Deputy Prime Minister: No More Meals Near Toilet for Pupils
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin
Yassin yesterday promised stern action against a school if it was true that it
had allegedly forced its non-Muslim pupils to have their meals at a changing room next to the toilets during recess.
Muhyiddin, who is also education
minister, said in his Twitter account in Bahasa Malaysia that he had directed
the ministry to investigate the claim that became viral online.
Deputy Education Minister II P.
Kamalanathan's special officer, Yogendran Subramanium, who visited the
school yesterday, said the area depicted in the Facebook posting was an unused
changing room.
During the visit, which was also
attended by several officers from the ministry's director-general's office, the
headmaster Mohamad Nasir Mohd Noor explained that the school had used two
changing rooms since March for the students to have their meals as the canteen
was not big enough for all the pupils there. He said the school management
did not think the matter would become a national issue as students, regardless
of race, had used the rooms to eat before this.
The headmaster claimed that the school
canteen can't hold more than 300 students at a time. Children would sit on
the canteen steps, beside the big drains or just eat while standing and we were
worried about their safety and comfort.
I've spotted another picture on Facebook
this morning that even teachers are taking their meals during "Sahur"
at the same changing room as well. The truth of this picture are yet to be
confirmed and discussed.
Does it still useful? Would it be too late to tell the audience that the educators are actually doing the same thing with pupils? Sigh...
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