July 31, 2019 7:45 AM
PETALING JAYA: Vocal Chinese educationist groups are resisting a new addition to the Bahasa Melayu subject next year aimed at exposing students in vernacular schools nationwide to khat, a form of Malay-Arabic calligraphy writing. The National Union of Teaching Profession has welcomed the plan, with teachers already undergoing training for teaching khat.
They claim that the khat, as part of the Bahasa Melayu syllabus, is “not suitable”, saying the art of calligraphy writing has nothing to do with learning the national language which follows a romanised script.
i am with dong zong. a big NO to arabic calligraphy to chinese schools
Why not introduce Coding classes instead? Our neighbour down south had started introducing Coding as an option to all upper primary students since 2014. And starting next year, it will be compulsory to all upper primary students...
Our education minister had a 'ting' moment. Probably had it while sitting in the toilet digging his nose scrolling twitter
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