KUCHING: Association of Aided Chinese Primary Schools Kuching, Samarahan and Serian Divisions president Datuk Jonathan Chai thinks that students should be trained to clean toilets in school.
He said parents should allow their children to engage in such ‘non-academic’ activities.
Encouraging students to do so, he said, would have a positive impact on their character.
“In this way, they will be trained to be more responsible and proactive in looking for any opportunity to serve and lend their hands voluntarily in time of need,” he told New Sarawak Tribune.
“These days, most parents are too protective of their children and rather reluctant to allow their children to undertake this kind of ‘non-academic’ activities which are normally within the job scope of cleaners hired by the government.
“Such responsibilities were not new to students in the seventies or eighties when they were assigned by way of a duty roster to maintain the cleanliness of toilets in their schools.”
Chai was commenting on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s remarks that he had ordered the Education Ministry to inspect school toilets and also to ensure every student was responsible for their cleanliness.
