"Pick neighbourhood schools, parents urged"

[idolfan]

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11:
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Look to your neighbourhoods in selecting schools for your children, parents are advised.


Registering children only in schools with a good reputation results in overcrowding at these schools and could adversely affect the learning environment, said Education director-general Datuk Ahmad Sipon today.

Ahmad said all schools had the same facilities and the ministry had worked to ensure they all had good teachers. Therefore, every school was a good school, he said.

"It’s easier if the school is near your home so you will not have to waste time sending your children to school.

"For instance, we get too many applications from parents to send their children to schools in USJ.

"My advice is that parents should not be too choosy as all schools are the same and the ministry works to ensure that all schools perform well," he told the New Straits Times after presenting school bags to several underprivileged children at a hotel here.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Thursday/National/20060112070404/Article/index_html


Is there any hope when authorities refuse to see the current state of schools.

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Ahmad said all schools had the same facilities and the ministry had worked to ensure they all had good teachers. Therefore, every school was a good school, he said.



Well, don't just say it....prove it! Easier said than done. Another example of govt. officials not finding out the facts before they babble... :mad:

[lini idris]

Totally agreed! In my area this particular Chinese schools are sooo congested
but parents still insists to enroll their children there! :eek:

[joker2107]

Look to your neighbourhoods in selecting schools for your children, parents are advised.

"My advice is that parents should not be too choosy as all schools are the same and the ministry works to ensure that all schools perform well,"

i hv nothing agst foreigners sharing in d bounty of my homeland, nothing agst being friendly wit em. but i dont wanna hv a part in churning out a kid with mentality of a southern-western neighbour (not d small brother; d long long 1 maybe). we might as well call d sch nearest my home an international sch since a good no. of kids there r supposedly kids of parents who supposedly hold what they formerly called "red ic". n 7, 8,9 yr olds smoking? or parading in near bday costume? or whose other home is d roof which shelters their families - d their home is cyber cafes n entertainment centers n backlanes n ........