Most developed country:

Minority - special privileges. Majority - suck it up for sake of minority.

Oh wait.... China is not most developed country yet.....

Malaysia:

Majority - special privileges. Minority - suck it up for sake of majority.

Oh wait.... China > Malaysia....

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.

You really should quit it with the Indon example.

First of all, Indonesia has no affirmative action policies. At least not on paper anyway. Basically, every Indonesian is an equal. Every religion in Indonesia is accorded equal status. There are no differences in rights and privileges (again, at least on paper anyway).

Secondly, even with all that assimilation, it did not stop the Indonesian Chinese from getting killed and raped en-mass in 1998. And you know what.... if another major riot broke out in the next 5 to 10 years, the same shit gonna happen all over again to the Indonesian Chinese still left in Indonesia.

Thirdly, the condition of Indonesia is equal to kandang kerbau penuh tahi punya tahap. It is a fvcking shithole of a country. Indonesia exports cheap foreign labour and maids. All that unity and assimilation and they still can't even pull their bloody country up and beyond. Malaysia, for all its "lack of unity" and "divisiveness", is still hanging on to second best in Asean, for now.

Honestly, quit it with the Indonesian comparisons. Even the regular Malaysian Malay does not want to become an Indonesian if offered a choice.

That is why I say we should just binasakan those single race schools like asrama penuh, MRSM, and UiTM.

Single race school, use all taxpayer's money, tapi tak menyokong perpaduan dan mengeratkan hubungan antara kaum pulak, sekolah-sekolah tu?

Oh, and wipe out the matriculation and quota system as well for public unis. Sistem macam tu mana mendorong hubungan dan semangat perpaduan antara kaum ni?

Oh wait, you don't us to touch your special rights? Fvck off and touch our special rights then as well

I don't really mind the MARA institutions being around. Their original purpose - to offer education opportunities to the poor - that is a noble cause.

What annoys the heck out of me is that they are single race based.

What double annoys me is that Malays then complain that vernacular schools discriminate based on race and do not help with building unity among Malaysians.

Like seriously???? People can say that kind of shit with a straight face?

And then some folks wonder why there are so many of us complaining about the sub-par standard of education in Malaysia (when compared to the world class ones lar, of course... not compared to most ASEAN countries...).

In real life, most nons are quite benevolent to weaker people. If you are the type that need tongkat to get through life, of course we will view you with pity, sympathy and sorrow

True. Very true.

More importantly, he smashed up all the bumiputera rights stuff in Singapore. Singapore Malays get treated the same as the rest of them, that's why they are far more successful, on the whole, than Malaysian Malays today

If every Malaysian practised his or her religion properly, and if every Malaysian atheist observed just basic etiquette and common sense, Malaysia doesn't even have to be a developed country, but it will just be a really lovely place to live in.

But oh well *shrug*

Hapuskan lar sekolah kebangsaan. Melahirkan rempit-rempit, samseng-samseng, pacat dan lintah masyarakat yang memerlukan tongkat.

You should send your children to an asrama penuh, an MRSM, one of the SBPs or UiTM and tell us the composition of the races in there, LOL!

You are not going to be able to get any data from the English or Malay sources in the country. There is an unofficial policy of not giving publicity to Chinese schools, or their academic achievements. If you want to know deeper, you have to read the Chinese press. With my half-past-six Chinese, I cannot do any research from that angle; maybe someone fluent in Chinese can check out some figures or two.

One example

Example Two

Example Three

Example Four

Anyway, as someone who is a relative to two Chung Hwa teachers, I can confidently state that Chung Hwa and Kuan Cheng produce many straight A students in UEC and SPM examinations. Of course, they do not receive any publicity from the national press; precedence is given to emphasizing the achievements of the MRSM, asrama penuh and SBP students. But that's OK, because as can be seen in example four above, vernacular school graduates are able to move on to other countries to continue their education, find meaningful employment and help make those countries great / great again

Because there are no racial quotas inside vernacular schools, unlike our SBPs, MRSMs, asrama penuhs and UiTM, vernacular schools are the standard bearer for unity of the races behind the provision of quality education. The only thing vernacular schools need to do now is ensure that their graduates are fluent in three languages, and that they (the schools) update their teaching methods for the 21st century.

Kuatkanlah sistem sekolah vernakular!!!

Good.

If that is the kind of mentality and outlook - i.e. Malays can compete with no fear, and that all schools should be open to all on merit (your SBPs, MRSMs, asrama penuhs, UiTM), that the quota system should be abolished, and that every Malaysian child should sit only one common examination (i.e. no matriculation and STPM division bullshit as well), THEN I may be able to get behind the abolishment of vernacular schools. This is only the start however. There are many other details to iron out.

As I said previously, there is an unofficial policy to ignore or downplay the achievement of vernacular schools, whether government or private, by the national media and the government bodies.

Cannot be when parents tell me year in year out that the schools they send their children to produce straight A students in UEC / SPM by the bucketloads, but nothing comes out in the press. End up the Malays seem to think only their elite schools are producing top scholars in the country.

I will say this though... Singapore loves the shit we are doing to our vernacular schools. They (the Singaporeans) get to reap the cream of the crop from our yearly cohort. All that talent goes to Singapore to help make Singapore great again, instead of helping Malaysia.

But well... terpulanglah.

Yeah, including UEC.

If can abolish matriculation and quota system, and make STPM the common exam for one and all, and take away bullshit stuff like backdoors, then I would support abolishment of UEC too.

But as long as any of these quota or matriculation nonsense exist, then UEC needs to go on, because it is with UEC that Chinese vernacular school students can move to other countries to study and migrate, if needed.

UEC allows vernacular school students to graduate one year faster than STPM students and opens more doors to Chinese language institutions overseas than STPM.

If I had a child in Malaysia who had to choose between UEC or STPM, and if money was not an issue, then no brainer for me.... would pick UEC 10 times out of 10.

Another vernacular school boy:

Yi Hern, from a vernacular school