DAP is a multi racial party and champions the right to learn one's mother tongue as enshrined in the Constitution.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Seputeh MP Teresa Kok has called on Gerakan, in a stinging rebuke, not to divert attention from the real issue i.e. that Barisan Nasional (BN) Ministers have low or no confidence in the national education system and policy.
She was taking issue with Gerakan vice president Dominic Lau criticising DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang in a Chinese daily as being inconsistent by challenging BN ministers to send their children to national schools while he himself sent his own children to English schools.
Lau had also questioned why Kit Siang was championing Chinese primary schools and independent Chinese secondary schools, when he did not send his children to such schools.
“Lau does not seem to know that the English schools which Kit Siang‘s children attended were then part of the national education system,” said Kok in springing to Lim’s defence.
“His attacks on Kit Siang are therefore wrong and also prove his ignorance about the national education system.”
Kok asked Lau to answer two questions, namely whether Gerakan leaders and members sent their children to Chinese primary schools and independent Chinese secondary schools; and was it Gerakan policy that only those who have sent their children to such schools are qualified to champion them.
Kok pointed out that DAP was a multi racial party and that party leaders and members, regardless of race, supported and championed the right to learn one‘s mother tongue as enshrined in the Constitution.
“The party also has a firm stand that the government’s educational policies must be fair and just,” she said
KUALA LUMPUR: Seputeh MP Teresa Kok has called on Gerakan, in a stinging rebuke, not to divert attention from the real issue i.e. that Barisan Nasional (BN) Ministers have low or no confidence in the national education system and policy.
She was taking issue with Gerakan vice president Dominic Lau criticising DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang in a Chinese daily as being inconsistent by challenging BN ministers to send their children to national schools while he himself sent his own children to English schools.
Lau had also questioned why Kit Siang was championing Chinese primary schools and independent Chinese secondary schools, when he did not send his children to such schools.
“Lau does not seem to know that the English schools which Kit Siang‘s children attended were then part of the national education system,” said Kok in springing to Lim’s defence.
“His attacks on Kit Siang are therefore wrong and also prove his ignorance about the national education system.”
Kok asked Lau to answer two questions, namely whether Gerakan leaders and members sent their children to Chinese primary schools and independent Chinese secondary schools; and was it Gerakan policy that only those who have sent their children to such schools are qualified to champion them.
Kok pointed out that DAP was a multi racial party and that party leaders and members, regardless of race, supported and championed the right to learn one‘s mother tongue as enshrined in the Constitution.
“The party also has a firm stand that the government’s educational policies must be fair and just,” she said
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