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ban UiTM. Ban MRSM. Ban MARA. Ban sekolah Agama. Ban Matrikulasi stream

It will never materialize as long as we have extremists like UMNO and DAP.

Datuk Mukhriz, what about the polarisation that could occur when those children grow up and go to different universities. MRSM, MARA college and UiTM exclusively for one race also can promote polarisation.

I believe many leaders refuse to see the reality of the whole issue prevailing in our national schools today. The stated policy is one thing, the practices of some of those 'educated teachers' is something else. The other community have lost total faith in the system! We can all see the good thing of a single school system but the majority of those involved seem to have their own agenda.
In this respect, I like to quote my neighbour's daughter's story: Her teacher was so obsessed with her faith that she started preaching in her class. One of her argument against the consumption of certain meat was it would make you less clever. This had happened before, until one of the boys stood up and told her that ' You bohang, Che gu!. 'My family eat the meat [ Bah Kut Teh ]every morning before we go to school and both my brother and sister scored all As!!

I think, it's not about whether 1Malaysia or 2Malaysia or whatsoever name given. If the credibility on the GOVERMAN is good and trustworthy, anything works. Unfortunately, all the Bee End are hopeless and there is no credential on them. Thats why the 1Malaysia is understood as 1BeeEnd, 1Umknow, 1Najis....the PeeM has lost his creditials by not answering so many questions and with so many incidents that has happened like Altaaantuya, Bala, the Perak Crisis and so many more. In regardless of what the BeeEnd do, it will be a BIG NO from me on the next GE. What do u guys say?

Mukhriz, the solution does not lie in a single stream. If you think that by mastering "Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Tamil, thus achieving the objective of a harmonious 1 Malaysia," you are sadly mistaken. There will be no harmonious 1Malaysia as long as UMNO plays its racist politics and robs the rakyat for the benefit of the few UMNOputras. National unity can come about only when UMNO and its BN partners begin to drop all race-based politics and focus on common goals that we can all share as Malaysians.

Turning all primary schools into national schools will not solve the problem because most parents have very little confidence in the quality of national schooling. They will turn instead to private schools or, in the case of UMNOputras and their BN partners, to international schools. The solution lies in building up the quality of national schools to the extent that parents of all ethnic groups want their children in rather than out. It means that we must stop playing race-based politics in education and focus instead on quality schooling for all. It means putting in place administrators and teachers based on their academic and pedagogical abilities, not their ethnicity. It means putting quality principals incharge of how their schools ought to operate rather than bureaucrats are have no idea of what's going on at the school level. It means making schools accountable to parents and students, for instance, by producing school report cards so that parents can see where their children's school stand in relation to others. It means setting high standards for all our schools. It means we have to benchmark our schools against the best in the world. Above all, it means we stop playing politics with education for the sake of our children and their future.

So simplistic! We are not so stupid to be sold.

Even if you have one culture, one religion, one language, one school -
Look around the world, they still kill each other in their own country.

The common language we need to learn is respect for people, their human rights and the rule of law written in any number languages.

To beinghuman_007,

I would like to add your list......... ban victor from Malaysia altogether.

It will never materialize as long as we have extremists like UMNO. (full-stop)

Very stupid! Who are practically in the so-called RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS. Is that really multi racial? Then better change the conmstitution too... no more SPECIAL PRIVILEGES for more than half the citizens of Malaysia. OK, stupid moron !

It's very good of Mukhriz to even think of ways to make 1Malaysia a reality, in this case, through single stream in schooling.
But any bright idea to make 1Malaysiaworks, for long-term good of Malaysia, be it from Dr M's son, will come to nothing if the UMNO-controlled newspapers, like Utusan Malaysia, continue to plant divisive racial mistrust and even hatred, obviously sanctioned by the top UMNO leaders, for shor-term political gain.
Putting the various races together, like in one stream schooling, on the one hand, and yet stiring up racial discord, on the other hand, is liken to experimenting with home-made fire-crackers, to see if it will become an instrument of celebration that others give credit for, or tools of destruction that is explosive and damaging that may leave a permanent scar to regret over.

