School: Pee fees

The government had scrapped all schools fees for primary and secondary schools. That was good news, but, we have more astonishing news.

Some schools wants the pupils to pay for maintenance and repairs. Other payments required include:

Examination papers
Annual sports
Islamic and Moral activities
Insurance
Malaysian School Sports Council
PAFA record book
School rules & regulation guidebook
Ethics book
Report card
School badge
Sports T-shirt
Track suit
Name tag
Monthly Assessment and report cards

And some pupils even have to pay school’s pee fee. A secondary school in Tanjung Malim is charging students 10 sen if they want to use the toilet during “non-recess” periods. It was reported that the toilet charges started about two years ago and money collected was to be used to repair the toilets.

What has happened to our government? They scrap school fees, and we are suppose to celebrate. But, the ministry had no money to pay for repairs and maintenance, and all other expenses, and parents have to pay.

Did we have improved governmental system or are we reclassifying things and thus creating pariah system of management. It's like saying, you can eat anything free in that restaurant for as long as you had paid an entry fees of $100 per person per entry. You can use the toilet free if you are a member of the toilet association whose membership fees is $1000 per month. Free lunch? Free education? Free petrol? Free fuck! But pay first, thereafter it will be free!

Today's News in Brief

JKR and Project News

Samy Vellu says contractors' whose project are delayed must buck up or be terminated.

Samy, did you know why so many projects delayed? Did they tell you?

Many projects were delayed because:

(1) Construction design and drawings were not issued to the contractor as scheduled;

(2) Too much changes to design, modification and alteration of design and quality, and changes requested by Clients (requests by the ministries themselves);

(3) In adequate design and lack of information due to consulting engineers fault;

(4) Late payments and delay in certification of payments and under-certification of claims that resulted in contractors facing cash flow problems;

(5) Late appointment of Nominated Sub-contractors and delay in the approval of shopdrawings by the consulting engineers, largely due to the inadequate design information and changes;

(6) Incompetent contractors selected by the Ministry or EPU who bulldozed the award even though JKR had objected to the appointment;

(7) Incompetent Minister and gross interference from him; etc, etc.

Samy, bad apples must go...

It must also apply to ministers, too!

Of course there are quite some incompetent civil servants, most of whom are politically well-connected, and well-connected to Samy himself.

There are also a few high ranking senior officers who refused to learn, refused to accept criticisms and suggestions of improvements, and worst of all, take actions to marginalise those who made critical comments of their weakness. I was one of them, sir.

Reshuffling the national school curriculum

Dear Hisham, keep tinkering...

You will not find the answer to our educational problem.

The problem doesn't lie just with the curriculum. It lies with the administration. Look at the headmasters and teachers... you can discover the profound knowledge there!!!




Oh, BTW, cheating in schools have improved and advance with the need to reshuffle the curriculum.

This is the Paradox!

The ministry wants to manufacture more graduates...

The school also have to assist in generating them; and if they can't, there is always an innovative way, something similar in our universities... assistance.

You too, Mr PM... & your SIL too!