Be complacent and you're out, high performance schools told

Published: Tuesday April 27, 2010 MYT 2:42:00 PM
Updated: Tuesday April 27, 2010 MYT 2:43:35 PM
Be complacent and you're out, high performance schools told

JOHOR BARU: Be complacent and we’ll pull back the recognition.

This was Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s reminder to the 20 high performance schools nationwide, that such recognition was based on performance.
He urged the schools including teachers and principals to be creative and innovative to maintain their performance.

Muhyiddin, who is Education Minister, said the schools should also provide assistance to lesser performing schools within their area.

This would not only help to uplift their standards but assist the other schools in the process, he said adding that all stakeholders including parents and students had role to play.

Muhyiddin also said the Government was focused on nurturing pre-schoolers and primary school students, whom he described as easier to mould.

He was speaking at the closing ceremony of SK Bandar Baru Uda 2 Parent-Teacher Association annual general meeting.

SK Bandar Baru Uda 2 is one of the high performance schools.

He earlier visited SMK Sultan Ismail and launched its 50th year celebrations as well as two new school buildings.

Muhyiddin, on his one-day working visit to the state, is expected to tour the new Customs, Immigration and Quarantine complex and meet state Barisan Nasional leaders.