Oldest secondary school in deplorable state


A propagandize in Sarawak is in such a abominable condition which disturbed relatives have been you do 'their own repairs to bunkers as well as lockers' to safeguard their children's safety.
KUCHING: The conditions in Bau's oldest secondary school, SMK Bau, have been so abominable which it is a threat to a reserve of a 1,990 students, generally a 550 boarders.
Two blocks of hostels, housing mainly Form 1 masculine students, have been found to be in unlucky conditions with almost all a doors damaged as well as but locks. Some of a rooms have been but lighting.
"The gymnasium ways as well as a staircases have been but lights as well as borders will knowledge substantial difficulties if they have to have night-time revisit to a lavatories which have been located away from a hostels," pronounced Boniface Willy Tumek, PKR cabinet part of of Mas Gading division.
Tumek, who visited a propagandize dual days ago, pronounced which exposed as well as faulty wirings in these hostels have been clearly visible as well as a hostel warden had written warnings next to these exposed electrical wirings to warn students of a danger.
"Some of a exposed wirings have been located a small dual to 3 feet away from a tip bunkers as well as from a head or feet of those students occupying a tip bunkers.
"At a time of my revisit to these hostel blocks, a little concerned relatives were you do their own repairs to a bunkers as well as a lockers," he said.
Tumek pronounced most of a students have been from bad farming families who wish their young kids to get a great education so which they can in a future mangle o! ut of a poverty cycle.
"It is for which reason which a families have been prepared to have a difficult preference of asking their young kids to leave a reserve of their home as well as move to boarding houses.
"Unfortunately, a bad conditions during these hostels have become a source of great concern for a parents," Tumek said, adding which another hostel block was uninhabitable as well as had to be utterly sealed off.
As a result, a propagandize had to scale back on a numbers of tyro borders this year.
"The propagandize creatively had places for 650 boarders but we've been forced to scale down to 550 students.
"This means about 100 students who have been eligible for hostel accommodation during SMK Bau had to be sent to alternative schools, causing additional burdens to their families," pronounced Tumek, who is himself a former tyro of a school.
Ministry has no money
Meanwhile, a propagandize administrators had certified which it had been grappling with these problems for most years now.
Numerous submissions by a propagandize to a Education Ministry for funds to enable them to do repairs as well as upkeep have been unsuccessful.
They had been sensitive by a method which it did not have any allocation for repairs as well as upkeep of propagandize facilities.
The propagandize authorities had also sought a assistance of a MP for Mas Gading Tiki Lafe as well as Tasik Biru state assemblyman Peter Nansian, but they too have not been means to assist a school.
"Our PKR division views these problems very seriously. If left unsolved, these problems will affect a educational performances of a students which in spin will lead to serious long-term social as well as economic problems for a affected families.
"We also call on a elected member in a Bau as well as Lundu districts to look into these problems.
"The people! they ha ve pledged to offer should not be deprived of any of a basic necessities similar to decent schools, healthcare, clean piped-water, as well as electricity" he said.
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