When the students involved in the anti palm oil show were Year 3 children aged 7 to 8, what does that tell you?
Who scripted and choreographed the show?
The kids?
Using children entrusted to the school for a balanced universal education does not necessary require educating them with a one-sided view (the Western view) on palm oil plantations. Au contraire, that's against the very objective of a balanced education.
We know Westerners don't talk about their own desecration of their woods and wildlife, but hypocritically, they to talk down on non-Westerners and rave about the welfare of the orangutans and the survival of their rain forests. Yes, you never hear them speak of the palm oil workers, but apes? they just go ape shit!
It's misusing those lil' kids, biasing their education to be one sided, the Western side, and quite inappropriate for Malaysian nationals of a nation whose economy depends on palm oil products contributing to at least some RM100 billion or so to the national GDP (approx. 6%). It's to say treasonable at the worst.
And for any expatriate teacher/principal, it's non-sensible and inappropriate discourtesy to the host nation at the best.
As for freedom of expression, those teachers are free to express themselves BUT they should NOT misuse children entrusted to their educational care to mutter Kerbau about freedom of expression. Don't hide behind the kids' diapers.
I support Teresa Kok.
