WARISAN SLAMS EDUCATION MINISTRY FOR CAUSING FINANCIAL BURDEN TO PARENTS
21 Feb 2021
KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) has slammed the Education Ministry for its flip-flop and lack of proper planning, resulting in unnecessary financial burden to parents and families.
Its vice president Datuk Junz Wong said he does not see the point of launching DidikTV and urging parents to purchase laptops in the first place as it was also announced that school will be reopening soon.
While laptops will be useful, the timing of purchase has greatly affected the financial status of many parents and families, he added.
"Computers, laptops or gadgets are useful, nobody will question that. But if given a choice, many families would prefer buying it later when finances are more stable. Isn't the government aware that many people have lost their jobs (due to the pandemic)?
"Between buying a RM2,500 computer and buying food for the family, which would be more important to a family who has no steady income now? Of course the latter," he said in a statement today.
The Tanjung Aru Assemblyman lamented the government should have made proper plannings instead of making hasty and flip flop decisions, so that parents did not need to hastily purchase gadgets during financial trying times.
"If the government had been deliberating the reopening of schools, then parents should have been told so. Parents would not need to hastily purchase new gadgets. This would have saved parents thousands of ringgit for the time being.
"And when the economy improves, jobs have been secured, it is still not too late to purchase laptops."
Towards the end, Junz said that this shows the government is out of touch from the hardships affecting people.
"The government seems to be out of touch from the hardship faced by people. Don't the Cabinet Ministers know that technology improves over time? The same amount of money spent to purchase laptops today, can fetch a better specification laptop a few months down the road."
"And since schools are going to reopen, those purchased laptops have turned from being essentials to being optional. These laptops are now left idling in one corner of the house while school is reopened."
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