More Malay parents are seeing value in Chinese schools that Ridhuan Tee, Teo Kok Seong don’t see
HOW true indeed is the age-old adage that true beauty lies is in the eyes of the beholder.
How sad indeed to know of two academicians who despised their own mother tongue by claiming that Chinese vernacular schools would serve as a breeding ground for disunity when more and more Malay parents whom one would expect to affirm such observation are openly showering those government-aided schools with praises.
It is nothing short of amazing when this Malay father Amer Hamzah (@amer7211) berated wrong assumptions levelled at Chinese schools by a post on X (previously Twitter) which seemingly undermined the quality of Chinese education in the country.
“Don’t make assumptions. All three of my children go to SJKC (Chinese national type primary school),” explained the father with video evident of his eldest son reciting the Rukun Negara (National Principle) in Mandarin.
1. Ramai melayu di sjkc sebab dah tak cukup sekolah SK
2. jumlah murid dalam Satu kelas di SK mencecah 40+ orang
3. SJK berasaskan kaum , dah tak relevant dan perlu ditukar menjadi SK
4. Bumiputra lebih bersifat terbuka, tidak kekok dan pandai bergaul berbanding non bumiputra
Memandai2 je lahanat ni buat andaian. Ketiga2 anak aku masuk SJKC. Bukan sebab sekolah SK tak cukup. Tapi aku memilih SJKC kerana pentadbirannya, ko-korikulumnya, sponsorshipnya dan persekitarannya lebih baik dan terbuka. Selain bahasa ibunda (melayu) dan English, kesemua anak… Show more
“It’s not because the SK (national school) school is not enough. But I chose SJKC because its administration, co-curriculum, sponsorship and environment are better and open.
“Besides their mother tongue (Malay) and English, all my children are fluent in Mandarin. How fortunate to be able to master three languages here. My children remain Malay, Muslim and are always nurtured with respect in schools.”
Amer Hamzah was addressing what he deemed as “erroneous claims” made by poster Anti Cyber Trooper (@genz20001) as follows:
- There are many Malays in SJKC because there are not enough SK schools;
- The enrolment in one SK class exceeds 40+ pupils;
- Race-based SJKC is no longer relevant and needs to be changed to SK; and
- Bumiputera are more open, not clumsy and sociable than non-Bumiputera.
Another netizen Syafiq Safwan (@Sysafwann) countered the above reasoning by stating that Bumiputera parents send their children to SJKC because they “are aware that the management, environment, event sponsorship and co-curriculum at SJKC are far better than SK”.
“Besides, one will end up like Hilman Kadzri (most open) by studying in a 100% Bumiputera place ends up,” he teased with some pictorial evidence. “SK Rusila (in PAS president Tan Sri Hadi Awang’s parliamentary constituency) alumni once split Bumiputera into two in 1982.”
Another netizen Amar Ridzwan (@ridzwanamar267) also chided Anti Cyber Trooper for his out-of-place assessment for “the facts speak for themselves, sentiments only carried by propagandists” which the latter refused to accept.
As one netizen contended, it is not easy to enroll Malay children in Chinese schools “because there is a quota; the need to register the child as early as four years old; and having to send the kid to Chinese pre-school to gain a basic understanding of Mandarin, otherwise he’ll be rejected outright”.
As one netizen sums up, it should be “the SK that should be made SJKC” for the schools are “colour blind” and “are in line with the Look East Policy”. – March 24, 2024
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