The government has announced it would standardise school uniforms in 2027.
Students nationwide will wear the same design and colour, starting with Standard 1 and Form 1 students.
Leaders claim that, stemming from their extensive studies and consultations with relevant stakeholders, this move – to create just one type of uniform – will bring about national unity.
Besides, as claimed, it will ease the financial burden on parents with school-going children.
We sometimes wonder where our politicians find their inspiration.
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This one, this standardised, nationwide school uniform plan, is made to sound like Archimedes’s ‘eureka’ proclamation – a grand breakthrough!
Politicians need to be told that wearing common, standardised apparel will not create unity.
You cannot advance the agenda of national unity when some of our politicians resort to ethnically divisive toxins.
You cannot forge national unity when religious bigotry is the most utilised weapon among politicians.
Isn’t this pulling wool over our eyes?
How can there be genuine national unity when divisive policies are stitched, woven with threads of ethnic divisiveness and religious preferences?
When political parties are so divided and fighting to topple each other, what good can standardised school uniforms bring about for the nation’s future?
The answer is not in school uniforms. It is in the quality of teaching, in the content of subjects taught in schools, and in the quality of teachers’ mindsets.
In many schools across the world, including in our Asean neighbours, school uniforms are decided by each school. The myriad of colours and attire have not eroded national unity in these countries. On the contrary, pride in protecting and upholding the reputation of each school thrives.
The day we grow up and out of our ethnic and religious divisiveness and purge our political landscape of politicians who weaponise ethnicity and religion, that is the day we will successfully march towards genuine national unity.
AGENDA RAKYAT - Lima perkara utama
- Tegakkan maruah serta kualiti kehidupan rakyat
- Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
- Raikan kerencaman dan keterangkuman
- Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
- Lawan rasuah dan kronisme
Thank you for speaking out the truth of the matter, Mr. Lovrenciear. Our mindsets should be of a Malaysian Malaysia. Race and religion politics reveal the insecurities of our leaders who then push a prejudicial narrative of its citizens against one another, causing unnecessary fear in the hearts and minds of our rakyat. I love Malaysia and I want to see it grow and prosper. However, these kinds of unhealthy power plays will breed division, favoritism, cronyism and corruption, which will ultimately bring down the strength of a nation.