Missing School Kids at the SKs


Melting pot: Pupils from different races showing their Chinese New Year greetings at SJKC Serdang Baru 2 in this file picture.

KUALA LUMPUR: A minister is baffled as to why more and more families of various ethnicities are not keen to send their children to national primary schools.

In raising this matter, Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor urged the Federal Territories Edu­cation Department to find out the root cause behind this development.

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