Education Dept: report students who don’t wear helmets”.

Dear editor,

Appreciate if you can publish this write ups

I am frustrated and wish to add on the recent article “Education Dept: report students who don’t wear helmets”.

This story hv been discussed / complaint by the public for many years now. Its attitude problem and it’s reflect on most of Malaysian population be it the adult or the young folks. We hv a culture / behavior of “tidak apa” NO policemen or when authority is not around attitude. As for the school admins, they hv done their level best to tackle discipline or indiscipline issues in schools. But when this happens outside the school jurisdiction, they are no added incentives for everyone to resolve this issue. It can be from non responsive law enforcement attitudes or the fear of retaliation / revenge. I can vouch in my area, where students after school or even in the morning when they are going to school, rides without helmets, smoking, speeding at traffic junctions or going through a red light and I’m sure riding with no license. This also happen in an area where uniform personnel are living. It has become a normal day routine for both the uniform personnel to pass by each other without any enforcement. This flouting of the law is replicated in many areas in urban KL, what more in rural areas? I pity the governments NKRA effort as we know this secondary student will eventually become the future citizens of the country. If at a young age they are not educated in the “laws”, we should not blame if our youth population is having a serious attitude issues when they grow up.

Ras
Setiawangsa