I still remember the hot issue
during my interview for my first posting back in 2009. It was about a girl, who has an
excellent SPM result but was rejected to further her study to the public university
for reason being a non-Bumiputera.
Recently, the same issue arises
again. A student with 3.8 CGPA in her foundation year in University Malaya was
rejected to pursue in medical course just because of her “foreign and Christian”
name. How ridiculous it that? How can you reject an excellent student just
because of their name? If name is the first most important qualification to
further study, I guess I won’t have to be a teacher. We can all just make sure
all parents get their child’s name right. There is no need for examination, no
need for that stupid PBS, no need for SPM, just change your name.
Come to think of it, whose fault
is it? Was it KPM? Or was it that particular person-in-charge? I don’t know. I
just hope whoever is in charge of selecting the students, please, stop being
racist. You are an adult, be smart. Which era you are living in? Why do you
still have such a narrow mind? You are dealing with the future of the students
as well as the future of the country. If you choose your own people without
taking into account of the result and achievement of the students, then you are
damaging the future of our country.
Because of this, excellent
students left the country and further their study oversea. Graduated, found a
job and migrated. We produced excellent students, and ‘donated’ their smart
brain to the neighbouring countries and by then, then only our government
started to beg them to come back and serve the country. But being rejected at
you own country, would you even think of coming back?
The school I’m teaching in is
famous of being at the bottom of the list of schools based on examination
result. But why do we keep on being at the bottom no matter how hard we work to
improve the students? One reason, our students are always missing in action and
suddenly came back few years after not being in school. Regardless of the fact
that the students did not take PMR examination, JPN still approved their
application because of education policy where everyone deserves to have
education. Being said so, then why did you reject that 3.8 CGPA student?
Why pushing the schools to
produce excellent students when their name is all that matter? Please, STOP for the sack of our future.
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