools reduced? Were they allowed to “die a natural death”?  Do we need Fox and Mulder to investigate?

Most funny is the questions/comments by Jamaludin Jarjis.

4. Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping] minta Menteri Pelajaran menyatakan secara terperinci satu demi satu status terkini pembinaan 19 buah sekolah jenis kebangsaan SJK(C) yang diumum serta dijanjikan oleh kerajaan pada 31 Januari 2008 serta kos terlibat dalam menyiapkan sekolah-sekolah tersebut.
Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran II [Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad bin Zarkashi]: Assalamualaikum warahmatullaahi wabarakaatuh dan salam 1Malaysia. Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia sentiasa berusaha meningkatkan pembangunan pendidikan dalam memastikan pembangunan modal insan lebih berkesan tanpa mengamalkan diskriminasi ke atas mana-mana sekolah yang terdapat dalam sistem pendidikan kebangsaan. Untuk makluman Ahli Yang Berhormat, proses perpindahan dua buah SJK(C) telah siap dan mula beroperasi pada tahun ini iaitu SJK(C) Tai Hong, berpindah dari Kota Tinggi ke Taman Impian Emas, Johor Bahru dan SJK(C) Pai Tze dari Bukit Serampang ke Setia Eco Gardens, Johor Bahru.
Manakala perpindahan lima sekolah lagi telah mendapat kelulusan pihak berkuasa tempatan dan dalam proses pembinaan sekarang ini iaitu SJK(C) Bandar Bukit Tangga – Bukit Beruntung, Selangor – RM3 juta. SJK(C) Pay Fong 1 –
Crimson, Krubong, Melaka juga RM3 juta. SJK(C) Pun Pong – Alor Setar, Kedah – RM3 juta. SJK(C) Tung Hwa – RM3.8 juta iaitu Seremban dan SJK(C) Kiow Min – Taman Perkasa, Alor Gajah, Melaka sebanyak RM2.3 juta. Dua lagi baru selesai isu tapak iaitu SJK(C) Wu Tek – Bandar Pak Len, Kelang, Selangor. Yang kedua ialah SJK(C) Pai Chee – Bandar Jasa Cemerlang, Johor.
Untuk makluman Ahli Yang Berhormat, untuk sekolah baru daripada enam yang dicadangkan, baru satu telah selesai perolehan tapak iaitu SJK(C) Emerald – Rawang. Tapak adalah ihsan daripada pihak pemaju bernilai RM3.5 juta. Manakala selebihnya, pihak Lembaga Pengelola Sekolah (LPS) dalam proses membuat perolehan tanah, penyediaan pelan bangunan atau mengemukakan permohonan kebenaran merancang untuk kelulusan oleh pihak berkuasa tempatan. Keseluruhan peruntukan yang disediakan untuk semua sekolah tersebut termasuk yang dijanjikan ialah RM95 juta. Terima kasih.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Terima kasih Tuan Yang di-Pertua dan terima kasih jawapan dari Timbalan Menteri. Pendidikan adalah teras pembangunan negara. Mengikut statistik yang saya ada, saya mengucapkan tahniah kepada kerajaan kerana berjaya membina 2,637 buah sekolah kebangsaan sepanjang tempoh dari tahun 1948 hingga tahun 2000. Walau bagaimanapun, saya berasa amat sedih dan kesal, pada tempoh yang sama sejumlah 49 buah sekolah jenis kebangsaan Cina telah ditutup. Ini sama juga berlaku kepada sekolah jenis kebangsaan Tamil, tutup. Memang jumlah bilangan sekolah telah berkurangan. Tadi wakil kerajaan telah memberikan jawapan…
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Saya hendak minta, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, 36(6). Ini kenyataan benarkah kita tutup sekolah Cina ni?
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Ini sekarang floor saya.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Your floor, but you are seditious, how can you tuduh tidak betul.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: What seditious?
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Ini you kata tutup sekolah mana? Mana ada kita tutup sekolah Cina.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Ini saya cadangkan..
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Tidak apa Yang Berhormat Rompin, biar Menteri yang jawab nanti.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Jumlah bilangan sekolah yang… ini Duta Amerika, balik Amerika Syarikatlah. Jangan buang masa masuk Dewan.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Betulkah sekolah Cina ditutup supaya kita menang dalam pilihan raya?
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Belum saya habis pertanyaan, buat apa kacau dalam Dewan ini? Balik Amerikalah, jadi Duta Amerika, mengapa duduk sini?
[Dewan riuh]
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Ini hak saya, ini hak saya, saya ada hak saya.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Dia tidak tahu, sebab itu jangan putar belit, jangan putar belit. [Dewan riuh]
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Ahli-ahli Yang Berhormat, Yang Berhormat Taiping.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Apa cakap macam ini?
