Chinese education group Dong Zong yesterday said that the national
education blueprint was a way to implement the "ultimate objective" of
the 1956 Razak Report, which is to push the country in the direction of
"monolingual education".They made the claim in a statement in response to Deputy Education Minister Mary Yap's recent allegation that Dong Zong members "do not understand" the education blueprint.
Mary had claimed that Dong Zong's fear of mother tongue schools being pushed away through the blueprint holds no water, because there is a specific chapter in the blueprint on mother tongue schools.
However Dong Zong begs to differ, and maintains that they have not misunderstood the blueprint.
"When announcing the formulation and implementation of the education development blueprint, Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has on successive occasions expressed that he would pay close attention to whether the policies and objectives of the Razak Report 1956 could be fully implemented," the group said.
Dong Zong said that despite a specific mention in the blueprint, there is an increase in "unfavourable policies" that "marginalise" Chinese and Tamil primary schools.
"They have, in greater space and length, emphasised the role of the national language and national schools as a tool for national unity, and the national language as the main medium of instruction for all educational institutions," it said.
It pointed out, among others, that the increased teaching hours of Bahasa Malaysia even in vernacular schools was being done with the purpose of establishing a "mono-racial country".
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