A LETTER TO EDUCATION MINISTRY: PRIMARY PUPILS ARE IN DANGER DUE TO THE CARELESSNESS OF KPM, JPN, PPD IN EVALUATING A SCHOOL.

Malaysian education claims that reformation is a need to improve the coming generations, yet the problem in the education system never resolved. Clearly, today the primary school children are suffering because of the examination oriented system. School based assessment is just a puppet show that already died few years ago yet the name remained. UPSR pupils today have been forced to take morning classes, afternoon class and interestingly night classes as well. The era that shows the school an interesting place already comes to the end. Many activities such as science fair, sports (MSSD), language competitions and etc. have been held but the winners will be forgotten and not appreciated. At the end of the day, the one scored 6As is the winner and the field champion is nothing. The outdoor activities also will make the co-curricular active pupils to neglect the study and at last can’t perform well in their examination. The problem is not in the academic or co-curriculum activities but on how the school has been assessed by the government.

                SJK(T) Tanah Rata is a no. 1 school in Pahang because of the best academic achievement in UPSR last year. How about other schools that have been performing well in the co-curriculum activities? The assessment are wrong and the ranking of the pupils based on the academic are ridiculous. A school should be assessed on the three criteria: academic, management and co-curriculum activities. Then only, the school teachers will be encouraged by the school head to conduct programs which will create a holistic individual. If these three types of assessments are not conducted, the school will just create robots and stressful children. At the end of the day, no one will look for UPSR result to offer jobs and all the efforts by the stressful pupils will be nothing. Let’s help the primary school children, the Ministry of Education should evaluate schools based on THE three criteria so that we will create talented pupils. Please re-consider this. Spread this letter to make Malaysian aware!