Parents of SK Assunta 1 and 2 were shocked when offer letters to register their year 6 daughters into SMK Assunta were not to be. Only 43 of 148 of SK1 and 17 of 139 of SK2 girls were offered into SMK Assunta, what was traditionally over the last 51 years, a 100% automatic transfer.
The Selangor education department denied knowledge and urged parents to enquire with the district education office. Reasons provided were found to be unacceptable causing the parents to stage a protest outside the school on Monday.
NTV7 aired the protest followed by reports in NST and vernacular dailies today. Within 12 hours of airing, the district education office had re-instated feeder school status to SK1 and 2 and announced that new letters of offer would be sent out immediately.
Recently, parents of SK1 and 2 had convened separate EGMs to take a vote on PPSMI. A resounding 96% wanted PPSMI to be retained.
Parents should exercise their rights. Syabas, Assunta!
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
PAGE appeals to education minister
The Edge Financial Daily
Friday, 06 November 2009 00:18
KUALA LUMPUR: A group of parents calling themselves the Parent Action Group for Education (PAGE) has appealed to the education minister to give national schools the option of maintaining the teaching of science and maths in English (PPSMI).
In a statement yesterday, PAGE chairperson Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim said a PAGE survey conducted in 2008 among parents throughout Malaysia showed 95% support for PPSMI to be continued.
“Tun Mahathir in his blog polled 84% against the government decision to abolish PPSMI. Even the ministry of education’s own telephone hotline survey showed over 90% of callers wanted PPSMI to be continued,” she said.
Noor Azimah said recently parents from seven schools in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya, which were able to do surveys and EGMs, returned a majority of 94% to 98% of parents wanting PPSMI.
She said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, in his blog, had explicitly rejected the idea of the single stream school because the rakyat was not ready for it. Noor Azimah questioned if the rakyat was ready or accepted the abolition of PPSMI in national schools.
“We sincerely thank our Prime Minister for respecting the spirit of the Education Act 1996 which calls for children to be educated according to the wishes of their parents.
“We hope our minister of education is able to emulate our honourable Prime Minister in respecting and honouring the wishes of parents by giving our national schools the option to choose or reject PPSMI. Parents wait for the education minister’s decision to appreciate 1Malaysia, People First,” she said.
Noor Azimah called on the ministry to let parents voice their wishes through parent-teacher association EGMs or AGMs. “Then we, the rakyat, will truly appreciate our prime minister’s call for 1Malaysia, People First,” she added.
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Friday, 06 November 2009 00:18
KUALA LUMPUR: A group of parents calling themselves the Parent Action Group for Education (PAGE) has appealed to the education minister to give national schools the option of maintaining the teaching of science and maths in English (PPSMI).
In a statement yesterday, PAGE chairperson Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim said a PAGE survey conducted in 2008 among parents throughout Malaysia showed 95% support for PPSMI to be continued.
“Tun Mahathir in his blog polled 84% against the government decision to abolish PPSMI. Even the ministry of education’s own telephone hotline survey showed over 90% of callers wanted PPSMI to be continued,” she said.
Noor Azimah said recently parents from seven schools in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya, which were able to do surveys and EGMs, returned a majority of 94% to 98% of parents wanting PPSMI.
She said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, in his blog, had explicitly rejected the idea of the single stream school because the rakyat was not ready for it. Noor Azimah questioned if the rakyat was ready or accepted the abolition of PPSMI in national schools.
“We sincerely thank our Prime Minister for respecting the spirit of the Education Act 1996 which calls for children to be educated according to the wishes of their parents.
“We hope our minister of education is able to emulate our honourable Prime Minister in respecting and honouring the wishes of parents by giving our national schools the option to choose or reject PPSMI. Parents wait for the education minister’s decision to appreciate 1Malaysia, People First,” she said.
Noor Azimah called on the ministry to let parents voice their wishes through parent-teacher association EGMs or AGMs. “Then we, the rakyat, will truly appreciate our prime minister’s call for 1Malaysia, People First,” she added.
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Support PPSMI / SK/SMK(SMI): Respond to PM by Friday
Dear Parents and Children Who Support PPSMI,
Our Prime Minister who champions 1Malaysia, People First, Performance Now, has explicitly put aside the idea of a single stream school because the rakyat is not ready for it.
He also acknowledges that the education system for Malaysia is politicised.
He wrote, "Over the years and at almost in every instance, the issue of the ideal education system for Malaysia is politicised. As the Prime Minister for all Malaysians, I view that all of us must find equilibrium. Let us all be reminded that at the end of the day, the crux of the issue is ensuring that our future generations, our future leaders, are able to obtain the best education system. We must make that leap into a knowledge- and innovation-based economy."
