Front page headline, Daily Express, 24th January 2008: who is the principal of SMK Tansau?
January 25th, 2008The front page of Daily Express on the 24th of January 2008 says: “Sabah school told to stop it.” Apparently Sabah Education Director, Puan Normah Gagoh, said that SMK Tansau of Penampang is practising gender segregation of students and they should stop such practice immediately.
She was quoted to have said:
The National Education Policy does not have a policy of dividing boys and girls according to gender. The Ministry advocates integration of students in line with the first strategic thrust of the National Education Blueprint (2006-2010), which focuses on building a Malaysian nation. Being a co-educational school, the students from diverse backgrounds must interact towards maintaining multi-racial and multi-cultural unity. Today, we are talking about developing human capital with first-class mentality, so schools cannot afford to segregate the students based on gender.
What makes this more interesting than usual is that the Principal of SMK Tansau is reported to be the wife of a Sabah UMNO minister.
Doing a little check reveals that the principal in question is likely to be Datin Hajah Patimah Ali, the wife of Assistant State Finance Minister and State UMNO Information Chief, Datuk Sapawi Haji Ahmad.
Puan Normah said she had “received many complaints about the unhealthy situation in the school from concerned parents and members of the public.”
Specifically, four boys-only Form 5 classes and another four for girls only.
The paper further reported that:
- school called a PIBG emergency meeting this Saturday to decide on the issue.
- all parents had been invited to attend to express their views
- invitation letters given to their children on Wednesday.
- several parents said it may be an attempt “to use the PIBG to embarrass the Education Minister, in case they are asked to back the segregation.” They also used the phrase “challenging the Government policy.”
Source
Daily Express, 24th January 2007
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ok bah itu policy… di semenanjung ada boys only and girls only fully residential school - like kolej tunku kurshiah, seremban - all girls only and sekolah dato abdul razak, seremban - all boys only - noth achieve 100% pass results for pmr, spm and stpm for a record 50 consecutive years……..!!!!!!!!!!
Tidak salah jika ia dilaksanakan tetapi tidak semua sekolah boleh melaksanakan polisi tersebut. Ikut persekitaraan dan penerimaan masyarakat setempat. Isu ini harus ditangani dengan hati-hati. Segala kepincangan boleh memudaratkan sistem pendidikan negara…
Ini sekolah co-ed (mixed), oleh itu mesti mixed. Kalau mau pigi single-gender school di Sabah pun ada bah - cth St Francis Convent (all girl), La Salle (all boys). Kalau tidak cukup sekolah, bikin lagi lah sekolah baru.
Single gender schools get the top achievement because usually they get their students from the best students at primary level, or lower secondary level already (except those with connections obviously). So the comparison isnt fair. The usual schools are all-comers : i.e. anybody can apply.
Kenapa takut sangat gender segregation. Ada kita bincang situasi sebenar baik burok. Cikgu yang mengajar lebih arif situasi sebenar di sekolah dari Ibupada dirumah.
Contoh salah satu kajian dari barat
Gender segregation serves schools well
By: Eric brown
http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2004/09/10/Opinion/Gender.Segregation.Serves.Schools.Well-715092.shtml