Dong Jiao Zong and Chinese-based NGOs maintain that school boards be allowed to decide on the teaching Jawi script.
Chinese educationist group Dong Jiao Zong and Chinese-based NGOs have renewed their demand for the school boards to be allowed to decide on Jawi script lessons in Chinese primary schools.
For this, Dong Jiao Zong president Tan Tai Kim said, the organisation would submit a memorandum to the Ministry of Education next week. "We expressed our strong dissatisfaction that school boards have yet to be listed as decision-makers ," Tan was quoted as saying byTan was reading out the consensus decision arrived at a joint meeting held by Dong Jiao Zong and Chinese NGOs.He said Dong Jiao Zong met the Education Ministry on the Jawi issue more than five times, from July to November.In August, the government drew flak for announcing the introduction of khat for Year 4 vernacular school pupils next year.
Dong Jiao Zong and Chinese NGOs asked the state branches of the Chinese School Management Board Association to demand that the schools call for a meeting to reject the four-page Jawi script lesson.
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