Everyone should read this.
- From: pluto <pluto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:18:51 +0800
Everyone should read this.
http://stupidmalaysia.blogspot.com/2008/04/everyone-should-read-this.html
|||Today 04:49 AM|stupidmalaysia
Originally on Malaysiakini
http://malaysiakini.com/letters/81505
This is not an exception. I myself have seen many, many similar situations and
predicament, I was personally in the same boat. My naive, innocent yet blind
loyalty to the country shattered within a single hour as every single, yes,
every single one of my Malay friends leave on Government scholarships.
To add to it, my late father a Civil Servant himself, still had hopes that his
son will one day land some government assistance for my studies. It was not
meant to be, if you were a non-Malay - it was never meant to be, no matter how
good or hard you work.
The odd thing about this story is that, there are still parents, non-Malay
parents who continue to instill these noble values or loyalty, love and that
virtues of hard work will be rewarded to their children. Non-Malay parents
should wake up from this slumber, the political reality is that - the nation
itself and the very construct that this nation was based upon has no place for
virtuous people. It's a nation of cohorts, rent seekers and where the corrupt
feasted on the poor, a nation where UMNO will run amuck with your tax money,
further dividing the nation into various races brandishing to protect your
rights, when they continue to enrich themselves.
It is a sad story - but sadly it's a story that's as old as the rain forest
around this part of the world and it's a story that has been repeated too many
times in many a family dinner table. Read on....
I am a teacher by profession. I am teaching in a government school. Being a
teacher, I am expected to inculcate moral values in my teachings. I have
memorised all the sixteen values ?Nilai-nilai Murni? as a result of twenty-five
years of teaching ? values that transcend curriculum. Day in day out, all the
students are exposed to all the values which are expected to cultivate good
thinking and moral values among our young citizens. Examples of some of the
moral values are being kind-hearted, respecting each other, fairness, honesty,
and moderation.
In the recent SPM examination, many of my students did very well, some scoring
straight As. We, teachers of all races, felt so very proud seeing the
achievements of our students. We had ?Hari Anugerah Cemerlang? in my school.
Parents, regardless of race or religion were there to lend support for the
programme and at the same time to motivate the children. One such student is my
own daughter, who scored 12 As, best student of the school. She used to wake as
early as 4 o?clock in the morning to start preparing for her SPM.
When I asked her why she has to take up 12 subjects and ?torture ? herself, she
told me, ?I am not a bumiputera like many of my friends.? So the need to take up
two extra subjects (not offered in her school) in order to be on par with her
Malay friends.
She applied for the Progran Matrikulasi well before SPM itself. Yesterday was
the day she was eagerly waiting since obtaining her SPM results because all the
applicants will get their reply from the matriculation office. While I was in
school, my handphone rang. It was a call from my daughter. When I answered the
call she was already sobbing, and I am so silly to think that it was tears of
joy.
The sobs turn to cries after she heard my voice - she was devastated, depressed
and very disappointed because she failed to get entry into this
government-sponsored programme. She is the eldest in my family. I have another
three school going children. May be I am to be blamed because it was me who
asked her to study hard, get good results because being an ordinary teacher I
can not afford to send her to private colleges.
When I came back after school yesterday afternoon, again I saw tears in her
eyes. She asked several questions. ?Is it wrong to get 12 As in SPM? My Malay
friends who got 2As and 3 As got to do the matriculation programme, I am denied.
What?s wrong? You are also a teacher just like uncle, (my Malay college in
school) his son was offered a place although he scored only 5As. Why?? I don?t
have answers.
Being a teacher (I teach History and Moral Education), I teach my students to be
loyal to the country, to respect the leaders, to obey the laws of the nation, to
promote goodwill and so on. I encourage them to participate in ?Rimup? (a race
integration programme among students of various races).
I do not know what to say to my daughter. I feel guilty because what I teach in
school is actually rubbish, perhaps I need to tell them the reality being a
non-Malay citizen of our beloved nation. For that I need to resign. Please Mr.
Prime Minister, may be you have something to tell us.
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