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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

BN uses meeting with teachers to campaign



Thousands of Chinese primary school teachers and principals were subjected to an opposition-bashing ‘political ceramah’ by caretaker Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in Johor Bahru today.

NONEAlso present at the event - dubbed a ‘special meeting’ with Muhyiddin - was caretaker Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai, despite this being touted as an education ministry event.

BN leaders had previously claimed that the meeting had been arranged long before the dissolution of Parliament on April 3.

Despite this, the two caretaker ministers fully capitalised on the event to woo educators as voters.

The Education Ministry had instructed more than 6,000 headmasters and teachers from all over the country had been instructed to attend the meeting at SRJK(C) Foon Yew (1).

The speeches were followed by a ceremony to give out mock cheques for a total of RM14.3 million, which was part of the RM100 million education allocation that had been announced by caretaker premier Najib Abdul Razak to Chinese schools in Johor.
Liow delivered part of his speech in Mandarin, lambasting PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim for victimising Chinese schools in 1987 while the education minister.

NONEHe said that, apart from refusing the community's demand to abolish Section 21(2) of the Education Act that allows the education minister to close Chinese schools, Anwar had directed all state education departments to allocate the land reserved only to national schools.

Anwar had also deployed Chinese teachers who do not understand Mandarin to senior management positions in Chinese schools, claimed Liow.

The protest movement, Liow said, led to the notorious Operasi Lalang under which 108 politicians and activists were detained under the Internal Security Act 1960.

In contrast, Najib abolished the controversial section in 1996 and Chinese education was recognised in the new Education Act when he was the education minister, Liow stressed.

"What Anwar failed to do, Najib completed in 1996, which was a turning point for Chinese education in Malaysia," he said.

He therefore called on all teachers to give Najib their full support, so that he can implement progressive and open policies.

Liow also praised Muhyiddin and his deputy Wee Ka Siong, who was at the event, for their strong support to vernacular education streams.

Muhyiddin has solved "almost all their problems" including shortage of teachers and funds, as well as relocation of schools, Liow said.

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