Written by Dr Lim Teck Ghee Tuesday, 01 Nov 2011 09:10
Commentary
During a past year, there have been 3 controversies outset from regressive routine decisions of a Ministry of Education which have set a tutorial complement backwards.The 3 controversies revolve around
All 3 though simmering for a little years now have been fast coming to a head during a reign of a Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin as a Minister of Education.
The controversies have been not over minor or considerate issues in a inhabitant preparation system.They have been not sparked off by politicians with an mattock to grind or by groups wanting to measure points opposite a minister. They do not relate to s! light co mmunal interests nor have been they espoused by extremist organizations having their own agendas.
Rather they have been a regard of relatives as good as educators from all communities during grassroots as good as during mainstream multitude level.
They engage important pedagogical principles as good as ultimately, they raise a key subject of either a destiny of a younger era is being made a sacrificial lamb for slight domestic as good as bureaucratic interests.
Upon their wise resolution will rest a capability of a propagandize young kids to compete with a rest of a universe as good as a knowledge which they receive during propagandize which will shape their adult mindset as good as values.
PPSMI: Math as good as Science in English
In a box of a campaign led by a Parents Action Group for Education (PAGE), a Minister has not usually refused to encounter with PAGE leaders but has also stated which upon condition which relatives as good as students a preference to have have use of of English "will result in disharmony in a tutorial system".
There is an unfair try to kick down a campaigners as good as a over 100,000 online supporters by wild claims about a intensity disastrous stroke of a routine reversal. In fact, it is a Ministry's routine preference to demand upon Bahasa usually which is causing disharmony as good as even worst, condemning students generally Malay students to a bleak destiny in undermining their capacity as good as capability to progress in an English language-dominated global system.
Interlok: Crude as good as rude propaganda
In a box of Interlok, a Minister has similarly refused to encounter with a campaign organizers led by National Interlok Action Team (NIAT), who have argued which a novel is unfit for have have use of of by schools even going by a standards as good as superintendence upon mandatory propagandize texts issued by a ministry.
The transparent risk which a Inter lok book poses in worsening wanton secular (and cultural) stereotyping, disposition as good as influence as good as a hazard to a harmonious communal bargain among a young has been utterly ignored with a preference to proceed with a book as a content for a novel component in a SPM mandatory Bahasa Malaysia denunciation paper.
The book's inequitable bargain as good as unmitigated influence opposite minority races has already legitimized a name-calling of 'Keling pariah'and 'Cina babi' in a secondary schools, with multiform cases of bullying finale up not usually during a discipline master's door but in a local police hire as well.
The realistic as good as unreasonable in front of of a method has left a organizers, NIAT now joined by over 60 other multiracial civil multitude organizations no preference but to take their interest without delay to a rulers, as good as to intensify as good as have inhabitant a campaign to mislay Interlok from a propagandize texts.
History as a apparatus for brainwashing
With a story synopsis review which is currently taking place, it is not transparent either this is another whitewash as good as open relations exercise aimed during preserving a 'ketuanan Melayu' as good as Islamic orientation of story training or either a Ministry is seriously embarking upon a remodel routine which will see a offset as good as deputy story (both Malaysian as good as world) as a outcome, as good as with secular as good as eremite disposition as good as influence marked down to a minimum, if not eradicated from a synopsis as good as textbooks.
Meanwhile concerned parents, educators as good as civil multitude organizations have been not holding their breath, or meditative which a pitch of a pendulum behind to a liberal, on-going as good as culturally offset story preparation will occur naturally.
Over 10,000 signatories have signed a petition job for remodel of story preparation as good as a group, Campaign for a Truly Mal! aysian H istory or Kempen Sejarah Malaysia Sebenar (KemSMS) has been tough during work scheming as good as collating erudite reports as good as articles for display to a authorities as good as public.
Parochial politician or scrupulous leader
In all of these developments, we have seen vacillation as good as procrastination by a Minister of Education rather than real as good as visionary leadership. Instead of ensuring which a inhabitant tutorial complement can yield a right kind of tutorial knowledge as good as skills, Muhyiddin, as good as a bureaucratic-academic-political coalition of routine makers advising him as good as job a shots, have been burdening a propagandize young kids with denunciation handicaps as good as distorted views of a world, a multitude as good as themselves which will negatively stroke a young kids as good as a country.
There is still time for a apportion to reverse a two already announced routine decisions as good as to safeguard which a story training remodel routine has substance as good as is not an exercise in futility.
For this to occur he has to reject a superintendence from his out-of hold advisers as good as supporters as good as take a opposite tack upon a 3 controversies.He contingency take mind of a open as good as professional feedback supposing to which a Ministry has incited a deaf ear.
The preference is there for Muhyiddin to seal his repute as a politician playing up to slight as good as parochial interests or as a scrupulous personality who has a most appropriate interests of a propagandize young kids as good as their relatives during heart. All stakeholders need to inspire him to have a right decisions which can help raise a quality of a tutorial system.
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