It is what it is in Malaysia. For the successful, there will always be haters and people who want to throw up obstacles against you. Take it as part of the road to success.
What vernacular schools need to do right now is to continue to produce top caliber graduates, and more importantly, graduates who are fluent, both oral and written, in 3 languages. Cannot emphasize this enough... THREE languages.
Vernacular school graduates should be able to compete against their Kebangsaan brethren when it comes to fluency of Malay. Vernacular school graduates should not lose face or maruah when it comes to ability to bersembang dalam Bahasa.
If the general / regular Kebangsaan school wants to embarrass themselves with the standard of their education, let them. Vernacular schools should not; they should be able to hold their heads up high and flip a middle finger to the haters who claim that vernacular school graduates cannot speak Malay.
Also, vernacular schools need to update their teaching and curriculum methods to the 21st century. The standards are there, the knowledge is abundant, but there should be more to the education and teaching methods than rote memorization.
Vernacular schools need to constantly update themselves and eventually reach a level of competition equal to the best Indian, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China schools. That is the best thing they can do for their students, their supporters and their believers.
Regardless of what the haters or the Malay supremacists think.
From the beginning every kind of schools SRK & SRJK contributed much to the development of this country and there was harmony among all races.
Then some prick decided to reinvent the wheel, that was already working well, for reasons only known to these pricks. Maybe these pricks are only interested in seeing the complete destruction of this beloved country of ours come what may.