PBDS Baru joins other voices of dissent over SMK Sg Paoh principal issue
MIRI:
Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) Baru has become the latest to join
those voicing dissatisfaction against the decision by the Education
Ministry to appoint an ‘ustaz’ (Muslim religious teacher) as principal
of predominantly-Dayak SMK Sungai Paoh.
PBDS Baru supreme council member Bobby William saw such a move as unfair to the local teaching fraternity in that they would be more deserving of the post.
He was also upset and saddened by the statement of Welfare, Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah – who is in charge of education in Sarawak – who advised the Dayaks against being ‘too sensistive’ over the issue.
“It seems that the minister (Fatimah) has failed to understand the issue and sentiments voiced out by the Dayaks, whose main concern has nothing to do with racism at all.
“The community, as a whole, doesn’t care much about who is the ‘pengetua’ (school principal) — as long as they’re ‘Orang Sarawak’ (local Sarawakians),” he said in a press statement yesterday.
He said the SMK Sungai Paoh incident highlighted the marginalisation of not only local teachers, but also local civil servants.
“With so many civil servants ‘being exported’ to Sarawak from Peninsular Malaysia over the years, the locals cannot avoid feeling that they’re being marginalised — it’s like they’re not being given the opportunity for promotions,” he said.
On the justification that the new principal, Ruslin Che Mood, having undergone the necessary process that qualified him for the post, Bobby argued that many local teachers had also gone through the same procedure.
“Many have undergone the National Professional Qualification for Educational Leadership (NPQEL), which prepares them to become school principals.
“Why aren’t these experienced Sarawakian teachers get the post?”
PBDS Baru supreme council member Bobby William saw such a move as unfair to the local teaching fraternity in that they would be more deserving of the post.
He was also upset and saddened by the statement of Welfare, Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah – who is in charge of education in Sarawak – who advised the Dayaks against being ‘too sensistive’ over the issue.
“It seems that the minister (Fatimah) has failed to understand the issue and sentiments voiced out by the Dayaks, whose main concern has nothing to do with racism at all.
“The community, as a whole, doesn’t care much about who is the ‘pengetua’ (school principal) — as long as they’re ‘Orang Sarawak’ (local Sarawakians),” he said in a press statement yesterday.
He said the SMK Sungai Paoh incident highlighted the marginalisation of not only local teachers, but also local civil servants.
“With so many civil servants ‘being exported’ to Sarawak from Peninsular Malaysia over the years, the locals cannot avoid feeling that they’re being marginalised — it’s like they’re not being given the opportunity for promotions,” he said.
On the justification that the new principal, Ruslin Che Mood, having undergone the necessary process that qualified him for the post, Bobby argued that many local teachers had also gone through the same procedure.
“Many have undergone the National Professional Qualification for Educational Leadership (NPQEL), which prepares them to become school principals.
“Why aren’t these experienced Sarawakian teachers get the post?”
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2015/11/11/pbds-baru-joins-other-voices-of-dissent-over-smk-sg-paoh-principal-issue/#ixzz3rEV0o3A6
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