KLANG: A private school that has found itself on the Education Ministry’s list of schools with disciplinary and drug problems, wants clarification on how the 402 schools were identified.
Hin Hua High School, which is located at Persiaran Raja Muda Musa, in a statement today, said its management has fielded numerous concerned calls from parents and school alumni following news reports of the list.
Its principal Ng Swee Geok said the privately-owned institution has never submitted any disciplinary report to the ministry that would put the school on the list.
"Deputy Education Minister Datuk Chong Sin Woon had, in response to the list released, explained that the hotspot schools were identified based on disciplinary reports submitted by the respective schools.
"Hin Hua High School has neither participated nor responded to such submission. Neither the police nor the ministry have conducted any investigations into this matter.
"We are extremely concerned about the reasons of being identified as a hotspot school," she said in a statement, which was read out to reporters who attended a press conference at the school on Friday.
Ng said their statistics of success spoke of the school's reputation.
The school has also attained five-star ratings in the ministry’s Standard Quality for Private Education Institution (Skips) in 2009, 2012 and 2015.
She said the school scored full marks in school discipline management, among all the grading criteria for Skips, for three rounds of evaluation consecutively.
"Hin Hua High School has also been ISO and SIRIM certified every year since 2011, and this is proof of our affirmative successful action in our education and quality control.
"Annual survey also found that parents' satisfaction rate towards all educational implementations has been satisfactory."
Ng said it was an unfair suppression for being identified as a hotspot school, and welcomes the ministry to visit their school to carry out a fair judgment and clear their reputation.
She said Hin Hua would also write in to the ministry to ask the conditions behind the ministry's move to identify it as a hotspot school, and urged the ministry to clarify news report on the matter.
It was reported Thursday that MOE had identified 402 schools for being hotspots for disciplinary and drugs problems.
The list, which was presented during a Committee on Students Disciplinary Problems meeting in June included representatives from the police, parent-teacher association, and non-governmental organisations.