Stop this elitism practice


  • Letters
  • Wednesday, 07 Nov 2012

MY 12-year-old niece lives with her parents less than 100 metres from SMK (P) Sri Aman, Petaling Jaya. She has been studying in a primary school several kilometres away and has just completed her UPSR examination.

Her parents had applied to place her in SMK (P) Sri Aman but the school has decreed that students who did not obtain 5As in the UPSR trial exam cannot be placed in the school.

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