For the future...Single Stream School

Dear guys,

My second write-up relating to the single stream school.

Today's paper highlighted of former PM, Tun Dr Mahathir view point of the need to have a single stream school. Of course this idea was first proposed by Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim.

Think of it why the need to have various type of schools. If we really want to start thinking of being Malaysian, then let us do a way with vernacular type schools in this country. Taking away vernacular schools doesn't mean one can't still speak his or her mother tongue.

Imagine with a single stream school, our children and grand children will not only learn and speak Bahasa Malaysia and English, but also an opportunity for them to learn other languanges such as Mandarin, Tamil, Kadazan, etc via special language classes.

Just look at countries like Thailand, they do have multi-ethnic groups and but go to a common school. Even public schools in the US, despite that English is not the OFFICIAL language, but the school is all taught in English and everybody speaks English. Nowadays not all American have to be white, there is Blacks, Filipino, Mexican, Japanese, Korean, etc...

Single stream school doesn't necessarily mean that you are BN or PR or whatever, it is about unifying people with a common identity, we are MALAYSIAN. It is best to start now, slow, gradually, eventually rather than never.

Cheerios!