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Ikut peraturan mesyuarat. Saya belum habis.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Duduk dulu Yang Berhormat Taiping. Itu sebabnya Ahli-ahli Yang Berhormat, saya sering kali mengingatkan bahawa apabila berhujah, kalau boleh elakkan menggunakan perkataan-perkataan yang mengundang reaksi negatif dari sebelah, fasal beginilah. Apabila saya bercakap begini ada yang mengatakan bahawa saya berkhutbah. Bagus lagi saya berkhutbah daripada mendengar pertengkaran yang tidak habis-habis. Kepada Ahli-ahli Yang Berhormat berkenaan, saya sarankan supaya pergi ke Batu Sapi dan Galas. Sila, teruskan.
[Ketawa]
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Terima kasih Tuan Yang di-Pertua yang bijaksana. Soalan tambahan saya, tadi wakil kerajaan katakan kerajaan tidak pernah mengamalkan apa-apa dasar diskriminasi ke atas semua aliran sekolah. Maka, adalah tugas saya sebagai wakil rakyat untuk memaklumkan kepada Timbalan Menteri tentang garis panduan dan surat pekeliling kementerian yang wujud pada hari ini.
Soalan pertama saya, garis panduan dan surat pekeliling yang sedia ada menetapkan tapak rizab sekolah hanya boleh digunakan untuk bina sekolah kebangsaan dan sekolah jenis kebangsaan lain seperti Tamil dan Cina tidak diberikan layanan yang saksama.
Kedua, garis panduan dan surat pekeliling dari kementerian juga menetapkan jika Lembaga Pengelola Sekolah yang ingin memohon, merayu untuk membina sekolah baru, sebelum mereka mendapat membuat permohonan untuk permit membina sekolah, mereka perlu merayu dan mendapatkan sumbangan wang sekurang-kurangnya 80%, 80% raised baru boleh memohon.
Garis panduan ketiga, surat pekeliling yang dikeluarkan oleh kementerian sendiri. Mana-mana pelajar yang belajar di sekolah jenis kebangsaan Cina, jika hendak tukar kepada sekolah kebangsaan boleh tetapi sebaliknya jika hendak tukar dari sekolah kebangsaan hendak tukar kepada sekolah jenis kebangsaan Cina atau Tamil, tidak boleh. [Dewan riuh]
Sebab itu – Yang Berhormat Rompin, sudah lama tidak datang Dewan Rakyat, tidak tahu, maka jangan buat kacau dalam Dewan ini. Ini surat pekeliling, bukan yang dikeluarkan oleh Pakatan Rakyat. Itu dikeluarkan oleh kementerian, sebab itu saya hendak tanya, soalan saya dengan atas dasar 1Malaysia, Rakyat Didahulukan, Pencapaian Diutamakan. Saya hendak memohon jasa baik …
Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad bin Zarkashi: Okeylah, saya boleh jawab.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Bilakah kementerian akan mengetepikan…..
Dato’ Shamsul Anuar bin Haji Nasarah [Lenggong]: Yang Berhormat Taiping kena cirit birit macam Yang Berhormat Jelutonglah.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Bilakah kerajaan akan mengetepikan dan memansuhkan surat-surat pekeliling yang tidak adil ini supaya semua rakyat dalam negara ini berasa mereka diberikan layanan yang adil dan saksama? Itu soalan saya.
Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad bin Zarkashi: Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Yang Berhormat Taiping ini memang kaki gaduh, sebab itulah dengan Yang Berhormat Ipoh Barat pun dia gaduh juga. Kawan sendiri pun dia gaduh. Saya hendak tanya bila hendak cium mulut dengan Yang Berhormat Ipoh Barat. Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia tidak pernah menutup sekolah-sekolah SJK(C), SJK(T) dan sebagainya. Bahkan, ada SJK(T) yang tinggal satu murid pun kita tidak tutup. Sebab itulah jangan buat tuduhan yang melulu. Kita ada juga sekolah yang sudah ditutup kerana berpindah tempat lain tetapi mohon dibuka semula pun kita buka semula – kita beri. Kalau Yang Berhormat sebut tentang sekolah SJK(C), kita ada tapak untuk SK (sekolah kebangsaan) yang kita beri dengan penuh ihsan untuk membina sekolah SJK(C) seperti yang di Bukit Sentosa tadi. Kita tidak ada diskriminasi. Sebab itulah dalam Bajet 2011 dengan cukup jelas disebut kita menyediakan RM250 juta untuk sekolah bantuan modal dan RM2,000 kita sediakan untuk bayar utilities setiap bulan untuk sekolah-sekolah bantuan modal termasuklah SJK(C). Untuk makluman Yang Berhormat, kalau kita hendak discriminate, kita terima 800 guru GSTT daripada SJK(C) ke dalam program KDC. Lapan ratus orang satu jumlah yang ramai.
Bagaimana Yang Berhormat kata kita hendak diskriminasi sedangkan banyak lagi sekolah-sekolah kebangsaan juga…
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Surat pekeliling. [Dewan riuh]
Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad bin Zarkashi: Banyak sekolah kebangsaan…
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Bagaimana dengan garis panduan…
Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad bin Zarkashi: Yang menghadapi masalah di pedalaman – sekolah banjir, sekolah menumpang, sekolah dua sesi di pedalaman. Ini juga perlu diberi perhatian. Kita tidak ada memberikan sebarang sikap yang diskriminasi kepada SJK(C), bahkan kita membantu. Kita bayar gaji RM2,900. RM1.8 bilion untuk sekolah-sekolah SJK(C) ini – gaji guru ya. Jadi ini Yang Berhormat kena terima. Saya hendak beritahu, lima daripada sekolah yang tidak selesai tanahnya adalah di Selangor. Di Selangor, kalau boleh Kerajaan Negeri berilah tanah. Apa yang berlaku, dia ambil tanah untuk curi pasir. Itu yang berlaku sebenarnya.
