Bad Day

"When it comes to the topic about our country's education system,disappointment is the only words I can conclude..."


Basically,this country has divided the primary school system into mainly 3 mediums,Malay-the sekolah kebangsaan(SK) formerly sekolah rendah kebangsaan,Chinese,Tamil and others-sekolah jenis kebangsaan(SJK) formerly known as sekolah rendah jenis kebangsaan.Thus,all the typical and wise Chinese parents will try their very best to gain an entry for their children to enter the Chinese medium primary school in the light of hoping to give their children the best educaction of all.But the thing is "we have over-sufficient of bowl but it's not enough to accommodate all the rice we have" situation where the number of people designated to this is practically not enough.Yes,I'm talking about the fact that we have only maybe 1 or none Chinese medium primary school in our small community but then the irony is,there are maybe 2 or 3 SK in a community with Chinese majority.This is the thing that happens on me in real life.So,must we be satisfied or thank the government for granting us a stingy amount of one SJK in approx. radius of 100km or maybe more than that?As a true Malaysian,we all know that what's good and what's not as we are not a bunch of dumbass or puppet that constantly manipulate on the state's discretion.Paradoxically and historically,we are and will always be.Trade unions and political parties have tried all their best all the time to request for SJK but then when it reaches to the relevant minister,he/she will simply flick his/her finger and shoo it off,and there goes he/she will continuing boosting the manifesto as how they gonna do to improve our education system,how they wanna let all the citizen to receive good education,how they'll expect the average standard of the performance of the students to increase due to the brilliant reform that made by them and so on.In the end,we shall see the jokes.On the other hand,it's very pitiful for those parents that couldn't find a place for their children to settle down.If they are well off,that won't be any problem as money oriented Private based Schools and International Schools are always gesturing with warm welcome to them.The problem is those family that hardly get their two ends meet will have to seek for alternative way or maybe send their children to a SJK that situated in a further neighbourhood,worse to worse,they'll just have to accept the faith and send them to the neighbourhood's SK which will eventually lead them to misery.On the other senario,people in JB having another better option which is to send their children across the causeway to let their children immerse in one of the world best education system.Ironically,both countries are sitting side by side and used to be as one yet after separation,formed two pronged scenes.Sometimes ago,we used to adopt English medium education due to the influence from British colonial times but in order to show how great and influential of our national language,they abolished it and started off using Malay as medium since then only came to realise that somehow it has flaws anyway and can't be competitive internaltionally somehow.Therefore,dramatically they reformed it within a short period of time and switch back to the English medium based system retrospectively.If only we could just stick to that we would have be having an education system which is in equivalent standard as our southern neigbouring country.While credit is where credit due,indeed,the politicians have make a greatest joke on their citizens.Have we ever noticed that we have been toying all the while and ended up in confusing and obsolescence?Certainly we do but our voices are just so trivial that can be easily bypassed by the ruling party.

For unknown reason,we used to have this "remove" form in every government funded secondary schools that specially and particularly made for those that couldn't get satisfactory result on their Bahasa Melayu and all other subjects or Bahasa Melayu alone.With this,the vast majority ethnic that flooded the remove form's classes were the Chinese and some Indians.While for Malays,they can be automatically graded up to the mainstream,FORM 1.Chinese and Indians all thrown behind then.For now,we are/were unanimously forced to learn things in Malay eventhough for the sciences.And now it has been changed to English but only applicable to science subject.And still,they are tought in broken English because the teachers that teaching all still the same as they are taught in Malay during their time in teacher's college.This is what we called "changing the soup without changing the remedy" where after a big detour will still comes back to the same end.Again,we have so many "used to have" such as the PTS which enable the students that pass the test to leap over from Std. 3 to Std. 5.Somehow,it's not appropriate for an early stage of education to have short cut route.Thus,abolished.Now,rumour has said that PMR,UPSR...are going to be abolished soon as the government wants to adopt British kind of education system(like the one Singapore is having now).As the government has been encouraging the development of science and technology all these years.Students mostly put science stream on the greatest and top priority where if you are from science stream,you are something but if you are not,you are nothing.Multitudes of students are bildfolded and chose science stream only to realise that it's not suitable for them but who to blame?Under our education system,science students are the top students and they'll have it all but the arts and commerce one will left in rotten or theoratically they shall be the hopeless bunch.Eventually,science stream students will look down on the arts stream's and form their own elite's communities to get isolated from other streams students.Now,we are having imbalance of students in different streams.It will leads to a big problem in future.Apart from that,our education system only teaches us to learn from the books but not encouraging real life experiencing at all.In fact,those straight A's students for me are just a bunch of people who can read and memorise diligently but practically they are nothing.For some strange reasons,students that make it to the straight A's,medicine is the only course they'll going to pursue further in future.Why?I don't know "because they say that it can earns more money than the others"...that will be the common phrases that those straight A's candidates will tell u "privately" of course not to the media,of course they will tell the media how they like to study medicine,how they have been inspired,how they feel like they wanted to help the others and yada yada...all craps but their main objective is $.Cut the craps and face the truth!I hate to admit that,as a truly citizen that born in Malaysia and grew up locally.We are treated differently.Our higher institution and public universities are no longer meant for us but predominated but single ethnic.However,we are out of that ethnic and we all know that we can't get any shelter under the public uni. anymore unless we strive hard to get all A's.As for those who can't get I'm sorry either you are granted with an entry but without being able to choose your own course that you interested or none of them that you are actually being left oblivion.You decide yourself anyway.But look,our fellow "bumiputra" friends can easily enter to public uni. without any barrier and still get to choose their favourite courses.The left over will be taken by us.Can our education still be trusted under these circumstances?It could downright destroy the spirit and potential of young Malaysians. How do you expect someone to excel in something that they have no interest in? How do you expect someone who has no formative skills in something to succeed in it? How do you expect a bunch of misplaced students to lead this country in the future?

Well,for those that can afford,they'll be sent to private institution or just wave goodbye to Malaysia and won't ever think of coming back.For me,I'll prefer the latter.I'll will be rather nonchalantly and standoffish of me to say that you're better off to get yourself into the private institution doing what you really want than wasting your time in public uni.You can't force yourself afterall because this is concerning your future.

By all odds,being a by-product of Malaysian education system,I've learnt a lesson from it which I will use up all my strength and energy to work my ass off in order not to let my children follow the same way as I did.I want to give them the best that Malaysia couldn't give me.I have to safeguard their journey and optimism as mine has been torn apart long time ago.

In nutshell,we shall see what's gonna happen in future and how our education gonna encounter the next innovation trend.Somehow,all I know is Malaysian education system can't be able to foster or nurture any brilliant student unless they are gifted and born to be a talented student.Otherwise,they're just a buch of study machine that control over by the desparing and misgoverned education system.