KOTA KINABALU - The recent call by MCA Sabah leader for the Federal Government to allocate a fix grant for Chinese and mission schools in the state needs to be seriously considered by Prime Minister, Najib Razak.
Supporting the call by Sabah MCA leader, Edward Khoo, the Consumer Affairs and Protection Society of Sabah (CAPS), said if the Sabah state government can do it, there is no good reason why the Federal Government cannot do the same.
“CAPS fully supports the recent call made by Edward on the need for Federal Government to take the cue from Sabah State Government’s decision to allocate a fix annual grant to conforming Chinese and Mission schools in Sabah.
“Currently each of the eight conforming Chinese secondary schools in Sabah are getting RM130,000 annually, and this is a great help to these schools in providing better education to our multi-ethnic society,” said CAPS’ spokesman, Donny Yapp, who is also its deputy treasurer-general.
Yap said CAPS thanked Edward as well as the former education deputy minister, Wee Ka Siong, who had also voiced similar calls on the Federal authorities to come up with a more meaningful allocation to Chinese schools in the country.
“Education is very important for Malaysia to move on, and it is time the Federal leaders be fully inclusive in its treatment of schools in the country, at least do not leave these independent schools totally on their own looking for fund,” added Yapp.
He pointed out that sometimes even very young students of these Chinese schools were compelled to go around raising funds for simple project in their schools like building an extension of a class.
“While this is a noble task, it is a pity these students were asked to do it when the Federal could have just come in and help these schools.
“These students face certain risk when they go out raising funds out there but they have no choice but to do it to help their schools, which should be the Federal government duty to help,” Yapp said.
By Luke Rintod
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