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ARE TEACHERS ONE OF BN’S VOTE BANKS?
3 June 2014
Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor…urged teachers to return to politics under BN’s fold, after conceding a past ruling barring teachers from politics was a mistake.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/264615
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27 March 2017
Malay Mail OnlineVerified account @themmailonline
Five teachers get show-cause letters for criticising govt
KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 — The Education Ministry has summoned five teachers who allegedly criticised the government on a shared stage with Opposition politicians recently.
Its minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said the teachers were issued show-cause letters to explain their purportedly overly-critical remarks against the government, adding that disciplinary action may be taken.
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He was reported adding that one of the five held a senior position in an unnamed Opposition party, and that the ministry would only dismiss the teachers as a last resort.
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27 March 2017
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malaysiakini.comVerified account @malaysiakini
Teachers’ right to support opposition parties, minister told
Pakatan Harapan leaders have blasted Education Minister Mahdzir Khalid for telling teachers who actively promote the opposition or discredit the government to resign from the civil service.
Amanah’s Kota Raja MP Siti Mariah Mahmud said teachers have every right to support a political party that can improve their working conditions.
“With the rise in information technology and growing interest in politics among the people, it is pretty strange when a national leader like Mahdzir chooses to be conservative and old-fashioned in denying the right of teachers to support political parties that are not in government.
“Perhaps it’s because the attitude of outdated leaders, such as this, that is causing the country to fail to reach developed nation status by the target year 2020, forcing it to be extended to 2050,” Siti Mariah said in a statement today.
“I suggest Mahdzir stops interfering in the affairs of teachers outside of school hours, and instead prioritises efforts in raising the standards of teaching and learning in schools,” she said.
She said it is no secret that teachers are burdened with administrative and clerical tasks that interfere with their teaching duties, and such extra workload even spills into their after work hours.
They are also reported to be required to attend courses that have nothing to do with the teaching profession, said the MP.
“With all these is burdens unrelated to their job, surely teachers have a right to choose and participate in other political parties with the hope they can guarantee the quality of education in the country would be improved to the utmost,” she said.
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In another statement, Bandar Kuching MP Chong Chieng Jen’s special assistant Kelvin Yii said he was “appalled” by Mahdzir’s warning to teachers, which showed a “clear disrespect for the principles of democracy and well as the use of fear tactics to control and intimidate civil servants”.
Yii said BN should not demand “blind loyalty” from civil servants as the taxpayers are the ones who pay their their salaries.
“Civil servants are paid by revenue generated from the country. Revenue from a country comes from many sources, which one of it is income tax, which is paid by the public.
“So it is not the government, nor is it the BN, that pays the salaries of teachers and civil servants. The loyalty of these civil servants is to the country, not to a political party nor to an individual,” he said.
Yii said government agencies should not be politicised and any general order that limits the freedom of speech and of association, as enshrined in the Federal Constitution, should be reformed.
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/377149
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Malay Mail OnlineVerified account @themmailonline 2 hours ago
Teachers actively discrediting govt should resign, says education minister
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KUALA TERENGGANU, March 26 — Teachers actively promoting the opposition or discrediting the government have been advised to resign from the civil service.
Education Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said all civil servants should realise that they are bound by the rules established in the General Orders and criticising to the point of defaming was not right.
“If he or she is still a teacher and then climbs the stage to slam the Government. Give lectures, and then add defamatory elements. I would like to remind him or her that it would be better to leave the profession.
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He was speaking to the press after a dialogue session with teachers about the ministry’s major policies at Taman Tamadun Islam, here.
Mahdzir said only a small number of the 435,000 teachers across the country were actively involved in such activities and the government was monitoring the situation.
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June 2014
High-ranking officials in the Education Ministry had called a teacher since last week, “advising” her to remove Facebook postings on Dyana Sofya which they deemed as “anti-government”.
YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
Lim slams education ministry for asking teacher to remove Dyana poster online
The Malaysian Insider
The Education Ministry has been criticised for ordering a teacher to remove her Facebook page after she posted campaign posters of DAP’s Teluk Intan by-election candidate Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, claiming it was anti-government.
The party’s adviser Lim Kit Siang said it was ironic that Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor had urged teachers to return to politics but the teacher was reprimanded for supporting Dyana Sofya.
