Allow the moderate way to flourish

WE must have read these little reports in our newspapers – female Malay students required to wear headscarves, non-Malay students forced to wear baju kurung, boys discouraged from wearing shorts and a national school that allegedly discouraged students from taking Mandarin and Tamil language papers in PMR if they wanted to get into Form Four science stream. 

All these are not government policies but the decisions of ignorant headmasters who impose their own prejudices in schools. Teachers and students, not wanting to offend their principals, are allowing these bigots to get away with such ad hoc regulations.