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh]: Bantahan.
Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad bin Zarkashi: Tanah untuk bina UiTM pun dia ambil.
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh]: Tuan Yang di-Pertua…
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Ini sangkaan jahat.
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh]: Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Kerajaan Negeri Selangor memang ada bagi mewartakan banyak tanah untuk mendirikan…
[Dewan riuh]
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Yang Berhormat duduk dahulu, duduk dahulu. Ahli Yang Berhormat duduk dahulu.
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh]: Ia ditukar untuk membina SJK(C).
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Duduk dahulu Ahli Yang Berhormat, duduk dahulu.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Mereka yang mengundang kekecohan Tuan Yang di-Pertua.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Duduk dahulu, duduk dahulu.
Beberapa Ahli: [Menyampuk]
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Duduk dahulu. Inilah masalahnya. Apabila soalan ditanya, bising, soalan dijawab setimpal, bising.
Datuk Ir. Haji Idris bin Haji Haron [Tangga Batu]: Yang Berhormat Seputeh hendak register kehadiran itu.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya hendak bawa Point of Order 36(10)(c). “Adalah salah pada peraturan menggunakan perkataan-perkataan yang harus menaikkan perasaan bersakit-sakit hati ataupun bermusuh-musuhan di antara satu kaum dengan satu kaum dalam Malaysia atau melanggar mana-mana syarat dalam Perlembagaan atau Akta Hasutan, 1984.” Tadi Yang Berhormat Taiping mengatakan kerajaan menutup 40 buah sekolah Cina.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Siapa makan cili dia rasa pedas.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: You shut up!
Dato’ Shamsul Anuar Nasarah [Lenggong]: Kurang ajar ini orang.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Duduk! Duduk! Ini hak saya. Saya majoriti besar di Parlimen Rompin itu. Jangan kacau. Ini menghasut. Ini kerana apa? Ini kerana dua pilihan raya kecil di sana supaya pengundi Cina tidak menyokong kerajaan Barisan Nasional dan sanggup menghasut orang Melayu kucar kacir antara kaum, ini politik apa ini? Menyalahgunakan ini. [Mengangkat buku Peraturan Mesyuarat] Saya minta maaf. Saya sudah tidak tahan dengar. Saya diam tetapi cara ini…
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Terima kasih, terima kasih. Saya arif benar dengan peraturan mesyuarat tadi itu tetapi selama duduk di sini lebih kurang tiga tahun, saya mempunyai kesimpulan bahawa ahli-Ahli Yang Berhormat ini kadang-kadang hatihati kamu cukup keras. Kadang-kadang tidak terjolok, kadang-kadang tidak sakit, kadang-kadang tidak sensitif. Ini kerana kalau sensitif, andai sakit, tidak adalah Ahliahli Yang Berhormat yang mengeluarkan hujah melanggar peraturan mesyuarat. Terima kasih.
Beberapa Ahli: [Bangun]
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Yang ini berdiri untuk soalan…
Dato’ Shamsul Anuar bin Haji Nasarah [Lenggong]: Tambahan.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Okey, sila Yang Berhormat Ledang.
Dato’ Kamarudin bin Jaffar [Tumpat]: Maknanya Tuan Yang di-Pertua membuat ruling menolak apa yang dipohon oleh Yang Berhormat Rompin. Terima kasih. [Ketawa]
Datuk Ir. Haji Idris bin Haji Haron [Tangga Batu]: Kami minta ruling Tuan
Yang di-Pertua. Apa hukuman ruling untuk Yang Berhormat Taiping, ruling untuk Yang Berhormat Taiping.
Datuk Haji Mohamad bin Haji Aziz [Sri Gading]: Yang Berhormat Rompin itu bawa perkara yang benar sebenarnya.
Datuk Ir. Haji Idris bin Haji Haron [Tangga Batu]: Satu pandangan yang racist. Ruling untuk Yang Berhormat Taiping Tuan Yang di-Pertua.
Datuk Haji Mohamad bin Haji Aziz [Sri Gading]: Yang Berhormat Taiping membuat perasaan bersakit-sakit hati.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: [Bercakap tanpa menggunakan pembesar suara]
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Terima kasih Yang Berhormat Rompin, terima kasih Yang Berhormat Rompin.
Datuk Ir. Haji Idris bin Haji Haron [Tangga Batu]: Ruling ini memang kena.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: [Bercakap tanpa menggunakan pembesar suara] Ini menghasut.
Datuk Haji Mohamad bin Haji Aziz [Sri Gading]: [Menyampuk]
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Ya, ya, terima kasih, terima kasih.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Tuan Yang di-Pertua, ini kena tarik balik ini. Ini kenyataan tidak benar dan boleh menghasut yang jelas salah. Akan tetapi parti DAP untuk menang pilihan raya, apa jua mereka akan buat, tiupkan
