The Hidden Conspiracy

The Language Class

On teacher’s day, the Pengetua made a very strong remarks and that is everyone must speak Malay as we are Malaysian. I have no issue with this as being Malaysian we must at least understand the Bahasa Malaysia. There is absolutely nothing wrong with English as it’s an International language. Second language such as Tamil or Chinese is definitely an advantage as it’s keeps our traditional culture alive.

Last year my son had no choice but to sit for the Chinese PMR as this has been the rule of the school in the past. This year the Pengetua took "pity" and let the students choose not to take the Chinese paper. So a lot of students opted out of it. Ok here is the conspiracy.

In the past, there were insufficient Chinese teachers and so the previous Pengetua was able to get some funds out to hire external teachers to teach the second language. As such there were additional teachers to teach the second language. Now many students have decided not to sit for the paper, the additional teachers are NO longer required. Ok here is my question – what happened to the funds that was allocated for this?

The School Beautification

When a teacher gets promoted to be a Pengetua, it's almost at the final stage of their career life. There is still one final promotion to achieve and that is the school must win the 3K competition (Kebersihan, Keceriaan dan Keselamatan) or was it the 5K's. I strongly believe that the Pengetua is all out to achieve her final promotion. Of the 3 K mention she has achieved 2 of them. This can be done as there is over RM30,000 expenses made on the school beautification. If I am NOT further mistaken, most of the Pengetua who have achieved this promotion would have build a nice fountain in the school compound (note that now the school has a lovely fountain). She would take things one step at a time so now she has a balance of 1K or was it 3 more K's to go.

As a parent I still like to know the ratinonal of the RM30K on the beautification. The school is still new and priority is to repair the school field to promote sports and not to build fountains and "pondoks" for beautification purpose.

We still want the rational on the spending on the beautification of the school.

Drugs in school and Smoking

Sometimes when I drive along BU4 to get home, I noticed a number of students smoking happily along the road just behind the school. I am disgusted at this – imagine students smoking in full school uniform. What is going on with the discipline in the school? There was also news that narcotic officers were seen presence in the school as there has been a drug related incident in the school.

I checked with my son and he confirmed that incident was real. This never happened in the past. Why is it happening now?

Parents please express your concern over this matter. Transfering your children out is not the solution. We must do our part to help the rest and bring back the reputation of the school which we are so proud of.

Can the P.I.B.G. play an active role in this matter before the situation worsen.

Even the neighbouring schools have heard about this. So what is happening the the pride of BU4?

The END of "Bakat Malam:

Now has been changed to Hari Bakat. Event completed on the 28th June.

Denggi Fever in School

It is no surprising that several students have been hospitalized due to Denggi fever. The flooded school field and the clogged drainage pipe are creating a sanctuary for mosquito to breed. By the way Pn Pengetua, in case you have forgotten your Biology.

Under optimal conditions, the egg of an Aedes mosquito can hatch into a larva in less than a day.

The larva then takes about four days to develop in a pupa, from which an adult mosquito will emerge after two days.

Three days after the mosquito has bitten a person and taken in blood, it will lay eggs, and the cycle begins again.
Only the female aedes mosquito bites as it needs the protein in blood to develop its eggs.
The mosquito becomes infective approximately 7 days after it has bitten a person carrying the virus.

This is the extrinsic incubation period, during which time the virus replicates in the mosquito and reaches the salivary glands.
Peak biting is at dawn and dusk.
The average lifespan of an Aedes mosquito in Nature is 2 weeks
The mosquito can lay eggs about 3 times in its lifetime, and about 100 eggs are produced each time.
The eggs can lie dormant in dry conditions for up to about 9 months, after which they can hatch if exposed to favourable conditions, i.e. water and food

Why cant the Pengetua allocate some funds to repair these and to prevent the spread of denggi fever? Oh I forgot, the funds have been allocated to the beautification of the school.

As one of the P.I.B.G representative replied “sometimes in order to get our children to study better, it is good to have a beautiful surrounding / garden so that he can concentrate better” (this was his reply when asked about the rational of the funds spend). I have to admit that he is even better that our Malaysian Feng Shui master Lillian Too. Actually what he was implying was that we need to change our garden environment so that the Feng Shui changes and whatever our children studied will come out in the examination question. Way to go ………………………You are the MAN!!!!!!

P.I.B.G or was it Phantom Committee

It has been many months since the AGM and during the meeting which I have attended, the two key position ie Chairman and Vice Chairman was elected without the member being presence. In the dialogue, a PIBG representative said that the PIBG will organise another meeting among the parents and the Pengetua to discuss about the issues raised that day. If I remember correctly, the reason for another dialogue was that it was getting late that day and if we continue, we would have to stay back till midnight. A few parents didnt mind staying back but the P.I.B.G. insisted that it was late and so everyone agreed.

