{"id":1010,"date":"2006-12-16T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2010-12-04T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:13:20","slug":"1006-of-two-suggestions-to-improve-national-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"[1006] Of a suggestion to increase the appeal of national schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian government is committed towards the national school system. From time to time, the current government reminds us of that; today, the Prime Minister reiterates his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/nst\/Saturday\/National\/20061216085920\/Article\/local1_html\" target=\"_blank\">support for the system<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUALA LUMPUR: National schools will become the schools of choice again, according to the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Lamenting their decline yesterday, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said: &#8220;Everything is being done to make the schools attractive to all the races.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah said the government had realised that national schools played an important role in nation building and bringing the various races together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a suggestion, out of few, on how to make it a system of choice of many Malaysians.<\/p>\n<p>Bring religion, in most cases Islam as far as national schools are concerned, to where to belong \u2014 as equal among many other courses.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a students within the national school system, I loathe the very idea that religion was being forced upon me. I dislike that fact that because I&#8217;m a Muslim, I had to do things that are deemed as Islamic by my religious teachers. I&#8217;m sure some girls disagree to being forced to wear headscarf at school, just because they&#8217;re Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>For me personally, the reason I attend school is to learn arts, humanities and sciences, not to have my personal life and belief dictated upon by strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Further, I believe all the stress on Islam makes believers of other religions, atheists, agnostics and even Muslims that are uninterested in religious conservatives&#8217; wet dream alike feel alienated. Surely, that doesn&#8217;t increase the appeal of national schools to many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian government is committed towards the national school system. From time to time, the current government reminds us of that; today, the Prime Minister reiterates his support for the system: KUALA LUMPUR: National schools will become the schools of choice again, according to the Prime Minister. Lamenting their decline yesterday, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,11],"tags":[68,1270,58,252],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-society","tag-islam","tag-national-schools","tag-religion","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}