semangat supaya orang Cina benci Malaysia. Apa ini?
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh]: Kenapa Yang Berhormat Rompin begitu bimbang tentang pilihan raya kecil?
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Betul tidak kerajaan menutup SJK(C)?
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Yang Berhormat Rompin, Yang Berhormat Seputeh sudah, sudah.
Dato’ Seri Dr. Jamaludin Mohd. Jarjis [Rompin]: Betul tidak? Kalau betul tidak apalah, tetapi saya rasa tidak. Ini tohmah, pendustaan yang besar, fitnah
besar.
Ir. Haji Hamim bin Samuri [Ledang]: Okey Tuan Yang di-Pertua.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Sila Yang Berhormat Ledang.
Beberapa Ahli: [Menyampuk]
Tuan Yang di-Pertua: Sudah saya buat ruling Ahli-ahli Yang Berhormat. Soalan yang diajukan itu kalau merupakan pembohongan, ia telah dijawab oleh Menteri. Jadi soalan seperti tumbukan kalau 50% kuatnya, jawapan pun 50%, bagi saya fairlah. [Ketawa] Sila Yang Berhormat Ledang.
Ir. Haji Hamim bin Samuri [Ledang]: Terima kasih Tuan Yang di-Pertua.
Sebagaimana yang kita sedia maklum Tuan Yang di-Pertua, bahawa semua sekolah kebangsaan dan semua sekolah menengah kebangsaan adalah untuk seluruh rakyat Malaysia, tidak kira Melayu, Cina atau India. Semua sekolah menengah kebangsaan adalah untuk seluruh rakyat Malaysia. Kita tahu kerajaan prihatin dan kerajaan tidak pernah mengabaikan soal pendidikan. Justeru Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya ingin tahu sejauh mana – lebih daripada ini, kerajaan lebih prihatin terhadap pembangunan pendidikan sekolah-sekolah bantuan kerajaan? Ini kerana kita lihat setiap sekolah-sekolah ini menghadapi masalah seperti kekurangan guru, bangunan yang daif dan kekurangan kewangan dan sebagainya di seluruh negara. Ini adalah semua sekolah. Tidak ada sekolah Jawa, tidak ada sekolah Iban, tidak ada sekolah Banjar, Bugis dan sebagainya. Ini adalah untuk semua rakyat Malaysia tidak kira Melayu, Cina atau India. Sejauh mana kerajaan prihatin berbanding dengan keistimewaan yang telah kerajaan berikan kepada semua sekolah-sekolah lain. Sekian, terima kasih.
Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad bin Zarkashi: Terima kasih Yang Berhormat Ledang. Sebab itulah di dalam Bajet 2011, kerajaan menyediakan peruntukan tambahan yang semakin besar untuk Kementerian Pelajaran. Bahkan untuk tujuan pembangunan, telah dinaikkan kepada RM6.4 bilion dengan tujuan bahawa dengan pertambahan yang sebegini besar – selain daripada Belanja Mengurus, maka kita dapat memastikan bahawa mana-mana sekolah yang berada dalam keadaan yang daif, sekolah yang sering dilanda banjir, sekolah menumpang sepertimana yang saya sebut masih banyak terutamanya di Sabah, Sarawak yang banyak sangat sekolah menumpang, ini kita akan dapat atasi dengan jumlah perbelanjaan yang bertambah ini. Ini tidak termasuk yang saya kata Belanja Mengurus dinaikkan kepada RM2.93 bilion.
Oleh kerana itu, saya ingin menyatakan di sini bahawa pendirian kita adalah cukup jelas bahawa sekolah kebangsaan ialah bukan sekolah Melayu. Sekolah kebangsaan ialah sekolah untuk semua rakyat Malaysia termasuk pendudukpenduduk yang berketurunan Iban, Kadazan Dusun, Kayan dan sebagainya. Oleh itu, bila kita membela sekolah-sekolah kebangsaan, maka ia juga adalah untuk sekolah semua kaum. Dalam masa yang sama, kita tidak pernah melupakan sekolah-sekolah bantuan modal. Sebab itu kita kategorikan sekolah-sekolah ini sebagai sekolah bantuan kerajaan iaitu antaranya seperti sekolah mubaligh, sekolah SJK(C), SJK(T), bahkan Sekolah Agama Rakyat dan Sekolah Agama Negeri pun kita bantu. Oleh kerana itulah, saya ingin menyatakan di sini bahawa dasar kerajaan dalam soal pembangunan modal insan ini adalah cukup adil, cukup saksama sebenarnya. Sebab kita tahu bahawa pendidikan ini penting.
Sebab itulah pada saya apa juga yang dibangkitkan oleh pembangkang terutama DAP memang adalah bertujuan politik. Mereka langsung tidak pernah membela sekolah-sekolah kebangsaan di pedalaman yang cukup daif. Mereka tidak pernah pergi pun ke Sabah, Sarawak, pedalaman ini. Yang hanya mereka lihat hanya sekolah di bandar.
Tuan Nga Kor Ming [Taiping]: Tunggu Pakatan Rakyat jadi kerajaan, kita akan pergi.
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh]: Jangan cabar.
Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad Zarkashi: Penghasut besar.
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh]: Nanti kalah.
Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing [Tuaran]: Tuan Yang di- Pertua, pertamanya saya ingin merakamkan setinggi penghargaan dan tahniah kepada Tuan Yang di-Pertua kerana watak dan peranan sebagai Tuan Yang di-
Pertua yang world class.

