2013/05/27 星洲日报/国内版
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| 邹寿汉：董总、彭亨董联会及华教工作者等， 在重新启动在彭亨州爭取设立一所华文独中时， 不会自我限制。（图：星洲日报 |
（雪兰莪‧八打灵再也26日讯）董总署理主席邹寿汉说，董总、彭亨董联会及华教工作者等，在重新启动在彭亨州爭取设立一所华文独中时，不会自我限制。
他说，彭亨州迄今仍没有一所真正的独中，说明“520精神＂尚未落实。
他解释，重新启动爭取设立独中必须就现实情况进行，如在哪里建校比较合適、哪个地区比较多小学等。
“就算我们在关丹建设独中，也不会影响他（方天兴）的学校，因为那（关中）是一所收费的私立国民中学。＂
他今日受询时对星洲日报说，由董总主催、彭亨州华校董联会主办的“关丹中华中学爭议大型匯报会＂首场將在关丹举行，然后不排除也在文冬及劳勿等地举行。
欢迎分校方式建独中
他指出，董总欢迎以宽柔华文独中分校方式在关丹建立独中，一所真正的独中不在於是否实行双轨制，而是独中的本质，即教学媒介语为华语及统考课程为教学基础。
“再者，董事部必须有完全的自主权，以决定学校考试制度。＂
他重申，如果董总愿意接受关中，那將会为现有的60所独中带来第二次的改制。
“这是严重损害60所独中的做法，破坏8万名独中生的前途，甚至抹杀了600万华人坚持母语教育的决心。＂
参加统考问题· 董教总意见一致
此外，日前有言论指是否让学生参与统考並非董总说了算，而在於董教总的决定一事，邹寿汉说：“这些都是挑拨离间的说法，董教总意见一致，除非有新的情况出现，否则不会意见不一致。＂
询及董总是否曾针对关中是否参加统考一事与教总详谈时，邹寿汉说：“这（开放统考）不是新的课题，董教总曾多次谈过这（开放统考）课题，我们只是秉承先贤30多年来的决定、立场及原则。＂
他说，先贤曾多番强调统考是校內考试，除非受到政府承认，成为公共考试后，或许才考虑开放让非独中生参加。
另外，邹寿汉强调，董总不可能也没有权力打压一所私立国中，董总向来为华教奋斗，从来都打开大门，若任何人要详谈，董总都乐意参与，包括关中事件。
他坦承，对於关中批文修改的可能性，其实並不乐观，机会渺茫。
520集会· 董总参与程度有目共睹
另一方面，邹寿汉说，董总在“520申办关丹独中和平集会＂中的参与程度有多深多广，是有目共睹的。
“因此我们不担心，別人会理解的，不会断定我们（董总）与｀520集会’无关。＂
林连玉精神奖得主陈玉康日前指叶新田向来不积极配合关丹復办独中一事，包括支持520集会，还谈甚么落实和启动“520决议＂。
（星洲日报）
Chong
Hwa will not be affected: Dong Zong
Last updated on 27 May 2013 - 10:01pm
The Sun Daily ·By Kong See Hoh
PETALING JAYA (May 27, 2013): Dong Zong
(United Chinese School Committees Association) deputy president Chow Siew Hon
said a new Chinese independent school for Kuantan will not affect SM Chong Hwa,
which is being built, as they belong to different categories.
He said Pahang is yet to have a bona fide
Chinese independent school, which means the "spirit of 520" – a
resolution adopted at the May 20, 2012 rally in Kuantan to push for a Chinese
independent school there – has not been realised.
He was speaking to Sin Chew Daily on Sunday
in response to Chong Hwa board chairman Tan Sri Pheng Yin Huah's objection for
any plan by Dong Zong to build another Chinese school in Kuantan as Pheng had
said that it will compete with Chong Hwa.
However, Chow said Dong Zong and Chinese
educationists will not restrict themselves to any town in the east coast state
in looking for a suitable site for the school.
"Even if we decide to have the school
in Kuantan, it will not affect his (Pheng) school as it (Chong Hwa) is a
fee-paying private secondary school," he said.
He said the Pahang Dong Lian, which is
affiliated to Dong Zong, will hold roadshows to give its take on the
controversy surrounding Chong Hwa.
The Federation of Pahang Chinese School
Management Boards, which obtained approval last year to build SM Chong Hwa, has
insisted that it is a bona fide Chinese independent school and will adopt a
"dual-track model" to allow students to sit for both government
examinations and the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC).
However, Dong Zong did not agree due to
contentious preconditions that it should use Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of
instruction and adopt the national curriculum.
Dong Zong is also adamant that it will not
allow students of Chong Hwa to sit for UEC.
Chow said allowing students of a
non-typical Chinese independent school to sit for UEC, which is a closed
examination, will jeopardise the future of the 60 bona fide Chinese schools.
SM
Chong Hwa ‘no’ to new school
Last updated on 27 May 2013 - 09:00am
The Sun Daily ·By Kong See Hoh
KUANTAN (May 26, 2013): The board of SM
Chong Hwa, the new Chinese independent school in Kuantan, is against any move
by Dong Zong (United Chinese School Committees Association) to build another
such school in the east coast town.
Chong Hwa board chairman Tan Sri Pheng Yin
Huah said he has no objection to Dong Zong wanting to set up a second
independent Chinese school in Pahang as long as it is not located in Kuantan.
He was commenting on Dong Zong president Dr
Yap Sin Tian's remark that it intends to seek approval to build an independent
school based on resolutions of the May 20 Chinese educationists rally in
Kuantan last year.
The government later gave the green light
for Chong Hwa to be built but certain terms in the letter of approval put the
Federation of Pahang Chinese School Management Boards, which is headed by Pheng
and tasked with building the school, at loggerheads with Dong Zong.
While the federation insists that Chong Hwa
is a bona fide independent Chinese school and will adopt a "dual-track
model", whereby its students will sit for both government examinations and
the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), Dong Zong deemed it otherwise due to
contentious conditions that it must use Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of
instruction and adopt the national curriculum.
Dong Zong is adamant that it will not allow
students of Chong Hwa to sit for UEC.
In a press statement on Saturday, Pheng
said having another independent Chinese school in the state is not a bad thing
but it should not be located in Kuantan or eastern Pahang or pose any form of
competition to Chong Hwa, which is trying to get some of the conditions in the
approval letter amended.
He said although certain conditions for
approval need to be sorted out, the main aim of establishing an independent
Chinese school in Kuantan has been achieved, the Chinese press reported today.
"We feel that if Dong Zong wants to
fight for another school in Pahang, it should not use the 'May 20 resolutions'
as basis.
"And if it is planning to have it in
Kuantan, we will definitely object," said Pheng, who is also president of
Hua Zong (Federation of Chinese Associations of Malaysia).