Whether 1 stream or more, Mukhriz, the quality of teaching in our education system is most important. Don't lose sight of thus. Like many things in Malaysia, what was once good is no longer. Concentrate on improving the quality of teaching, and soon most Malaysian parents will send their children to the national schools. And less to the vernacular ones. Don't lose sight of this, Mukhirz.

beinghuman_007,

UTAR's medium of instruction is English and there's no restriction on the ethnicity of students willing to enroll. Unlike UiTM where non-Ma... ah well, you should know.

123malaysian is right. Its the quality of teaching that is paramount. You can have any number of streams, any number or combination of languages, the best equipped labs, the biggest and greenest fields; but if our teachers are poor in quality and training, then it is all moot. And thats where things are right now; at least with our national schools.

In Europe and in USA, the Governments does not subsidise nor support vernacular schools. In the Asian region, Japan, China, Phillipines, Indonesia, Thailand, etc ALL practice Single stream schools with additional languages as the second or even the third subjects.

WHY IS THIS COUNTRY HAVING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FOR DIFFERENT SCHOOLS? WHY DO THE GOVERNMENT HAVE TO SUPPORT OR SUBSIDISE THESE SCHOOLS? HOW CAN THIS GOVERNMENT TRULY ACHIEVE ONE MALAYSIA WITH ONE MALAYSIANS IF THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUE AND WORSE STILL SCARED OF THE MINORITY GROUPS ALL BECAUSE OF THEIR VOTES???

Can this country really achieve a harmonious society when each and every race have their own language and own schools? NO WAY TILL END OF TIME ! BUT FOR SURE YOU CAN MAKE THIS COUNTRY A ' TIME BOMB ' BECAUSE ALL IT NEED ARE POLITICIANS WHO USES RACE AND RELIGION FOR THEIR PERSONAL GAINS AND POLITICAL GAINS.

My suggestion is just have TWO TYPE OF Language in the schools. One in Bahasa Malaysia and One in English so we can compete globally.

haha so funny reading all the comments here...when one side insist abolish the srjkc and srjkt as usual the other side will mention mrsm, uitm etc..what a bunch of hypocrite..i think what mukhriz said is abolished it altogether

tell me where in the world had this kind of school...even their ass-worship singapore also have single school sysytem..

ur comments has proved and reflect how these schools have FAILED in uniting the races...Malaysians are so funny...everyone want their privilege

One Malaysia is one of the BIGGEST LIE to Non-Malays.

One Malaysia is just a Cover-up for Discrminination and Racism.

And Education cannot solve Racism & Discrimination

Well, you got to terminate sekolah agama and MARA. These school only allow Malays.

PS. This is BS. BN government already has a 1Malaysia school. That was the sekolah kebangsaan (even its name say so). And see how that worked out?!

Here we go again....somehow people just can't let go of the past instead of moving forward.

First, they retracted of teaching Maths & Science in English and now some senseless proposal of condensing the school education into a single stream. Seeing how packed the class schedules in schools are, the teaching of mother languages will somehow be neglected and this is of disadvantage to the students.

So to curb this, parents will either opt to send their kids for more tuitions or alternatively send them off to international schools. This is hand translates to heavier financial burdens for the parents and unnecessary stress for the students. Totally, no life for the kids!!

Instead of moving forward in the education system, we are moving backwards.....let's go back to how things were done in the past. Remember how things were managed in the 1950s'.........ermmm..HELLO!!!! We are in the 20th century now, STOP TALKING ABOUT THE PAST!!!!!!!

What are the leaders of the country thinking????? Day by day showing us more of their stupidity!! Can't even think and plan properly, only know how to go to Parliament to scream and yell obscenities to one another!! MORONS!!

