Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 06:58 PM MYTAPRIL 20 — We, the undersigned and a collective of friends whose friendship began in Convent Bukit Nanas Primary and Secondary schools strongly object to the intended non-renewal of its land lease which is due to expire on Sept 6 this year.
We owe our career and personal successes to the school itself. Convent Bukit Nanas, like all the mission schools in Malaysia, promoted discipline, tenacity and resilience, and even more importantly, multiculturalism. The school itself is a symbol of Malaysia and her various ethnic races and faiths. We learned and abided by the rules of acceptance of different religious and cultural traditions, and our friendships extend beyond the colour of our skin and whether we were veiled or not.
Convent Bukit Nanas is an academically rigorous school that also opened all our eyes to income gaps and inequity in our country, for which all of us are working hard to eradicate. The sharing among our classmates of good times and bad taught us to be more empathetic and inclusive. How many schools in Malaysia can boast of this as well as multiculturalism?: “I started my time in CBN as a little girl of 7 and left as a young woman of almost 20.
...the government never thought of this(?) ...colonialism did not die after independence, it just changed hands.
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