My question now is

• When is this meeting going to take place?
• When is the Pengetua free to meet the parents?
• When is the PIBG going to make this happen?
• Has there been any PIBG meeting held after this AGM to discuss the issues raised?
• Is the current P.I.B.G elected officers playing an active role in the school or are they just puppet committee members?
• Has anyone audited the RM90,000 expenses and who has approved the accounts?
• What has been done to the mosquitos issues in the school?
• Has any funds been given to the soccer team to participate in the "Dato Bandar" tournamnet?
• Why was the Teachers day not celebrated with appreciation given to the teachers? Go and ask your children how this day turned out.
• What happen to the shelter that was supposed to be build to provide shade during assembly?
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Can someone please come up with an answer to the above. P.I.B.G please look into this matter before you be known as Phantom Ibu Bapa dan Guru Guru.

Sekolah Menengah Bandar Utama 4 - The STORY

Dear Parents and Students,

This website is created to serve as a mean to get messages across to the Pengetua of SMKBU4. It is NOT intented to be use to attack or be-little any one. Students who are aware of this website please let your parents know about it.

History

SMKBUD (4) is the fourth government school in the Bandar Utama area, Petaling Jays, Selangor. It is adjacent to the townships of Mutiara Damansara, Bandar Utama and Taman Tun and a few other small townships connected to the three major townships.

The school started in 1.12.2001, with only 132 students of Form 1 and Remove. As of 2007, the student's enrolment is around 1,300 students. As of 2006, its first SPM test was taken by four classes of Form Five students. The first school Headmistress was Liu Ling Ling (above picture right) a woman who portrayed liberal connections with other schools, including private schools like Sri KDU.

The school owes its success to Puan Liu Ling Ling who through her hard work and the support of the teachers have established the school to be well known in the state of Selangor. Success such as the debating team, swimming team and even the cheer leaders’ team has made the school to be the envy of other surrounding schools. The school is full of talents as witnessed through their "Bakat Malam" concert that is held every year.

Through the PIBG the school has a ideal environment whereby parents work closely with the teachers to improve the education standard of the school. Fund raising is fully supported by all parents in ensuring the school would have the extra funds to provide to the needs of the children.

2008 is the dawn of a new era with the arrival of a new and very "experienced" Pengetua. In the last PIBG meeting, many questions and issues were raised for the improvement of the school. However, due to the time factor and the fact that it was getting late in the evening, the PIBG meeting has to end at 7pm. As such, many parents were left with many unanswered questions on many issues. Due to this unforeseen event, this “blog” has been set up to allow other concern parents to properly and diplomatically present their issues to the Pengetua in the most appropriate manner.

All parents and students are invited to write in so that at the end of the day, the issues will be compiled and forwarded to her (the PENGETUA) to be resolved.

Updates

The school field is in a terrible mess as it's beginning to look like a pond. Apparently due to the rainy season, the drainage pipe has been clogged up and as such the school field look like a swampy land. On the sports day a few events had to be cancelled as the students were unable to run on the tracks. What a waste of all the efforts and practise the students have put in before the sports day.

Photos: Compliment from a ex-student who attended the sports day to cheer for his brother but sadly the event was cancelled due to the spoiled school field.



Note: The Flooded field which is left to shame during the Sports day. No efforts were taken to repair the field prior to the sports day, citing insufficient funds to do so.

The school pride itself for winning the MSSM Under 15 soccer tournamnet. A dedicated parent volunteered his services in coaching the students. No big announcement was made about this victory. By winning this championship, the school was invited to play in the "DATUK BANDAR" Cup. Feedback from the students is that the Pengetua is not responding possitive to this sport. It seem that the school lack the budget to sponsor the jerseys and the transportation. The estimated cost for participating in this invitation is estimated at RM6,500.

(see below - the school soccer team and the invitation letter from Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah Petaling Utama. Also included is a newspaper cutting on the importance of sports by Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye) - click onto the letter and news clip to see a bigger and readable version.

photos: compliments from a visiting ex-student Note the nice pondok and the fountain in the background.

REALITY

Over RM30,000 have been spend on the beautification of the school compound which was unnecessary. In the recent PIBG meeting, it was said that such efforts would benefit the students. What doesnt make sense here is that the amount spend would only enable 1.2% of the student population to enjoy the facilities. The "pondok duduk" and the fountain is of low priority as compared to the field which is now a breeding ground for the Aedes mosquito. For these dangerous mosquitoes, the school has provided the ultimate feeding ground, over 1,000 students and easily available from dawn to dusk. .

Both the above ie the repair of the field and the sponsorship of the soccer team requires some budget from the school. It seem that the school lack the funds while high expenses were put onto unnecessary item.

The school cheer team is under close scrunity by the Pengetua citing that the girls dress are too short and as such have set up new rules whereby the students must either wear long pants or stockings during perfromances. It was also strongly believed that during the sports day held on the 28th March, the two team that was at the bottom last was placed last not because of the performance but rather at the "so-called" sexy dance created. The sad part of this is that the girls trained so hard for this day only to be let down by the Pengtua old fashion way of thinking.
I dont see the school responding positive to sports. Can someone highlight on this?

Let all students and parents participate in this blog with the objective of creating the ideal school environment

Please write and express your views on the school matter. We need more parents to write in so that we can resolve all pending issues with the Pengetua.

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Do note that the intention of this "blog" is for the benefit of the students studying in SMKBU4. It is to allow parents to voice their dissatisfaction in the school and it's not intended to attack anyone personally.