I dont understand all these critics. If you separate children from young into different racial schoolings do you expect them, when they are adult, to discard all the racial prejudices.? If malays, chinese and indians don't do things together, laugh together, learn together etc from young, do you expect them not to have racial tendencies? You guys criticise others as racists but actually dont mind perpetuating these racists tendencies. You guys are absolutely crazy.

When I was young I had two very good friends. Together we had malay, indian and chinese. We did school activities together, learnt together, ate together, celebrate together and suffered together as well. My kids dont have this chance. A class would normally comprise of 97%++ of the same race. They will never have that oppportunity to have other races as best friends. Why? Because we selflessly separate them from schools. We expect them not to be racists but we divide them from young. And here we ask why we are racists? Ask the man in the mirror first.

To Victor & beinghuman_007,

I like to point out here is, those SRJK schools, private Chinese schools & UTAR do not impose intake only for certain ethnic or religion. I believe religious schools also do not stop any non-Muslim who are sincerely willing to learn Islamic knowledge to study there. All these schools do not implement discrimination based on ethnic or religion. It is open to all if anyone willing to study there.

But in the case of UiTM, MARA colleges and Matriculations, they impose restriction on intake to only certain ethnic groups. Even students from certain ethnic background wish to study in those institutions, they are either restricted with certain small quota or totally unable to get in. This is a kind of institutional discrimination. And is very unhealthy for social integration, against the principle of equal opportunity and deprive the civil rights for all citizens.

And what to do with Petaling Street, Jalan Masjid India and restaurants in Jalan Alor? If you like to shopping or eating there, they will not stop you but even welcoming you. Just that you may not want to go there. You are discriminating them for whatever reasons, not they discriminate you. The logic has to be clear here.

He could not be more wrong ... for Malaysia to be a united nation, all the corrupted Bun of Nitwits and practices must first be removed ... they are parasites to the land.

How can a single stream school be successful if only Muslim students are given the chance to practice their
religion.In certain Chinese School dishes containing pork are sold. Other race too want to preserve their culture and language not just the Malays.Single stream school should include morning prayer from other faith too not just Muslim morning prayer. On top of that the quality of the single stream school must be improved, to lure the Chinese student and English should replace the Malay language in our education system. The Chinese are more attracted to education system that is deliver in english such as UEC

rini,
right, we should make English the main stream as this is the most useful language in the world. Do it right the first time if you want to change.

Other countries like Japan, Indonesia do not have "race-based" policies as well, we should follow them and abolish all "race-based" policies in Malaysia too.

1stream is good... but dear YB mukhriz, wouldn't it be better if you suggest 1race? all race are allowed to have mixed marriages. You can't be racist to a mixed. As time passes and we have more mixed children... we will only have 1race and hence 1malaysia.

Evolution wise, it is alot beneficial for the offspring as mixed children reduces in-breeding possibility. We are programmed not to in-breed and research has shown that in-breeding produces less bright offspring to say the least.

Historically wise, we have also done it before. Back in the era of Malacca empire, when Chinese people came they married local people. Hence, we have what we called baba and nyonya.

Globally, as the advancement of air transportation, the world become smaller and smaller. More and more interaction between people of different races. Hence, there are more and more mixed marriages nowadays. Even Obama is a mixed between a black and a white.

So you see... for the benefit of human race.... get mixing ;)

We already know how to interact - but this is not the destination we want.

First deliver equal rights and equal opportunities, then we talk about 1Malaysia.
(as though just because you can communicate means the discrimination will end).

Mukriz, I'll support you only if English is the main medium @ school and all the other languages like BM, Mandarin and Tamil made electives.

A useless topic by a racist whose main intention is only to benefit one race while enslaving the rest like in the razak and mahathir years. Thanks to utusan toilet paper, the voters don't give a piss to your gibberish nonsense!

Mukhriz,
Why don't you open UMNO to all races?

