Why no question on RM2.6b ‘donation’ for SPM?

Biting answers to SPM moral education questions

Anonymous #13114320: Now that we know the Education Board comes up with such dodgy questions, I would advise all parents to tell their children in the future to fail the SPM Moral education paper instead.

I would answer those questions like this:

A. Why shouldn’t they participate in anti-government rallies?

Students in democratic nations participate in anti-government rallies. The only exceptions are countries run by dictators.

B. How should schools prevent students from participating in anti-government rallies?

Schools should build a prison to prevent students from participating. And if they did, they should lock them up and charge them with sedition, under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) or even hudud law.

C. We should support Student B’s stance. Why?

We need to support Student B’s view because this is a dictatorship. We need to sing praises to the dictator and his regime like the North Koreans do.

If we don’t, students will be punished with lower education funding, lower grades for Moral education and most of all, higher Goods and Services Tax (GST) and higher cost of living.

And by the way, they forgot to mention who Student B is – he’s a minister’s son.

Yeoh Chee Weng: The Moral education paper is a farce and a waste of time. Craft a paper on critical thinking skill instead.

Thank you for the article. I enjoyed reading the answers by the academicians and politicians.

Mushiro: The government has lost the support of 80 percent of Chinese, 55 percent of Indians, 45 percent of Malays and 35 percent of Sabahans and Sarawakians.

Now the government is desperate to win over SPM students.

The Analyser: What’s all the fuss about?

Malaysia’s parentally repressive/religiously in doctrinal/’education by compulsion’ system is directed at producing submissive, manipulable, non-thinking drones incapable of initiative, intelligent thought or discussion and individuality.

Abasir: I submit a question for the next SPM:

“The prime minister has been exposed for having secretly deposited RM2.6 billion into his personal bank accounts. What should the people do?

A. Spit on him if and when they see him.

B. Throw a shoe at him.

C. Demand the setting up of a royal commission of inquiry with powers to prosecute.

D. All of the above.

Kangkung: When you have to sit for a moral paper prepared by immoral people, this is what you get – immoral propaganda.

‘Did minister have hand in politicised SPM paper?’

Myrights: What am I missing here? What is wrong with asking, “What were the positive effects of queuing up to collect water during a water supply cut”?

The question does not seem to be wrong to me as it inculcates civilised behaviour. Can someone enlighten me why the question is wrong?

Hplooi: @MyRights, your question on “why the question is wrong” (viz whether it is an issue of civil discipline) would rate you as a prescient student in a philosophy class.

But in a course on the philosophy of civil rights or human rights or “what constitute justice” (a recorded question first raised more than two millennia ago), the students would be asked to answer in the context of ‘justice’ or ‘the common good’ instead of civil discipline.

Philosophy 101, @MyRights.

HaveAgreatDay: As the education minister, of course, the buck stops with Mahdzir Khalid.

Yet, those who are in the teaching service knows it is up to the chief examiner and members of each subject panel to decide on the selection of questions for the paper.

It is hardly a new development that the Umnoputras have long ago politicised our nation’s education system – just look at the topics and content of the history syllabus.

My contention is that, that merely forcing the government to change the language of instruction to English will not change the core problem afflicting our education policy.

Sleepy: One reason why nations don’t move forward is because they ‘play’ with our future – the youths.

Quigonbond: Apparently, exam papers are going to be, if not already, official secrets.

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