When Hishamuddin Lost His Keris
6 01 2008… or rather lost the plot.
Well Hisham, now I wonder how on earth such a ‘benak’ fella like you deserve to be Minister, apalagi Minister of Education!
My readers should be able to remember when Kickdefella highlights the interview with Bro Saifuddin Nasution regarding the Budget 2008. Then it was followed by the Kickdefella Live! With Bro YB Sallahuddin. In both interview we discussed about the government decision to chop-off the schooling fee for primary and secondary schools.
In both the interview we had warned that parents still have to dump a lot of money in January because they still lots of extra payment need to be made.
Let me share a bit of my experience with Al and Rifqi. Prior to our move to Kota Bharu, both studied at Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Sri Hartamas. Al studied there until year 4 and Rifqi studied there until year 2.
Every year without fail I have to pay almost RM200 each for all sort of fees. Those that I still remember are RM50 for PTA’s donation, RM100 for computer’s fee, RM10 for school magazine, some religious fee, sports day, co curriculum, Federal Territory Education Department’s exercise books etc etc.
Every year without fail the Headmistress will told the parents, that the logic behind such fee is because it is a one off and we do not need to pay anymore after that. But off cause, she is the biggest liar. Why I call this headmistress by the name of Asilawati Kitajriah Baharom a liar, because beginning February the school will start to send letters to parents requesting all sort of compulsory donation such as for canteen day, open day etc etc and on teacher’s day, we have to fork out money so all the teachers can celebrate the teachers day in one of the hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur.
I have supported the national education systems for four years and I never complaint although I never given them my Tax Return statement and Salary slip even though they threaten me with all sort of nonsense. I trusted I am not alone on this because never any action taken towards me or my kidos. What I know, as a punishment, the teacher will put that my salary at the maximum point which is RM9,999.00. Who cares.
Well, I believe lots of parents shared my disagreement towards their children’s school, and just like me, we kept it silence.
However, when the government announce that parents will not be burden of paying the school fees anymore, they also spinned it in such a way that the whole education system shall be free for all.
Free education for all and one joker even went on national TV claiming that Malaysia is the first country to provide free education for its citizen. Cow dung!.
So, sadly, the parents fall into the trap and believed that it is a true free education, only to be told that they still have to fork out more than RM100.00 as for various types of extra fee. The parents retaliated. Where is the free education that you promise us?
I am sure, the joker who went on national TV saying Malaysia is the first country to provide free education is now hiding under the pile of cow dung.
And our Hishamuddin now found himself trapped by the government own spinning activity and lost his keris.
Today Hishamuddin has merajuk and frustrated that parents do not willing to spend on their children’s education. Looks like they are trying a new spin.
Wonder where is The Government Official Spoke Person (or rather Monkey) Khairy Jamaluddin because, we must hear from him first before the government can make their mind.
What about the text book? From my experience, the text book will cost less than RM100.00 but then the school demanded every student to buy all sort off activity books, work books, reference books etc etc which will cost more than the text book.
With the activity and the work books playing an important role in the system, what do the teachers do?
What Hisham has to understand, for years we are such an obliging parents. We never complained. We, without failed forked out our hard earned money to pay for all those fees. And some of us who are millionaires do not send their kids to national school. They sent their kids to International or private schools. Our Deputy Prime Minister himself, sent his kids to Garden International School.
So, when you told us that, the government is providing free education for us, we truly celebrated it and bought the more expensive pair of shoe, a better school bag and a much nicer school uniform for our kids. Whe want our kids to be at their best and now we can afford it because our education is free.
Only for us to realise that, it is not free after all.
Read for a detailed fees the school handed out to my brothers here
http://kelsnewlife.blogspot.com/2008/01/4th-january-2008-15th-day-i-lost-my.html
Bro Sheih,
I’ve been involved in PIBG activities for many years and I can vouch that the school need the fees they collect. I can also vouch that most parents do not mind making the contribution as long as they know the money are well spent. After all they spend more per month to send their kids to kindergarten or extra tuition.
However, when the Minister said that education is free and all the payments are optional, these parents begin to doubt whether the school “really” need the money. I know in my son’s school, if all the parents decided not to pay, the school will be in trouble and will have to turn to the PIBG for help.
So, the parents do not mind paying, they only do not want to be treated like idiots being told that everything is free and at the same time told to pay.
Sallam
u say benak….my people would call him bengap. I suppose we can call him bongok too. Minister of Missed-Education.
I’ve always maintained that Kerishamuddin is a dangerous fool. Makin lama makin teruk
I hate this dangerous fool because he is not photogenic. He should learn how to smile correctly. Wish i could throw a sucker punch at this dangerous fool stupid face!