He is also seeking response/discussion on his blog on the issue of education.He will be chairing a Special Cabinet Meeting on Friday, so please respond to his blog (link below).
Remember, your first sentence is the most important sentence. Start positively with what you want:
1 SK/SMK(SMI) Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris; OR
2 Continue PPSMI in our school.
Do not forget to ask each and every child to respond too. We must respond before Friday. Let him hear the voice of the rakyat on this.
Please forward this email to as many pro-PPSMI parents as possible.
Best Regards
PAGE Malaysia
Najib blog: http://www.1malaysia.com.my/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=single-stream-schools.html&Itemid=54&lang=en#readmore
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Our Prime Minister who champions 1Malaysia, People First, Performance Now, has explicitly put aside the idea of a single stream school because the rakyat is not ready for it.
He also acknowledges that the education system for Malaysia is politicised.
He wrote, "Over the years and at almost in every instance, the issue of the ideal education system for Malaysia is politicised. As the Prime Minister for all Malaysians, I view that all of us must find equilibrium. Let us all be reminded that at the end of the day, the crux of the issue is ensuring that our future generations, our future leaders, are able to obtain the best education system. We must make that leap into a knowledge- and innovation-based economy."
He is also seeking response/discussion on his blog on the issue of education.He will be chairing a Special Cabinet Meeting on Friday, so please respond to his blog (link below).
Remember, your first sentence is the most important sentence. Start positively with what you want:
1 SK/SMK(SMI) Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris; OR
2 Continue PPSMI in our school.
Do not forget to ask each and every child to respond too. We must respond before Friday. Let him hear the voice of the rakyat on this.
Please forward this email to as many pro-PPSMI parents as possible.
Best Regards
PAGE Malaysia
Najib blog: http://www.1malaysia.com.my/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=single-stream-schools.html&Itemid=54&lang=en#readmore
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Monday, November 2, 2009
96% of Parents Want SK/SMK (SMI)
On Saturday, 31 October 2009, SK Assunta 1, Petaling Jaya, conducted an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to vote on SK/SMK (SMI). An astounding 96.3% of the parents who attended wanted to maintain PPSMI in their school.
Earlier, SMK St Xavier's Institution, Penang, convened its EGM and an astonishing 94% of parents want PPSMI to remain.
What is your school doing about it? Time is ticking fast.
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Earlier, SMK St Xavier's Institution, Penang, convened its EGM and an astonishing 94% of parents want PPSMI to remain.
What is your school doing about it? Time is ticking fast.
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Saturday, October 24, 2009
PAGE serah Memo kepada Perdana Menteri
PAGE telah menyerahkan sepucuk Memorandum kepada Perdana Menteri melalui Pejabat Perdana Menteri untuk memohon supaya diberi opsyen secara rasmi bagi mengekalkan sains dan matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris (SMI) di sekolah kebangsaan dan sekolah menengah kebangsaan.
Ia juga mencadangkan supaya diperkenalkan kategori baru iaitu SK/SMK(SMI) untuk sekolah-sekolah yang terbabit. Permohonan tersebut tidak bertentangan dengan Perlembagaan Persekutuan ataupun Akta Pendidikan 1996.
Memorandum tersebut juga telah dipanjangkan kepada seluruh Jemaah Menteri, beberapa orang Timbalan Menteri, Tun serta Tan Sri yang terpilih dan menyokong perjuangan PAGE.
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Ia juga mencadangkan supaya diperkenalkan kategori baru iaitu SK/SMK(SMI) untuk sekolah-sekolah yang terbabit. Permohonan tersebut tidak bertentangan dengan Perlembagaan Persekutuan ataupun Akta Pendidikan 1996.
Memorandum tersebut juga telah dipanjangkan kepada seluruh Jemaah Menteri, beberapa orang Timbalan Menteri, Tun serta Tan Sri yang terpilih dan menyokong perjuangan PAGE.
UNTUK ANAK-ANAK MALAYSIA
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Thursday, October 1, 2009
PPSMI The Answer..
The Star: Tuesday September 29, 2009
Country must bring back its talents, says Najib
KUALA LUMPUR: The country must bring back its talents and provide incentives to keep them home if it plans to have an innovation-led economy where its primary driver is based on science, technology and innovation (STI), said the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.He said in order to achieve this, the country needs to develop high calibre STI human capital and make it a priority in mainstream economic planning.
“We need more scientists and researchers. We need more innovators.
“We need pioneers in science and technology,” he said in his speech at the Mahathir Science Award 2008 and 2009 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) last night.He said the country must identify reasons for its inability to nurture a bigger number of science professionals and if it is a brain drain, it must find ways of reversing it.
