{"id":2435,"date":"2008-10-08T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T01:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/10\/08\/not-all-chinese-schools-wants-to-be-converted-to-government-schools\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T01:33:36","slug":"not-all-chinese-schools-wants-to-be-converted-to-government-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/10\/08\/not-all-chinese-schools-wants-to-be-converted-to-government-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all chinese schools wants to be converted to government schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

So says<\/a> Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong. He says the partially-aided Chinese primary schools won’t be forced to convert into fully-aided ones. It would be up to the board of governors of each school to decide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not force schools to do so. We cannot give a blanket approval. Otherwise, it will create a mess,\u201d he said in responding to a request from the school board for the school to be converted to a government school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to him, the Indian community was aggreable to convert all their partially-aided schools to fully-aided ones. Well, that’s because most of the schools are in pathetic condition and “squatting” on plantation lands. Of course it will be a beneficial move. But for the Chinese schools, some of them are owners of their land and have mutli-storey buildings. They have strong financial support from the foundations and business community. Thus, they prefer to remain out of government hands. They still want to maintain their freedom.<\/p>\n

Dr Wee said that while the Indian community was open to convert all Tamil schools in the country, the Chinese were reluctant to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Indian community wants to completely hand over its 374 schools, the majority of Chinese schools are not keen due to the amount they have spent, and because they still want to hold on to the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that to date, only a handful of Chinese schools had requested conversion of their status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The deputy minister also mentioned about the plans (STILL BEING MADE!) on conversion of those schools:<\/p>\n

Dr Wee also noted that while plans were being made to allow the conversion of partially-aided schools under the Education Blueprint 2006-2010, there was also a need for a more balanced system of allocation distribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, we have to first look at our overall financial capability,\u201d said Dr Wee, who announced an emergency allocation of RM20,000 to SJK (C) Thung Hon for classroom furniture and to build a guardhouse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So says Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong. He says the partially-aided Chinese primary schools won’t be forced to convert into fully-aided ones. It would be up to the board of governors of each school to decide. \u201cWe will not force schools to do so. We cannot give a blanket approval. Otherwise, it will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-tamil-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}