He is a disgrace to his illustrious family.
He is being pampered by UMNO…for selfish reasons. He is an idiot made look smart.
SALAM EVERY BODY,
its that time of the year again where you have to cough blood to pay for your childrens schooling again, well every year all this is a money making scheme for all those education wallas, the books and extrax extrax extra x15 times cost more at the school bookshop than outside. than u have the school colours that is for jasmani with school badge on this low quality clothes which you wash a few times shrink loose color badge dissapear or you name it, I remember my school days from the 70s & 8os what a difference of quality of education. I ask you parents to read your childrens’ school books and than you will understand why our university graduates cannot get jobs, history is all about the malay….sia greatness with a lot of government propoganda, the standard is so low no wonder our education system is producing morons who can’t think, all the international schools are teaching what we malaysians from the 60s,70s,80s actually studied, but look atwhat our children are studying!!!! I asked a form 5 student who was going to sit for his spm or whatever they call it today (straight a+studant)
when the portuguese came to Malacca and he was blur, when I 45yrs old still remembered from std 4 or 5 that it was in 1511, well with a almost school dropout like our very own moron Hishamuddin and the cousin Najib (SAME STORY) ask the old timers about these 2 clowns
more of Playboys than anything else what do you expect. The school that my children attended in Malaysia was sek. ren. Bukit Bandaraya in Bangsar and this is one of the better schools, one thing my children complained about was the double standards the school practised, ask any students from that school, why is it that the muslim students will have some sort of islamic thingy practically once a month and they have food from Mc Donalds, whilst the studants from other races just look. Is this the double standards policy which the government is trying to instill to our young ones, I am one of those professionals who came back to contribute to my country but after 9 years I had enough of this bullshit, I AM LIVING IN SCANDINAVIA now AND TELL YOU THIS THE EDUCATION IS FREE AND HAS BEEN FREE FOR A VERY LONG TIME ,DECADES. THIS SHOWS WHERE THE TAX MONEY IS GOING , HAVING EDUCATED YOUNGER GENERATION NOT MORONS. p.s. even breakfast lunch is free, school books ,everything is free , dont beleive me check out european countries from holland northwards. ‘FIRST IN THE WORLD” BLOODY MORON HISHAMMUDIN YOU ARE AN INSULT TO YOUR FATHER’S MEMORY!
Wow, we have reached a stage of judging a minister by his looking good on picture frame! DVD action is not good enough anymore!
Then again, he sure is ugly as hell! No doubt about that!
Kasim Selamat,
You know what you can do? Plenty of pictures of this stupid face on the web. Get one downloaded and print it out. Then you can throw the sucker punch at him to your heart’s content. Good for releasing pressure & stress. Try it! Have fun!
I think every single person in this country knows that government does lie..It’s not news to us, yes?
Yes, I agree we should pay for our kids education. But imagine the shattered joy of a parent once he sends his children to school thinking that he doesn’t need to fork out a cent, only to be told that he owes the school a few hundred bucks? That’s what makes people angry, not because of the sum, but because of the way they were misled!
A parent told me she had to pay RM300+ for her children’s “special school fees”, for all of her 4 children. She only brought RM100+ in her wallet while sending these kids on the registration day! Imagine the embarassment that she had to deal with in front of other parents and her own children!
Well, I say - (it’s impossible to ask the government to stop the schools from collecting such fees, because even if they say they will, as you can read from my first para, we all know government does lie!) - why don’t the schools cut down the burden that is faced by parents who have many schoolgoing children.
For example, if a couple sends one kid to school and has to pay RM30+, why don’t they charge the same amount for a couple who has 4 schoolgoing children at the same school? (fixed RM30+ per family). That will help the couple who has the 4 kids, since they have to fork out their bank balance for other expenses (school uniform, shoes etc). I don’t know if there’s any school that practises this, but the school that the children go (who I mentioned earlier) charges separately for all of the 4 kids.
By the way, Hisham should be kept in a zoo - so that he can perform to visitors with his keris and animal-sized brain.
1) Hishamuddin’s previous statement as reported by utusan
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/arkib.asp?y=2007&dt=0909&pub=utusan_malaysia&sec=muka%5Fhadapan&pg=mh_07.htm&arc=hive
2) another comment from a dad
http://www.zaharuddin.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=646&Itemid=72
I’ve to pay RM700++ for my girl’s fees, which is not considered as school fee, but written as PIBG, persediaan PMR, komputer, ko-korikulum and etc’s. She is a form three student in SMSTMFP. in P. Chepa, Kelantan.