Single stream school is good provided that everybody agrees that a language should be used as the unifying factor in the nation building. Razak Report was done before independence and should have been followed through by the education ministers that came after him. Malay is the easiest language to learn and is used extensively by all communities especially in inter community communications. Use this as a uniting factor for the nation. Many countries use language as the uniting factor like US, Indonesia and some of the South American countries.
The problem with us is not that the population do not accept Malay to be the uniting factor but the implementation is too zealous and race centered. The ketuanan Melayu concept has made non Malays hate the Malays and everything Malay including the language. We should abandon anybody ketuanan concept and just accept and make Malay language to be the national language and incorporate as many words from the other languages as possible to make it more convenient and friendly. Improve the language to suit the various races in the country. We don't to import English and Arabic words too much we can depend on Mandarin, Tamil, Iban and Kadazan words to enlarge the language and make the language truly Malaysian.
On the other hand the various vernacular languages should be made as elective subjects for the students to master and teach the languages including the cultures as well so that the students appreciates the various positives and sensitivities of the other races in the country. English can be used at the tertiary levels for advance knowledge.

My opinion is that UMNO is trying its best to play race cards and any other divisive issues to split those that are opposed to their grip on power. If the opposition and the rest of law abiding decent rakyat like everyone here play into their hands, then we deserve the type of corrupt and inefficient government we have now. Kita semua rugi.

Just think about these:
- Muhyiddin Yassin, "Anwar a traitor to Malay"
- Utusan, "DAP anti Islam"
- Mukhriz, "One school system"

These are statements design to arouse communal sentiments!

The key to one school system is not to ban. The key is to improve the national schools to be so attractive that parents of all races would want to send their children there voluntarily. But achieve this objective fairly by not restricting or robbing vernacular schools of their rights to funding. After all, these schools have been producing equal number of towering Malaysians and contributing to the country since day one.

The important task is for us to have a two party system. This will give check and balance to good governance. As PR is at its infancy, support them. If they screw up later, we vote BN again. This way, kita semua untung.

Dear Brighteyes, I'm sorry to disappoint you. I didn't study in UiTM or any Malaysian schools per se. I suggest you study the establishment of UiTM and other organizations by Tun Razak. Probably you could enrol in the Political Studies in Continuing Education course to understand it. And since these organizations/establishments were called to be put off by Victor might as well Malaysia abolishes everything and anything to do with the racial connection. And we, Malaysia could also stop celebrating all the non-religion festivities such as Chinese New Year. So, no more a two-day public holiday shall be included in the PH calendar. Enough said, I rest my case from here. I'm not interested to touch on the one-sided race argument as it will only waste my time. More time is needed to guide my non-Malay staff to act professionally in their work after I've been receiving complaints again and again from the MNC customers.

Nothing personal, Mr/Ms beinghuman-007, but your English is terrible. Maybe you should help yourself first before you want to guide your non-malay staff to act professionally in their work.

beinghuman_007,

If you have not studied in any Malaysian schools, kindly be silent on this matter. You have no idea how bad things are. You have never experience what it is like to NOT want to wear the tudung, the challenges of making friends with people who are not of your race. Strangely it is the teachers who are your foes.

You have no idea what it is like to have the entire school, your entire society trying to define you by a single facet of your being. My religion is not the end all, be all of me. It is a tiny facet that was blown out of proportion when my family move back to this hloe.

I am not my race or my religion. I am me. It seems neither society or government can understand that.

Dear Lucius,

That will be unconstitutional. The racists Be End can agree to your "Only if" condition to violate the constitution and use English instead of BM. But what if they set their condition that 'jus soli' principle on citizenship is to be withdrawn, are you willing to agree?

Then close down all International Sxhools, Private Schools, Religious Schools, Venacular Schools and the rich should bring back their children from overseas to study in Malaysian schools where 1 language is used as the medium. My dear politician, don;t practice double-standard and stop cheating the people.

I totally agree with Mukhriz. The Government should implement a single stream school system starting from 2010. Why all this talk only? Just do it for the sake of our country.

banana

agreed, 1stream is the way to go.. user 'Ellese' has a good point. It need to start early.

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