THE head of PAS’ education bureau today paid tribute to the success of Chinese and Tamil schools, but defended a call by her party mate for vernacular schools to be shut down on the grounds that they did not promote national unity.
Dewan Muslimat chief Halimah Ali defended the call made by her colleague Salamiah Md Noor yesterday, saying that the setting up of the vernacular school system was not in line with the federal constitution.
However, she admitted that the system has been a success in raising the education standards of the minority community, adding that it should be emulated by PAS’ own education network, which includes PASTI kindergartens and SRITI Islamic primary schools.
“Even though they are a minority, they are able to develop the system to the point that even Muslims choose these schools. We should attempt to achieve the same level of success of theirs,” she said in her winding up speech at the party’s 65th muktamar (annual congress) today.
She said the women’s wing hoped that the Pakatan Harapan government would take their proposal into consideration, adding that vernacular schools posed a hurdle to promoting national unity.
Yesterday, Salamiah had also urged for Arabic instead of Mandarin to be promoted as the country’s second most spoken language. – June 23, 2019.
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