THE sound of children wailing rang out at several schools in Penang as hundreds of seven-year-old pupils attended formal classes for the first time.
Over in SJK (C) Sin Kang in Air Itam, Goh Sin Peng found it hard to settle down and face the crowd as she repeatedly called out for her mother Goh Lay Chiao, 31.
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