QUOTE(beetch @ Dec 10 2025, 03:23 PM)
Why caina die die want UEC?
This question will require one to travel back in time where most /k/tards weren't even born yet. I'll try to be concise but I doubt that people will be bothered anyway.
Generally, Chinese schools were founded way back in the early 19th century by the Chinese immigrants. The buildings were funded by the community because they know education was the shitz & they were like "if the Brits can establish schools like Penang Free School then why can't we?" So they imported teachers from mainland China who handled the syllabus creation & subsequently the standard of exam.
Basically, all the Chinese schools in the early 20th century were private schools & they were happy & dandy to be left alone.
Anyway, due to the development in the mainland where Sun Yat-sen aimed to topple the Qing dynasty & subsequently travelled all over the world trying to obtain overseas Chinese's moral & financial support, the Chinese schools here became radicalised.
British tak suka & want to gain control of these schools by enacting Education Ordinance. After kena bully by the British, came the Japs. After Japs surrendered, in came the PKMs.
So you can see why the Chinese were spooked when the government tried to integrate the Chinese schools & came up with the Fenn-Wu report. The government of that time then responded with the Barnes report that basically called for the abolishment of the Chinese schools. The Razak report became the middle ground that resulted in our education system today where primary schools consists of SRK & SJK but secondary levels are unified with option for vernacular language subject.
To the Chinese (well, not all since many has since became bananas now), this was considered a hijacking of our Chinese schools & education which has been around before SRKs even exist. Anyway, slowly but surely, one by one Chinese secondary schools converted themselves into national type high school, which to some Chinese, was considered as an act of betrayal. There were quite some big hoo-ha where some students, teachers & schools staffs rioted in protest, police got involved, tear gas was released, batons were bashed & that was how we got CIS & UEC today.
EDIT: I studied in SRK / SMK / local uni.
This post has been edited by talexeh: Yesterday, 07:10 PM