Single stream School in Malaysia would not solve racial polarization problem in Malaysia

Tun Dr Mahatir (TDM) is at it again, this time the target is the Vernacular Schools.

What TDM conveniently forgotten to mention is the religious bigotry and racial discrimination being practiced in the national schools.

Ask any parents who had sent their kids to Sekolah Kebangsaan (the National Schools) and ask those who had attended those school. You would hear story how a kid is denied selection into the school football team because he's not a Malay. Some stories are even being published in the newspaper, like the teachers calling pupils names because these kids are non-malays, and stories like how the non-muslim kids are forced to hear Islamic preachings and how their religions being ridiculed in the open. Last but not least, the Biro Tatanegara (BTN) racist propaganda being shoved down the throat of those unfortunate enough to have to go through the indoctrination "courses".

Ask any old forks whom are fortunate enough to have attended schools in Malaysia in the 60's and you would hear why parents then prefer to send their kids to the national school. You would be told that the vernacular schools were not popular in the 60's as they were seen backward and low in standards. Whereas the National School were the choice of the day and many leaders were nurtured there.

Actually, Singapore have shown us that if we had good national schools, vernacular school would die a slow natural death. And that was what happened in the 60's. The vernacular schools at those time were dying a slow natural death, as parents rejected those school and kids were going to the National Schools.

It was BN's education policy that have given life to the Vernacular Schools. The politicized education policy adopted by BN made the standard of the national schools falling faster than a rock sinking to the bottom of the lake hence driving the parents away and the kids to the Vernacular Schools.

If you have bothered to check the history of all these "popular" vernacular schools you would noticed that their surge all started in the 70's. All thanks to BN, lead by the likes of TDM, who politicized education and in the process butchered the national schools.

Long gone the days when the National Schools were the pride of the nations, now when we speak of national schools, we speak of Islamization, racist slurs and discrimination, low professionalism teachers, and low in standards. These are the real reasons that parents do not want to send their kids to these schools, not because they don't want their kids to mix with other races as told by TDM. So TDM is lying through his teeth to cover up his own failure. He's the one responsible for the falling standards of national school as this was happening while he's at the helm of the government as The Education Minister and later the Prime Minister.

It's TDM's Education Policy that have cause the falling and the failing of the national schools that drives the parents away. That's why he is making racist comment now, just to pull wools over our eyes, just to stir up emotions so that we would overlooked the mess that is caused by none other but him: Tun Dr Mahatir, the butcher of our once prided national schools.