Lesson schools need to learn

Gangsterism in school: Students celebrating a Gang 24 special day outside a school in Klang.

The recent rampage outside schools has again highlighted a major problem with schools – the weaknesses in a system that overlooks poor performing students, making them easy targets for gangs.

THEY could have been scenes from the Wild Wild West. It was in Klang, the western gateway into the country but instead of cowboys, horses and guns, there were schoolboys, kapcais and firecrackers.