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the PMR History paper question on vernacular school

October 13th, 2010
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The question in question (!) is QUESTION 49 as below:

Senarai berikut berkaitan dengan sistem pendidikan di negara kita sebelum merdeka.

  • Sekolah vernakular melayu
  • sekolah vernakular cina
  • sekolah vernakular tamil

Apakah kesan perlaksanaan sistem pendidikan tersebut?

A Petempatan baru bertambah

B Perpaduan rakyat sukar dicapai

C Penghijrahan penduduk ke bandar

D Perbelanjaan pengurusan meningkat

What is your opinion on the question and answers above? The answer is B. My opinion is that the question talked about the 3 types of schools (Malay, Chinese, and Tamil) and said that the vernacular schools (note: Malay school is vernacular as well) were in place before independence. The impact of having such separate school systems is that unity is difficult to achieve. Note that the question talked about the situation before independence where the syllabus, teachers, and pretty much everything was not standardised. The teaching material focused on the “motherland” at that time (Jawi/Arab/Malay, India and China). There was no common syllabus and nothing about “unity”. Secondly, the correct answer said that unity is hard to achieve (sukar dicapai). It didn’t say not achievable (tidak boleh dicapai).  For me, nothing wrong in the question, but just that in the current “hot” and “sensitive” times, it could have been avoided.