If happened that you’ve 3 children studying in a boarding school. and you have to pay such amount of fees/ contributions (I do not know how much a form 5 student has to contribute) you will surely get rotten easily when school session begins….
27 Dzulhijjah 1428
Salam
Begitulah selalunya menteri-menteri kita. Cakap berdegar-degar, lepas tu… hampeh pun tarak.
Ramli AR
Time must be really bad when people start to argue over a few puluh ringgit. Must be the current state of the economy.
I know a few teachers and did talked to them about the complaints. Well, first of all, all schools are trying to provide the best for students and when you try to provide the best, it costs money - more tuitions, more hand-outs, more printing costs. They do provide extra classes for those sitting for major exams. They provided the tuition free but still, papers and printing costs money and believe it or not, some teachers did spent their own money.
Now, the problem will be solved if the spending is properly explained. Afterall, everyone wants the best for their kids even if it will costs a few ringgit more.
And it does not help for the minister to twist and turn and tell the parents that this is compulsory and this is not and later, telling the parents that they could ask for a refund! Come on… could not picture myself going to the school and ask the class teacher to give me back my Ringgit Malaysia Sepuloh dan Sen Enam Puloh Sahaja. Well, could not even picture myself having kids for that matter… is it really that costly?
I really admire those dedicated teachers. Its not easy having to face the parents in the klang valley. I was wondering if the parents of those kids having lunch at mc donald with the latest hand-phone were also the same parents who complained about the school fees…
Benak or bengap, the difference is the spelling. The meaning is still the same.
My kids studies in primary chinese and yes , I have to pay fees for computer,security and what not.
The only thing I can’t comprehend with that Minister is …why can’t he just get straight to the point instead of pusing sini pusing sana?
Sudah hilang direction ka atau sudah hilang akal?
Same rhetoric attitude maybe should say “tak suka jangan hantar anak ke sekolah lah” ya kah gitu?
the main point is DOES RAKYAT SEDAR… THEY HAD BEEN CHEATED FOR ALL THIS YEARS AND WILL BE AGAIN.. FOR ANOTHER .. MAYBE 100 YEARS UNDER THIS CORRUPT/MISCHIEF GOVERNMENT!!
rasa2 lagi baik kerajaan bagi duit rm100 kepada setiap anak2 yg sekolah…..lagi ok la dari mansuh yuran juta2 ringgit yg dok heboh2 tuh muahahahaha memalukan jer
Sheih,
I really enjoy your socio-political humour. And having even brushes with celebrities like Maya Karin and Erra Fazira, tell me the truth, have u ever
:E
yup, it aint free as the government spin. just paid more than RM350 of fees, insurance and revision books for my daughter who is in standard 6 this year. when i browse thru the details, there’s a whole lot of fees to pay from computer to sports etc.
i have paid but dont come out shouting about free education. and when some taxpayers questioned which is their right to do so since you have brag about free education, dont rant and rave and asked the parents to collect the fees back. i am sure we cant, kerishamudin. you can wave all the keris you want in the UMNO assembly, but dont rant and rave at taxpayers for telling you the truth that it is untrue that there are no fees to be paid.
I am beginning to think of homeschooling my own kids. May solve a lot of issues.
1st they said must up the fuel price.. must have less subsidy.. for the good of malaysian - we want to make better hospital, better road, better school and better civil servant quarters and etc..
then, we heard someone killed in accident becoz of police road block, potholes, ill-design road and etc.. then a family killed, then a bus passenger killed by a stupid organiser who choose a cheaper bus to go down TOLL JELAPANG~ stupid toll booth done by stupid engineer approved by stupid manager..
even TOLL ROAD IS SO STUPIDLY DESIGN -LPT CANNOT USED BECOZ OF BANJIR.. SO BODOH LAH!!
then u see HOSPITAL SULTANAH BAHIAH, in kedah.. take seven years to finish.. HOSPITAL PEKAN?? I heard take 6years to ready for user.. even lot more hospital, even bridges.. people who dunno about construction, engineering, account, procurement and etc.. will eat lalat.. will be forever in a dream of CORRUPT&MISCHIEF GOVERNMENT… GE come.. talk this and that..
then today our BIG BRO… BRO SHEIH.. bring up an issue of SCHOOL FEE’S… our EDU MINISTER is so dumb.. i wonder how he play chess?? where is the SUBSIDY that being saves for the GOOD of OUR CHILDREN..?? built school.. come on all school had been privately NEGOTIATED… hayyaaa… what we can do?? just vote again for the BN.. and have a peaceFOOL country..
any representative from GUA MUSANG??? what is the progress of the newly built EXTENTION OF HOSPITAL GUA MUSANG??
thanks for BRO SHEIH for bring up this issue.. we were being cheated for years… maybe our parent also had been the same in the past..
haha..Hisham bernok ? Letih lah main ngan dia orang. Dia ingat masa dia annouce tu, general election sebelum buka sekolah. nak buat pancing undi saja tu..
