Religious segregation at Sabah school ends
SM All Saints, one of Sabah's oldest schools, made the headlines after its principal ordered Form One classes to be segregated between Muslim and non-Muslim students. The state education minister says the matter has been resolved. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Irwan Majid, March 18, 2019.
THE controversy over religious segregation at a Sabah mission school has ended, thanks to the intervention of the state Education Department. “Sabahans are a model of racial and religious harmony. Many families in the state comprise mixed marriages, and there is barely any religious conflict among us,” state Education and Innovation Minister Dr Yusof Yakob told a press conference at SM All Saints in Kota Kinabalu today.
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