Simple activity to help poor students also can be publicised and make headlines. For past few years the same activity was done without any concern for disruption of school activities. Suddenly, the activity is asked not proceed. Very fishy!
Free spectacles for pupils not a political move
PENANG: There is no political agenda behind the state government’s programme to give 223 Tamil school pupils free spectacles worth RM9,000, as this was approved during the previous administration.
Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy, who heads the education portfolio, told a press conference yesterday that the programme was initiated when Gerakan’s former state executive councillor Datuk Dr Toh Kin Woon was in charge of education.
“This is a social activity for poor pupils, and we feel that good programmes should continue,” he said.
He was responding to Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong’s comment on Saturday that schools should not be turned into a political platform.
Dr Wee had said that Dr Ramasamy’s application to give spectacles to the pupils was rejected because the state Education Department did not want them to be disturbed during school hours.