Sheik tak bayar Income Tax ? Kita bukan lagi kerja kuat, tiap2 tahun kena kasi satu bulan punya gaji kat Inland Rev Dept. Macam day light robbery. Kalau buat tak lengakap, dia kasi rob lagi !
Just immagine, i got 3 ongoing school kids. Semua kena bayar school fund, building fund, donation fund, PTA fund, photostating, n bla bla bla fund…sampai beratus.. not forgeting Uniform for kokorikulum, T-shirts.. and we are still require to pay high income tax on time !
Ancut Nyamai….You trapped bamboo river with your”V’…and now you want to trap another with your unfinished sentence to Sheih?
Have he ever…. WHAT???…finish the sentence.
Are you enjoying yourself?
I hv 3 schooling kids, well written bro.
If you in Johor, have to x2 the expense + Sekolah Agama, which will easily take another RM150 per kid. Which during my school time only 50cents fee/mth and kitab will cost less than RM20. Now they make it fancy kitabs cost 200x extra price.
Asilawati Kitajriah Baharom ? She is the worst HM I ever met. She is an apple polishing HM among the politicians and those in power. She control all her teachers till all of them work just for her. She control all the contractors in the school for her own benefits… She used the PTA funds for painting the school walls…Asilawati Kitajriah Baharom talks just like Hishammudin… father of all liars.
Asilawati Kitajriah Baharom is a sick woman, same medical problem like what Datin seri Jean was suffering… In that school, she created some political tensions and conflicts among Parents and among teachers.
I had 4 of my kids studying there before (9 years ago), I can’t stand the political game she was playing, so after 5 year of keeping quiet, I transfered all my kids to another school even I have given a lot of contributions in efforts and materials to the school. Reasons? She was so obsessed with big guns until one time the PTA was controlled by some jobless UMNO “runners” who are spinners and coffee shop chatters from a nearby Taman .
The effects? Only children from the parents of her circles are given all the posts and benefits.. the rest were merely children.
Sheih Said: I can confirm the above info is correct.
This is the story of Asilawati Kitajriah Baharom
Jean, it’s not that parents are reluctant to sacrifice for their children’s education. RM30 or RM300 per child we can fork out if we really have to. But parents expect better returns. Sometimes schools are schools and teachers are teachers by name only. Children come back from school not learning anything and we have to send them for outside tuition if we want them to learn something educational. Free education WTF, but empty promises. We pay for corrupted ideology and thinking the teach at schools! I wish money wasted by the govt on unnecessary things should be spent on truly absolutely free education as told by Manjit. That’s a sweet dream, we are not Scandinavians.
Scandalous. That’s what this bunch of crooked BN ministers are! Mu friend has four school- going kids and they all attend the same school. Each year, the school headmaster imposes a compulsory RM50 PTA fees for each and that means RM200 for him to contribute to the “well being” of someone well connected. The purpose and function of PTA is to foster a closer relationship between the teacher and the parents but this has become the lucrative source of income for certain well connected people. Why does my friend have to pay for 4 PTA fees when he has only one lone voice in the PTA? Why can’t the Ministry of Education provide allocation for the PTA to be set up and managed?
hantutelur, since you put it that way, I do agree with u. Its sad innit. The people would not complain if hisham did not make that promise (for free education) in the first place.
However, to say that they came back from school not learning anything is quite a sweeping statement, imho. Not learning the right thing may be. But you cant fault the teacher for that. They are bound by the curricullum.
Why do school charged more? You cant blame the school and the teachers totally. The allocation from the gomen is not enough and like I said, the teachers / schools have to raise their own fund to provide a better education and school environment for our kids. Like you, I dont mind not having a space tourist as long as they could channel the cost of having one to these schools. It will really avoid these tachers from turning into beggars for the sake of our kids.
In other words, I would agree if someone took that keris and shove it down the policy-makers’ throat but not the teachers.
Forget about shoving it down the throat b’cos they will pull it out again and turn it into another bloody circus show. Just lop off that limp body extremity…I mean the tongue.
(w9, his wife did not commit any crime. Dont punish her).
u say benak….my people would call him bengap. I suppose we can call him bongok too. Minister of Missed-Education.
AND MY PEOPLE SAY BANGANG!
your kids go to university and the bangang says,
uneverstady.
jbdragon.
well said. Totally agree with you, and could not have said it better.