'Miscommunication' Or Cover-Up?

Non-Muslim students of a school near Seremban were not told to wear traditional Malay costumes for a school function next month.

State MIC chairman Datuk T. Rajagopalu said a news report which quoted a parent as saying that the principal of SMK Datuk Sedia Raja, had instructed the students to do so was misleading.

“I checked with the Education Department this morning and was told that no such order was issued. Also, no directive was given to the students to do so,” he said yesterday.

Rajagopalu, who is also state executive councillor for unity, consumer affairs, plantations and commodities, said school heads had no power to tell students what to wear.

The news report said the school had made it compulsory for non-Muslim students participating in the school’s certificate presentation ceremony on Nov 5 to wear baju kurung, baju Melayu and songkok.

It said the 14 Indian students were told to do so for the sake of uniformity at the ceremony. A parent was quoted as saying that this was unbecoming as the students had their own customs, beliefs and traditional costumes.

“The MIC would object to such an insensitive and unilateral decision. In the Barisan Nasional, component party leaders are told to instil the importance of their culture and traditions among their members,” he said.

Rajagopalu said miscommunication must have caused the 'confusion'. (The Star)

***** If going by the past history of rabidly racist school heads who unabashedly impose their prejudiced views, skewed religious convictions and cultural mores on others, chances are that the directive was issued and quickly denied.

The demi bangsa, agama dan negara nutcases are very much alive and kicking in our schools and are indirectly encouraged by the BN politicians. Self-serving MIC leaders like this fellow Rajagopalu who would prefer to pretend that the fiasco never took place only serves to embolden the unthinking nitwits in education departments to try again in the future. After all it's pahala for these morons. At least that's what they think.

Ironically, with so much shit in our backyard and so many shitheads in our education system, the Hon. Menteri Pendidikan wants desperately to become a Unesco hotshot!
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