Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Education for all? Think again.


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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