National Schools Need to Change.

When a sick man visits a doctor it is important that he diagnose the patient and makes the right prognosis.Based on his diagnosis, the doctorwill prescribe the right medication for his ailment.If this prognosis is correct the patient will recover fromthe prescibed medication and if his diagnosis is wrong the patient will not recover and the situation could even worsen.This analogy is similar to what our leaders are attempting to solve in the dearth of nonmalays in National schools.
Our leaders, P.M included doesn't have aclue why chinese parents opt to send their children to vernacular schools.In this case they think that by introducing Chinese and Tamil language classes nonmalay parents will send their children to National schools.If that is their prescription for National schools then they are in for a big surprise because it will fail even before they implement it.
In order for National schools to be accepted as schools of choice for all malaysians the whole structure of National schools have to be changed.National schools in its present form will simply not be acceptable by non malays.Briefly some of the structural changes that need to be addressed are as follows:
1.Leave religion at home or in the mosques.Religion of any form should not be part of any curriculum.If teachers need to say their morning prayers do it at home and not in schools.We respect your religious practice so respect ours too.
2.Composition of teachers should change to include more non malays and to allow promotion of them to be headmasters based on merit and not on race.
3. Avoid introducing islamic morals on students and that includes wearing of tudung.
4. School work should be based on meritocracy and not on racial preference.
5.The construction and methodology of school syllabus should be left to academics and not to politicians.
6.Appointment and training of teachers should be based on merit and not race based.
The above are some of the changes that have tobe made if National schools are to be the choice fo rall Malaysians.