Yayasan Pendidikan Kawasan Bandar Tun Razak Chairman, Mr Chew Yin Keen has made his comments on the newly implementing decision to start formal schooling by Ministry of Education lately. The Government has implemented to start school at the age of 5 instead of age 7 according to Education Act 1966.
He commented that the Government should take consideration of the responses and feedback from the public (people) as well as obtain references from foreign education policies before implementation.
He believes that it may not be suitable for the children to start schooling early as formal education requires long learning time, moreover, these young children have lack of concentration to adapt, as an average concentration of these children can only be maintained at about 30 minutes.
The Standard Curriculum for Primary Schools (KRRS) said to be pupil-centric, with an emphasis of fun learning, critical and creative thinking, reasoning skills, communication and ICT literacy. Nevertheless, traditional spoon feed learning is still very much adapted by some local schools that even some students do not fully understand its purpose, and just imagine how well a 5-year-old child can understand?
Although the standard of KSSR advocates no ranking system academically and examinations are exempted, however it may directly and indirectly affected the psychology and emotion of these young children. The hidden competition and overemphasis of academic performance among the students will give pressure to them unnecessary. The children must enjoy their early education.
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