Umno Youth exco: Closing SJKC, SJKT better for unity than inclusive history
Published: Feb 25, 2025 12:14 PM
Updated: 3:24 PM
Summary
- Umno Youth exco Wan Zuhir Ghazali questions why efforts to abolish vernacular schools are opposed.
- He argues it is better for unity for school children to mingle and speak the same language.
- This is in response to a DAP MP's proposal that the history of all Malaysian races be taught in school.
An Umno Youth exco member has argued that it would be better to close vernacular schools to foster unity instead of teaching the history of all Malaysian races to school children.
This was in response to a DAP lawmaker suggesting that the history of all Malaysian races be included in formal education.
Wan Zuhir Ghazali asserted that it was more important to have unity in school syllabuses, as well as for children of different races to interact with one another.
"Not just being selective. Segregated. Schools according to certain races. Learning different syllabuses. In fact, history in vernacular schools is not taught in the national language.
"You can't just teach theory, when there is no practice of unity from the start. Mingling and speaking in one language is most important to foster unity.
"If we demand for a single stream school and to abolish vernacular schools, why do you oppose it?" he said in a statement today.
This was in response to a DAP lawmaker suggesting that the history of all Malaysian races be included in formal education.
Wan Zuhir Ghazali asserted that it was more important to have unity in school syllabuses, as well as for children of different races to interact with one another.
"Not just being selective. Segregated. Schools according to certain races. Learning different syllabuses. In fact, history in vernacular schools is not taught in the national language.
"You can't just teach theory, when there is no practice of unity from the start. Mingling and speaking in one language is most important to foster unity.
"If we demand for a single stream school and to abolish vernacular schools, why do you oppose it?" he said in a statement today.
Umno Youth exco Wan Zuhir Ghazali
Mixed demographics
Vernacular schools are not race segregated, with Chinese schools becoming an increasingly popular choice with Malays.
It was reported last week that all year one students enrolled in SJKC Kong Aik in Mata Ayer, Perlis were not Chinese.
In fact, 93 of the 190 students at the school were Malay.
SJKC and its Tamil counterpart SJKT also follow the same syllabus as national schools.
However, independent Chinese schools have a different syllabus.
Yesterday, Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong suggested that primary school history textbooks should include the history of all races in Malaysia.
He argued this would help with fostering national unity from a young age.
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