Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and presidential hopeful, says it plain.
However, for the past year, nothing much went to, let alone through, our public schools.
At least half of B40 students the dominant segment had a Covid-19 enforced gap year.
How much of their future’s compromised, only time will tell.
Our ministry technocrats will likely hide their incompetency using the adjusted bell curve, to insist all is well; however it’s the most vulnerable who pay the price.
While schools worldwide were challenged, and everyone lost a degree of quality by their adjustments, here in Malaysia where public schools in urban poor and rural localities already suffer due to a steady divide growth, it was calamitous.