What happens now is the complaints by parents and other parties:

PARENTS of PMR students are unhappy with a question in the History test, which they claim asked the students about the effect the implementation of vernacular schools before independence had on the country’s educational policy, reported Makkal Osai.

The daily reported the parents as complaining that the question had also said vernacular schools were a stumbling block to the country’s unity. They alleged that such questions would affect the mentality and morale of younger children studying in Tamil and Chinese schools.

The parents also said that for the past 53 years, the vernacular schools had been fully supportive of the changes introduced by the Education Ministry.

They also called on examiners to be careful in selecting questions in the future so as not to create unease and tension among the major communities.

As one MCA leader said, don’t make vernacular school as scapegoats because post-independence, the syllabus, teachers training, the education philosophy and policies are all standardised. Both BM and English are taught in Tamil and Chinese schools, and any student from any race and religion can study in any vernacular school. There’s no barrier and no segregation.

I don’t agree with HRP this time on this issue. There’s many other issues to pick on, don’t waste time on this non-issue because it dilutes the other arguments. Refer to their statement below:

The PMR history question which suggests that Tamil schools are the reason for national disunity being achieved is an insult to the PMR students intelligence. [it did not say Tamil schools only. Also include Malay and Chinese schools].

It is either Tamil schools or no schools for most of the 70% of the Malaysian Indians who are in the poor or hardcore poor category. They have a Tamil school at walking distance. How can they afford to pay the RM100 to RM250 bus fare when they earn a mere RM600 to RM800 per month? [indeed, most would sent to the nearest school]

These 70% Indian poor is as a result of 53 long years of UMNO racism, discrimination and exclusion of the Indians from the national mainstream development of Malaysia.

The UMNO led Malay-sian government has to get to the point by abiding by Article 8 of the Federal Constitution which guarantees equality for all Malaysians.

To start off with 370 or 70% of the 523 Tamil schools nationwide (NST 11/6/08 at page 24) have been denied full government financial assistance resulting, for example, the Ladang Jeram Estate Tamil School, Kuantan Tamil school being wholly in shipping containers, Lukut Tamil school Port Dickson housed upstairs a shophouse, Assad Tamil School Penang in a basement and the Tepi Sungai Tamil School, Klang which is operating from a JKR storeroom – should all be provided with state land and made fully assisted. There is no where else in the world where a primary school exists in these conditions. Only in bi-racial One Malay-sia can this extent of racism prevail. [Two of the schools are still in same condition, while th new building for SJKT Tepi Sungai is up and running. Refer http://sjktjlntpsg.blogspot.com]

The allocation per Tamil school student is RM10.55 but for a Malay school is it three times higher at RM33.00 per student (Sempuruthi Magazine August 2008 pg 47) [this is part of education policy I believe].

To the direct contrary 7,500 Malay schools will be marked 3 star, 2,000 marked 4 star and 500 marked 5 star by 2010. (NST 16/9/08 page 9). But the historical Mount Austin Estate Tamil School completely disappeared from the face of One Malay-sia. The first of it’s kind on planet earth! (MN 13/10/10 at page 4).

Teachers training opportunities are also denied to 1,522 temporary teachers in Tamil schools nationwide. (TN 5/1/09 front page) Only 100 out of 1067 temporary Tamil school teachers get to do the Kursus Dalam Cuti holiday Teachers training course. (TN 30/9/08 page 2).

But 15,000 Diploma qualified and trained (Malay muslim) primary school teachers are given the opportunity to do the primary school graduate teachers programme to ensure that at least 50% of the 140,000 (Malay muslim) primary school teachers have a degree in education awarded by 2010 in the five years Degree programme consisting of four years school holiday course and the fifth year on full time basis at all the Teacher Training Universities. (NST 23/7/2008 at page 18). Such facilities are denied to tamil school teachers.

These inequalities and UMNO racism are the real reasons for racial disunity in Malaysia even after 53 years of independence and not the vernacular schools.

Thus racist PMR exam questions to this effect holds no water and should not be allowed in future. The Director for PMR exams must therefore be forthwith sacked for this line of PMR exam questions especially in the light of UMNO Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bi-racial One Malay-sia policy.

P.Uthayakumar

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Application for Primary School Teacher Training 2011

October 11th, 2010
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Those interested to be primary school teachers!

Deadline 24 October 2010.

