One of the staff told us that the principal and teachers who received the offer to crossover sabotaged us by purposely not teaching the students. Instead they let them play and run around the shop whilst they watch Hindi VCD movies in the other room. If they were not doing this, they would be hooking on their mobiles trying to influence parents to join their new school. Students reported that they were not given any worksheets to work on even though it has been photostatted one week earlier.
The transport operator also played their part by purposely squeezing students into small vans and reaching the center ½ - ¾ hours late to upset parents. Parents who were very upset withdrew their child from the school. Some were reported joining the new school set up by the operator. What dirty tactics! They are not even honest and brave enough to inform about their new venture. Instead they took our students by the hordes into their new premises together with our teachers to impress our students. They let our students to tour their school and inform them that all their teachers will no more be in Hijrah Kindergarten but at the new school. Students were told to inform parents to send them to the new school as Hijrah Kindergarten will be closing down. Amazing!
So when the students arrived late, the teacher not teaching, money got stolen the management got all the blame. The media only knows how to put salt on our wounds. When informed about this, they are not interested. Instead, they explode the picture of a parent who “claims” that the school owes her $3,000. She does not even have to provide documentary proof of her claim. Perhaps the BH reporter sees this as a good opportunity to blow out our weaknesses. Till this date, we are still awaiting for the parent to clarify her claim,
The media is not even sympathetic towards all our troubles and our relentless effort to accommodate all our CCK students at the new premise, after our previous landlord sold off their properties late last year, without giving ample notice to relocate. The media are not even interested to know how responsible we are towards our commitment towards the child’s continuing education. They only know how to expose thus, “Hijrah has been operating without a license since January 2007, Hijrah boss went bust and owe CPF monies” Those were things of the past, and not related to the new managment at all! They never even mention the troubles we went through making appeals after appeals to our MP’s to obtain the Temporary Permit from URA for our present premise so that all our students will not be dislocated.
The transport operator also played their part by purposely squeezing students into small vans and reaching the center ½ - ¾ hours late to upset parents. Parents who were very upset withdrew their child from the school. Some were reported joining the new school set up by the operator. What dirty tactics! They are not even honest and brave enough to inform about their new venture. Instead they took our students by the hordes into their new premises together with our teachers to impress our students. They let our students to tour their school and inform them that all their teachers will no more be in Hijrah Kindergarten but at the new school. Students were told to inform parents to send them to the new school as Hijrah Kindergarten will be closing down. Amazing!
So when the students arrived late, the teacher not teaching, money got stolen the management got all the blame. The media only knows how to put salt on our wounds. When informed about this, they are not interested. Instead, they explode the picture of a parent who “claims” that the school owes her $3,000. She does not even have to provide documentary proof of her claim. Perhaps the BH reporter sees this as a good opportunity to blow out our weaknesses. Till this date, we are still awaiting for the parent to clarify her claim,
The media is not even sympathetic towards all our troubles and our relentless effort to accommodate all our CCK students at the new premise, after our previous landlord sold off their properties late last year, without giving ample notice to relocate. The media are not even interested to know how responsible we are towards our commitment towards the child’s continuing education. They only know how to expose thus, “Hijrah has been operating without a license since January 2007, Hijrah boss went bust and owe CPF monies” Those were things of the past, and not related to the new managment at all! They never even mention the troubles we went through making appeals after appeals to our MP’s to obtain the Temporary Permit from URA for our present premise so that all our students will not be dislocated.
Alhamdulillah, finally through the appeal made by our Honourable Minister Mr Masagos Zainuddin, the appeal was granted by URA on 25 June 2007.
All these effort to ensure all our present students have a proper premise to continue their education was "marred" by the BH report " Hijrah operates the centre without a permit from URA since Janauary 2007.
Instead of commending us for being able to obtain the Temporary Permit from URA, all the BH reporter was interested in was “The landlord has issued us evacuation order to vacate the premises” Even though we had forwarded written reply, the reporter insisted on overturning our denial. Is this how the Malay media help the Malay business community to improve and survive? Is it a heavy price to pay to provide fair reporting? A little bit of endorsement with our satisfied customers would not hurt the paper’s image right? Instead, it will boost up their image. Nevertheless, throughout the BH report, there is not a single report that projects us in a positive light. Only a very minute portion of our reply was reproduced in BH reports. Even that too, they were misreported. Now we are not sure whether to co-operate with the BH reporter. We have to refer this misreporting matter to our solicitor for legal action.