“It is indeed the height of irony that on one hand, Tengku Adnan is urging teachers to return to politics under Barisan Nasional’s fold, conceding that the headmasters, principals and teachers were the ‘real movers’ of Umno, MCA, MIC and BN in the past, but on the other hand, high-ranking officials from Education Ministry were reprimanding a teacher for posting campaign posters of Dyana Sofya on Facebook,” Lim said in a statement today.
“Is this what (Prime Minister Datuk Seri) Najib Razak meant when he boasted that he wanted to make Malaysia the ‘best democracy in the world’ – where teachers have only the right to take part in politics if they become the ‘prime movers” of Barisan Nasional but not Pakatan Rakyat – becoming practitioners of hypocrisy and double standards?”
https://my.news.yahoo.com/lim-slams-education-ministry-asking-teacher-remove-dyana-110133510.html
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Tengku Adnan’s comment comes as a teacher was reprimanded by a special officer in the Education Ministry for posting campaign posters of DAP’s Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud on Facebook.
Malaysiakini
3:00PM Jun 3, 2014
Come back to BN politics, minister tells teachers
Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor has urged teachers to return to politics under BN’s fold, after conceding a past ruling barring teachers from politics was a mistake.
“Be it Umno, MIC, MCA, BN, teachers are the real movers of these parties.
“We may have made a mistake 10 to 12 years ago by not allowing teachers to hold positions in political parties and they were forced to resign (from BN).
“But we have now allowed teachers to be active again (in politics) so I appeal to teachers to come back to us, help us,” he told a teachers appreciation ceremony in Kuala Lumpur today.
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Tengku Adnan said teachers’ non-participation in politics may have weakened BN as they were initially the prime movers of the coalition.
“Perhaps it is this which has weakened us. Because we don’t have the prime movers, the prime movers were the teachers, headmasters and principals,” he said.
In 2010, the ban on teachers from participating in active politics was lifted though other civil servants are still barred.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/264615
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The Rakyat Post
Ministry stifling our views, says Malacca teacher
KUALA LUMPUR, June 2:
A Malay language teacher at a primary school in Alor Gajah, Malacca, has voiced her dissatisfaction over the Education Ministry restricting the voices of teachers nationwide.
Rosliza Rosli, 45, who is currently teaching at SK Rumbia, when contacted by The Rakyat Post, expressed her feelings particularly after she received a phone call from an ministry officer that her status update via her Facebook account was considered “extreme”.
She said the officer complained that her status update could influence others to hate the government and warned her that teachers were not allowed to be involved in politics or display any leaning towards any political party.
“I disagree with what the officer said. In reality, there are teachers involved in politics, to the extent of holding party posts.
“What I wrote in my Facebook account was not defamatory or seditious, but was just an observation on current issues,” she told The Rakyat Post today.
According to Rosliza, a teacher for 17 years, she was also reprimanded by the officer who asked her to remove her status update.
Rosliza claimed that the officer was being unprofessional as she was allegedly threatened with disciplinary action if she did not follow the rules.
http://www.therakyatpost.com/news/2014/06/02/ministry-stifling-views-says-malacca-teacher/
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Malaysiakini
Teacher on ministry’s radar over Facebook posts
Aidila Razak | 9:26AM Jun 3, 2014
Posting DAP’s Teluk Intan candidate Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud’s campaign poster onto Facebook, among others, has landed a teacher in hot water with the government.
According to the teacher, who spoke on condition of anonymity, high-ranking officials in the Education Ministry has called her since last week to “advise” her to remove the postings as they are deemed “anti-government”.
She claimed that in the latest in a series of calls and text messages she has received, a special officer to the Education Ministry director-general had told her to close down her Facebook page and that she will be “watched”.
“He said: ‘We will monitor from time to time’.
“Can you understand what he is saying? That’s okay. I’ll just wait and see (what they do). For all I know, I’ll get a transfer letter,” she said when contacted.
“It is really silly. There are teachers involved in sex scandals, teachers who don’t go to class, schools without facilities and they want to spend time monitoring Facebook.”
The teacher, who has served for 16 years, said that she was told that there had been a complaint made against her.
Her other postings, which were deemed anti-government, include a 1980’s news clipping quoting first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman calling for the abolition of Umno.
“There are teachers who are Umno division heads, who attend Umno annual general assembly as delegates, but that is fine?” she further asked.
She added that the ministry officials had also allegedly cautioned her against taking the matter to the media.
http://m.malaysiakini.com/news/264573
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