Present during the award presentation were his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili and Academy of Sciences Malaysia president Tan Sri Dr Yusof Basiron.
The Mahathir Science Award 2008 awarded by Academy of Sciences Malaysia, was bestowed on Prof Dr Gurdev Singh Khush for his contribution to tropical agriculture in developing several new rice varieties which helped in reducing global hunger.
The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) was conferred the Mahathir Science Award 2009, in the category of Tropical Natural Resources for its role in the development of the rubberwood furniture industry in Malaysia and globally.
A simple solution is to maintain PPSMI. Incidentally, Academy of Sciences Malaysia is a staunch supporter of PPSMI. Along with PAGE, we created more than a ripple at last year's roundtable. Yet politics rules, the end of the day, and what secures the votes!
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Country must bring back its talents, says Najib
KUALA LUMPUR: The country must bring back its talents and provide incentives to keep them home if it plans to have an innovation-led economy where its primary driver is based on science, technology and innovation (STI), said the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.He said in order to achieve this, the country needs to develop high calibre STI human capital and make it a priority in mainstream economic planning.
“We need more scientists and researchers. We need more innovators.
“We need pioneers in science and technology,” he said in his speech at the Mahathir Science Award 2008 and 2009 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) last night.He said the country must identify reasons for its inability to nurture a bigger number of science professionals and if it is a brain drain, it must find ways of reversing it.
Present during the award presentation were his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili and Academy of Sciences Malaysia president Tan Sri Dr Yusof Basiron.
The Mahathir Science Award 2008 awarded by Academy of Sciences Malaysia, was bestowed on Prof Dr Gurdev Singh Khush for his contribution to tropical agriculture in developing several new rice varieties which helped in reducing global hunger.
The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) was conferred the Mahathir Science Award 2009, in the category of Tropical Natural Resources for its role in the development of the rubberwood furniture industry in Malaysia and globally.
A simple solution is to maintain PPSMI. Incidentally, Academy of Sciences Malaysia is a staunch supporter of PPSMI. Along with PAGE, we created more than a ripple at last year's roundtable. Yet politics rules, the end of the day, and what secures the votes!
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
History repeats itself..
Quoted from Challenging Times
(Pelanduk Publications 2007)
TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN wrote in 1984:
"I realised there were rumblings in the party for a change in leadership in my time. The issue was over the use of the Malay language to replace English at the government, parliamentary and university levels.
My objection was whether it was prudent to replace English in high places of learning such as universities where we must continue to employ English as the main medium of instruction.
The Malay language had not had a good start and not been given time to develop as yet, and no books were available in Malay on science and technology and other spheres of high education.
The Malay language was not advanced enough to take over from English to provide the right type of education for the progressive people.
The main aim in entering the university was to get the best education possible. Half education is no education at all. This young newly-born nation of ours depends so much on good leadership and this can only come with good education.
Some of the students who did not have basic English education were opposed to the education policy which I advocated.
The University of Malaya, the Mara College and the Malay Language Institute held hostile demonstrations against me.
The Ministers who wanted to ride on the wave of popularity and see the last of me also joined them secretly. But I stood my ground because I felt Malaya must be served by well-educated and dedicated leaders or else the future would be bleak."
It looks like history has repeated itself, that times haven't changed and many years on, we have instead regressed. Tunku would have been saddened by this decision to revert.
FOR OUR CHILDREN
(Pelanduk Publications 2007)
TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN wrote in 1984:
"I realised there were rumblings in the party for a change in leadership in my time. The issue was over the use of the Malay language to replace English at the government, parliamentary and university levels.
My objection was whether it was prudent to replace English in high places of learning such as universities where we must continue to employ English as the main medium of instruction.
The Malay language had not had a good start and not been given time to develop as yet, and no books were available in Malay on science and technology and other spheres of high education.
The Malay language was not advanced enough to take over from English to provide the right type of education for the progressive people.
The main aim in entering the university was to get the best education possible. Half education is no education at all. This young newly-born nation of ours depends so much on good leadership and this can only come with good education.
Some of the students who did not have basic English education were opposed to the education policy which I advocated.
The University of Malaya, the Mara College and the Malay Language Institute held hostile demonstrations against me.
The Ministers who wanted to ride on the wave of popularity and see the last of me also joined them secretly. But I stood my ground because I felt Malaya must be served by well-educated and dedicated leaders or else the future would be bleak."
It looks like history has repeated itself, that times haven't changed and many years on, we have instead regressed. Tunku would have been saddened by this decision to revert.
FOR OUR CHILDREN
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