Top 20 High Performance Schools

Of recent, the Government of Malaysia under the Education Ministry have came up with a list of schools that are of "High Performance School" list. But of the 20 schools that have been announced recently, it causes uproar amongst many quarters of Malaysians who thinks certain schools are left out even-though they were qualified.

There are even a few states that were not even in the Top 20 of the list at all. Why were there clusters in certain states? How was the evaluation being done? Of that 4 are from Kuala Lumpur, 2 are from each states of Selangor, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Kedah respectively and, 1 from each state in Cyberjaya, Perak, Penang, Malacca, Putrajaya, Perlis respectively.

Where is Pahang, Terengganu, Sabah, Sarawak, and Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan? Are they lacking of something? I don't think so. How do they actually evaluate these Top 20 schools? That is what I want to know. How do you judge a school is a High Performance School? That is so subjective to measure how a school is performing well. There may be schools who are performing extremely well, but they are not in the list.

Instead of a High Performance School, why not list the opposite with Top 20 instead? I am sure we are also interested to see such schools in the country.

Such Top 20 High Performance School list would have motivated the Top 20 schools in the country but it doesn't motivate schools who are equally competitive with those on the list. Imagine this would leave other students and even teachers disparity than good. As I have left my high school for approximately 6 years now and is always in the loop with my former alma mater and my batch mates.

I am sure all my 400-odd high school batch mates would disagree with such ratings. It has done more harm than good in my own opinion.

Why spend $20 million by giving to these Top 20 so-called "High Performance Schools?" Spend it on training these teachers who complained "Saya tak fasih Bahasa Inggeris lah. Tak boleh ajar Sains & Matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris". Go spend on them on training.