Refer to main URL: http://kpli.moe.gov.my/application_jan2011/

Important note:

1. Must be a graduate with a JPA-recognised bachelor degree from IPTA/IPTS (can check your degree here: http://www.interactive.jpa.gov.my/webinteraktif/frmMainIktiraf.asp)

2. Age less than 35 as of 31 January 2011 (Umur tidak melebihi 35 tahun pada 31 Januari 2011 iaitu lahir pada atau selepas 31 Januari 1976.)

3. You need to buy PIN from BSN.

4. There’s a compulsory test for qualified applicants before proceeding to interview.

5.  At least Credit for BM in SPM and passed English in SPM (see how low we set our standards!)

6. Training duration is one year.

7.

Read the full advertisement details here:

http://kpli.moe.gov.my/application_jan2011/iklan.html

Apply online at http://kpli.moe.gov.my/application_jan2011/permohonan.cfm

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Coalfields Estate problem never ending

August 3rd, 2010
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Then (2007):

Workers get option to buy houses:

Workers of three estates belonging to Kuala Lumpur Kepong (KLK) Bhd will be able to own single-storey terrace houses after KLK implements the housing schemes.

MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the company had already agreed to implement the scheme after obtaining the approval from the relevant authorities.

“The workers in Tuan Mee, Caledonia and Coalfield estates will be the main beneficiaries,” he told voters at a community centre.

Tuan Mee’s senior manager Chuan Chong Meng, National Union of Plantation Workers general secretary Datuk G. Sankaran, MIC deputy president Datuk G. Palanivel and other MIC leaders were present.

Samy Vellu said the estate workers had put forward a proposal for the houses two days ago.

“This is how the Barisan Nasional Government works. We discuss and got the approvals within a short time for the benefit of the estate people,” he said.

Samy Vellu said estate workers who wanted to upgrade their houses or even own bungalows could do so after discussions with the company, which is constructing the houses.

He said that there would also be other infrastructure like schools, temples and a playing field that would help to upgrade the standard of living of the people.

Officials said the estate workers would be given priority to buy the houses at RM35,000 while others would have to pay RM42,000 for the two-room houses. [still got two room houses ah???]

Samy Vellu also added:

KL Kepong Berhad will be asked to allocate land for housing and agriculture for workers in the Tuan Mee, Caledonia and Coalfield estates, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.

He said this came under the Selangor government’s regulations requiring estate owners to provide housing schemes for the workers.

Samy Vellu said this following a request for land by Tuan Mee Estate MIC branch chairman K. Ramavellu at a meet-the-people session at the estate last Sunday.

“I will have discussions with KL Kepong, which owns the estates, on the matter. We will urge them to allocate land for housing for the more than 200 workers in the three estates.

“We will also ask for agriculture land so that the people can farm and cultivate vegetables to raise their income,” he added.
He said that more than 56 housing schemes for estate workers had been implemented by the various estates in the country, with the first scheme in Dovenby Estate in Sungai Siput.

Earlier in his speech, Samy Vellu said the estate workers in the country were being paid a monthly wage because of his relentless efforts in compiling a working paper for the Cabinet.

He claimed that when opposition candidate Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim was at the helm in Guthrie, he had opposed housing schemes for estate workers.

“He (Khalid) was the one who insisted in putting the estate workers in low-cost apartments. If he had the interest of the estate workers in mind, he should have approved the housing schemes for them.

in 2009, Xavier said this:

Xavier said one of the conditions imposed by the state government concerning land status conversion was that approval for estates larger than 40ha would only be sanctioned if the landowners agreed to provide housing for the displaced estate workers.

“The luckiest lot come from the Bukit Raja Estate in Klang where they recently signed the S&P with Sime Darby for terrace houses costing RM70,000 each but valued at RM150,000,” he said, adding that Coalfield Estate workers in Subang also successfully fought for their cause.

In late 2009, there were attempts to relocate workers to other estates. Also, workers couldn’t afford to buy the houses allocated to them due to inability to obtain loans.

Now:

July 2010 saw Palanivel visiting the estate:

A 15-year dispute between workers and palm oil estate owners over their residence and job has yet to be solved, although numerous promises.

The 30 families of Coalfield estate are hoping for terrace houses and better facilities where they are now, instead of forcing them to a new housing area – located across the road from the estate.

Yesterday, when Datuk G. Pala­nivel visited the estate, they told the Plantations, Industries and Commo­dities deputy minister that they were tired of the empty promises made to them since 1995.

“We were living without water and electricity supply since December,” said Coalfield estate action committee chairman Lobat Rajoo.

