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Sometimes, when I wake up every morning I wonder whether I am in “middle earth”. I don’t listen to RTM/TV3/NTV news nowadays, in fact I have stopped listening to them since 2008 as they treat us like a bunch of fools.

Yesterday I suddenly came across this piece of news that was the main news of the day. High Performance Schools???????

Now, what criteria did they use to select these schools? Were there an independent committee created to select these schools? Oh, sorry, it must be under Official Secret Act (OSA).

Do you find something fishy in the list provided? Well, I do.

First of all, I think boarding schools should never be included. As you know, boarding schools only take the top UPSR/PMR students who did not get a place in MARA colleges. Furthermore , it is open to only 1 race. Again, welcome to 1Malaysia malaysian style! 

I am sure you know where I am getting to. Out of 20 schools, 10 were boarding schools. If you look at their names, you know that these schools are reserved for one particular race. Please look at the remaining 10 schools? What do you see? I am sure you know what I am trying to say. Bandar Baru Uda in JB is a premier Malay élite housing area. Thus, understandably, 95-98% of the students are from 1 particular race.  What happen to Sekolah Sultan Ismail (the top secondary school) in Johor? disappeared from the radar of our education ministry? I never even heard Sek Tun Fatimah as an excellent school before.

Students who excel can jump classes? It looks like only these schools are going to have excellent students. What about excellent students in other schools? isn’t this discrimination? 

Welcome to 1Malaysia, 2 system!!!!! 

please continue to screw up our education system!!!!

PUTRAJAYA: An annual budget of nearly RM1mil besides allowing students to finish school a year earlier were among the “prizes” awarded to the country’s first ever 20 high performance schools. The principals will also be given the option to select 20% of their student intake.

The schools’ management would also have the flexibility to re-assign staff who under-performed, and pay overtime and performance incentives.

In announcing the 20 schools yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said this was to create innovation in the management of schools and improve students’ productivity.

“These schools will be given the flexibility in their curriculum, student intake and management of staff based on performance,” he said during a press conference at his office.

Citing an example, he said a Year One pupil of a high performance school, who was academically excellent, could be given the option of skipping a year after consultation with his parents.

On the flexibility of the curriculum, he said the schools could make changes after a thorough consultation with all involved, including the ministry and parents.

Muhyiddin said high performance schools would receive a lump sum grant at the start of each school year.

“They could get just below RM1mil to do what they think is needed,” he said, adding that the budget details were being worked out.

Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said of the 20 schools, 10 were fully residential, four secondary and six primary (see list).

The schools, he added, were selected based on their outstanding academic achievements, extra-curricular activities and niche areas