Mahdzir: Educators must toe the line in politics

PUTRAJAYA: Education Minister Mahdzir Khalid has reminded educators involved in politics against breaking the rules binding the civil service.

At a press conference after delivering the ministry’s New Year message here yesterday, Mahdzir said as civil servants, they were bound to certain rules, especially on matters which were opposed to government policies.

“Although there are some educators who support opposition political parties, they need to ‘fine-tune’ and put a ‘buffer zone’ between their career and political ideology so as not to highlight the character of haters and anti-government elements,” he said.

He was commenting on the tendency of some educators to go on the opposition stage to publicly disclose what they did not like concerning the ruling government.

Mahdzir said the ministry did not intend to disturb the educators to the point of removing them from service, but asked them to act professionally as civil servants. -FMT