“But yesterday (Thursday), the utilities were restored.”

He said their woes began after a change in ownership of the estate in 1995.

Lobat said that in 2009, the previous owner, claiming to be their current employer, had told them to vacate their quarters at Coalfield Estate by June 30, last year.

“They wanted us to move to Desa Coalfield by purchasing houses there but not all of us can afford a RM35,000 house with our RM21 pay a day,” he said after handing a booklet documenting their plight to Palanivel.

The minister, who met the estate management, said: “I have told them not to be harsh on the workers but adopt a give-and-take attitude.

“Their (the workers) requests are simple and they are poor.” [so what? you think these companies care about this?]

As of yesterday, the school also asked to be moved:

MALAYSIA Nanban reported that parents of students in Ladang Coalfield Tamil School in Sungei Buloh will stage a protest against the plantation owner and housing developer.

The estate workers, who defied an order to vacate their homes, have now been asked to move the school.

A spokesperson for the parents, Lobat Raj, slammed the management and developer KL-Kepong Sdn Bhd, for using various tactics to shift the school and two places of worship, a church and a temple. The oil palm estate has been earmarked for a housing project.

He said that the developer and the management are more interested in making profits rather than considering the welfare of the estate workers.

He said that the estate workers want the school to be located near their houses instead of the present location which is about 4km away.

About 400 people, comprising parents and locals planned to gather at the school field yesterday.

Lobat said that no state government representatives have been invited because the parents have no faith in the exco in charge of Indian affairs, PKR’s Dr Xavier Jeyakumar.

Firstly, these folks should ensure they are registered voters. Then talk to politicians. Who can solve this problem within 2 months, gets their votes in next election. If nobody helps, then you realise that you are indeed worth less in their eyes.

Anyways, 4KM is still OK as long as the school is not in middle of cemetery, next to electric cables/sewerage pond/industrial plots or other unimaginable places (which seems to happen to Tamil schools). Probably the parents can try negotiate for a school bus or two vans as well to ferry some of the poor children.

As for housing loan, there are schemes to help people with low or fluctuating income to obtain loans. They should be guided on this procedures. Who will do it? MIC or HRP or DAP/PKR? Who will help the folks from A-to-Z of getting their houses?

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give funds directly to PTA says association

August 3rd, 2010
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The news below appeared over a week ago. Interesting to read the reasons given by the president. Yes, it does seem logical. On the other hands, giving the funds to established NGOs who have been involved in Tamil schools for two decades or so, also makes sense. So, which is better option.

Giving money to NGOs can help in terms of organising events on larger or coordinated scale. The NGOs have experience of conducting various events, so it will be easier. However, the downside is that the NGOs may only be focusing on areas or schools which they are familiar or comfortable with. Some schools may not have a strong PTA, thus having NGOs organising events and program will help reduce burden on PTA and teachers.

As for giving money to PTAs, I’m sure readers are aware that a number of PTAs have connections with political parties. Some do see the position in PTA as some sort channel for income for their business as caterers, contractors, printers etc. The chances of funds being misused exists, especially when the PTA people are in cohort with the school management. But on a positive side, all schools will have opportunity to do some events for themselves. Schools may most likely know what they need and can fine-tune programs to meet those requirements.

I would agree with the proposal to split the funding into two: NGOs and PTAs. This will help to cover all bases and diversify the channels. For example, state level Science Fair can be given fund under NGO category (organised by Tamil Foundation). School-level canteen day or UPSR motivation talk can receive funding via PTA.

But I’m surprised if words such as “irrelevant” is used by the PTA association in reference to EWRF or Tamil Foundation. These NGOs are well known in Tamil School environment, so “irrelevant” is an amusing choice of word.

THE Tamil Schools Parents’ Association in Selangor is demanding that the RM4mil state government allocations for Tamil schools be channelled directly to schools’ parent-teacher associations (PTAs) and not via irrelevant third parties, reports Malaysia Nanban.

Its president S. Murali said the demands would be highlighted in an eight-point memorandum to be presented to the mentri besar within the next few days.

He said the PTAs would be in a better position to manage the funds as they had first-hand information on the situation in their respective schools.

Murali said that although the Selangor Government had allocated RM4mil in annual funds last year for Tamil schools, only RM2.4mil was dispersed while the rest was channelled to three non-governmental organisations to carry out Tamil education development programmes in the state.

He suggested the state government allocate separate funding for the NGOs.

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