Najib gets bags of petitions to reinstate PPSMI

A group of relatives has submitted more than 12,000 petitions delectable to a supervision to continue a training of Mathematics as well as Science in a English denunciation (PPSMI).

About 15 member of a Concerned Parents of Selangor (CPS) were during a Prime Minister's Office in Putrajaya this morning, carrying a dozen plastic bags filled with petitions for a prime minister's consideration.

"As a major stakeholders upon a PPSMI issue, you have been many discontented that a Education Ministry has persisted in not receiving heed of our opinions, grouses as well as complaints," pronounced coordinator Shamsudin Hamid.

He as well as four other relatives met with Saiful Azhar, an aide to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, to submit a petitions.

Last month, emissary premier as well as Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had sought tomitigatethe brawl by promising a gradual transition.

Students right divided learning a dual subjects in English will be authorised to select either or not to continue with this.

"We hold it is only a stop-gap magnitude to assuage relatives whose young kids ! have been caug ht in a investigate of Maths as well as Science by becoming different a medium of instruction from English to Bahasa Malaysia. Polemics aside, a fact remains that PPSMI is still rejected," Shamsudin(left)noted.

He pronounced a preference was "a non-definitive as well as knee-jerk solution" as well as urge! d for an in-depth examination of a "total education system".

When a supervision decided to do divided with a policy, Parent-Teacher Associations were not even authorised to hold meetings to discuss a issue, he claimed.

"As relatives you have a right to direct what is many appropriate for our c! hildren. .. many of a reference books for Mathematics as well as Science have been in English," he said.

"We have been not doubt a significance of Bahasa Malaysia though you can't omit a significance of a fact that these dual subjects have been taught in a universally supposed language, that is English."

'Forward thinking PM'

CPS had formerly submitted dual memoranda upon a matter, though a relevant ministries have nonetheless to conflict to these.

Asked for their next move should a beginning additionally fail, Shamsudin said: "I do not foresee anything. We have been really carefree as well as a prime apportion is a really brazen thinking leader.

"We do not wish to march upon a streets since you have been obliged relatives as well as that is not kind of example you wish to set for our children."

The process was implemented in 2003 by then prime apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad over a vocal protests of groups defending a status of Bahasa Malaysia as a national language.

In 2009 a governmentrevertedto a make use of of a Bahasa Malaysia for a training of a dual subjects - Mathematics as well as Science - that was criticised as a "flip flop" decision.

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