Pemuda gesa aliran vernakular dikaji semula

PEMUDA Umno menggesa kerajaan melakukan penilaian menyeluruh terhadap ekosistem pendidikan vernakular yang kini merangkumi lebih 1,800 sekolah jenis kebangsaan, kata ketuanya, Akmal Saleh.

Akmal berkata penilaian itu perlu dilakukan dalam aspek keselarasan silibus, penerapan nilai-nilai kenegaraan dan penguasaan Bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan.

Katanya, kajian menyeluruh berhubung ruang dan peluang penambahbaikkan ekosistem pendidikan kebangsaan juga perlu dilakukan bagi memberi insentif dan tarikan kepada penyertaan murid berbilang bangsa.

“Pegerakan Pemuda Umno Malaysia dengan ini mencadangkan agar dihidupkan kembali suatu ruang dialog nasional bagi Malaysia meneroka wawasan baharu ke arah integrasi pendidikan negara dalam erti kata yang sebenar-benarnya.

“Menginsafi kerumitan, sensitiviti dan polemik yang melingkari isu ini, kerajaan tidak mempunyai pilihan melainkan untuk menerajui usaha ini bagi memastikan ia diurus dalam kerangka yang penuh cermat, di luar pengaruh sentimen, syak wasangka dan hasutan,” katanya dalam kenyataan.

Menurut Akmal, pihaknya melihat dengan penuh khuatir akan perkembangan mutakhir mengenai isu sekolah vernakular.

Katanya ia mencerminkan bahawa setelah hampir 70 tahun kemerdekaan dicapai, masih wujud jurang nilai dan pemisahan persefahaman di antara rakyat Malaysia yang berbilang bangsa.

 

Umno Youth urges review on vernacular schools

UMNO Youth has called for a comprehensive assessment of vernacular schools, an in-depth study into improvements to the national education system, and plans for an integrative education model based on common values and a sense of belonging.

The measures are in a three-part plan outlined by Umno Youth leader Akmal Salleh to strengthen racial harmony and national unity.

Akmal said Umno Youth would propose a single schooling system to the government to foster racial harmony.

He said it was Umno Youth’s view that racial tension stemmed from segregation at schools. “It is time for Malaysia to put an end to this segregation and divide,” he said. “There is no shortcut to achieve unity. It is a long, winding and challenging road, but it begins with a single step.”

He said there should be a comprehensive assessment of the syllabus of vernacular schools, including the level of mastery of Bahasa Malaysia. He said the study would involve more than 1,800 national-type schools.

An in-depth study of improvements to the national education system was also needed to woo schoolchildren from all communities to attend national schools.

He called for a medium- and long-term plan towards creating a more integrative education model based on common values and a sense of belonging, without sidelining the rights to conserve mother tongues.

Akmal said Malaysians had been segregated from a young age because of vernacular schools, and Umno Youth would hold a nationwide debate session on the re-establishment of single-stream schools.

Last week, Bukit Bendera MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid of DAP said that Umno Youth should understand why parents are reluctant to send their children to national schools before mooting a single schooling system. She said among the reasons were poor infrastructure, a lack of teachers, and inadequate resources.

 

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