Can you believe this – the Principal got carried away that he segregated the boys and girls in the school. The principal, Muhammad Amir Y.M. Shariff, must be a nut and the earlier the Minister Hishammudin sends him for a mental check, the better it would be for the whole population which might get carried away, and maybe, in euphoria, and because being carried away is a norm, may carry away the Minister and all the relevant authorities. What a headline it would be, “Minister and officials carried away by so and so, because so and so was carried away. How befitting.

Menteri Mesar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan is also being carried away by the statement such segregation was the result of indiscipline among the students. Does he realise being carried away can happen when a person is beside oneself and in panic and surely his choice of words does not convey the real reason.

What a way to punish boys who were undisciplined, segregate them. Is it implied all the boys in the school are undisciplined and if so, this speaks very badly for the Principal Muhammad Amir Y.M. Shariff. What did the girls do, encourage the boys to be undisciplined, as I see they are also being disciplined as well. Come on Hish get to the bottom of this and let the people know.
Thank God the Menteri Besar is aware segregation here deviates from the policies set by the Education Ministry. But his hope that this may not happen in any school is condescending and patronising. Don’t you think it is high time you tell every Principal, enough is enough, any repetition will be serious. You can hope until the cows come home, but another moron is going to repeat this. Hish are you taking any action against the Principal because this being carried away nonsense is a bit frivolous and unacceptable.

Do the parents in that school, still want the Parent Teacher Association under Murad Katani, to be in a state of being carried away. Bad enough the Principal, acted while being carried away, but the PTA.

The icing in the cake is that a group of girls agreed to the segregation, Hish please transfer them to an all girls school. Perhaps they are being trained to live in isolated no man place. Or perhaps they should be councilled to the effect they will be in a mixed gender situation now or later and what better way than to start at school.

Please read the Star paper report:

Principal ‘got carried away’

SEREMBAN: The principal of a co-ed school here who introduced a gender segregation system got carried away in efforts to discipline his charges, said Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.

Mohamad, who holds the state education portfolio, said he was told that the principal felt that the boys at SMK Seremban Jaya were overly mischievous and the only way to discipline them was to keep them away from the girls.

“But it is wrong to deviate from policies set by the Education Ministry for a co-ed school. I hope this will never happen in any school in this state,” he said.

Mohamad had on Wednesday directed the state Education Department to investigate claims that the school practised segregation.

Checks conducted by the state director Abdullah Mohamad revealed that the boys and girls were studying in separate classes. They were also not allowed to sit at the same tables when eating in the canteen.

Abdullah was dumbfounded when told that the classrooms were also located in different blocks and that the students were to use only designated walkways.

They were also told that disciplinary action would be taken against those who breached the new ruling, which came into force on the first day of the new school term this year.

The principal, Muhammad Amir Y.M. Shariff, is away performing a pilgrimage in Mecca. He is scheduled to be back on Monday.

It is also understood that Muhammad Amir got the school’s parent-teacher association’s consent to introduce the policy. PTA chairman Murad Katani could not be reached for comment despite repeated attempts.

It is learnt that school senior assistant Baharuddin Aziz apologised to the students at yesterday morning’s assembly for the move to introduce the policy.

He said all male and female students who were in the same class in Form Four last year would now continue to study together in Form Five.

Those in Form Four would also be mixed based on their 2007 school examination results.

The two-session school has some 1,600 students.

“I am happy because I get to study with my former classmates,” said a Form Five student.

However, a group of girls met after school said they did not mind being segregated.

“We prefer to have an all-girl class as the male students can at times get too loud,” said one.