KOTA KINABALU: The Consumers Affair and Protection Society of Sabah (CAPS) fully supports the recent call made by MCA Sabah Liaison chief Datuk Edward Khoo on the need for the Federal Government to take cue from the Sabah State Government’s decision to allocate a fix annual grant to conforming Chinese and mission schools in Sabah.
Its deputy treasurer, Donny Yapp, said each of the eight conforming Chinese secondary schools in Sabah is getting RM130,000 annually, and this is a great help to these schools in providing better education to our multi-ethnic society.
“If the Sabah state government can do it, there is no good reason why the Federal Government cannot do the same. We thank Edward Khoo as well as the former education deputy minister, Datuk Wee Ka Siong who had also voiced the similar call on helping Chinese schools in the country.
“Education is very important for Malaysia to move on, and it is time the Federal leaders be fully inclusive in its treatment of schools in the country, at least do not leave these independent schools totally on their own looking for fund.
“Sometimes even very young students of these Chinese schools were compelled to go around raising funds for simple project in their schools like building an extension of a class. While this is a noble task, it is a pity these students were asked to do it when the Federal government could have just come in and help these schools,” he said.
Yapp added these students face a certain risk when going out raising funds but they have no choice but to do it to help their schools, which should be the Federal government task.