IT is heartening to learn that the new Education Minister, Dr Maszlee Malik, is concerned about the heavy school bags carried by young school children. Another solution to this issue is focusing more on the school assessment component that empowers teachers to select or, better still, create their own material. My personal communications with school teachers indicate that they are made to focus more on this aspect. If this trend continues, materials published by the unscrupulous publishers will remain, weighing down our children’s school bags unnecessarily. Secondly, I have learnt from PIBG (parent-teacher association) meetings that some parents are concerned about the food sold in school canteens.

Source: The Star June 14, 2018 00:11 UTC