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Monday, October 20, 2014

Putrajaya, exams syndicate SUED by dyslexic schoolboy over UPSR leaks

Putrajaya, exams syndicate SUED by dyslexic schoolboy over UPSR leaks
In an unprecedented case, a 13-year-old boy with dyslexia is suing the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate and Putrajaya for negligence in the handling of the UPSR examination papers which had leaked last month, resulting in some 480,000 Year Six pupils having to resit four of the papers.
Ananda Krishnan Menon, who has the learning disability, said in his suit that he suffered from emotional and mental stress as a result of the examination fiasco.
The suit was filed was through his mother K. Managala Bhavani at the Kuala Lumpur High Court last week as Ananda is a minor.
Ananda, from Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Tun Dr Ismail (2) in federal capital city Kuala Lumpur, said he lacked the will to repeat the entire process of preparation for the resits of the public examination.
In his statement of claim, which was sighted by The Malaysian Insider, Ananda said he was more depressed than the other pupils over the resit because of his disability.
Dyslexia is a learning disorder characterised by difficulties with accurate word recognition, decoding and spelling.
Naming the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate and Putrajaya as defendants, Ananda said the government did not take action against the examinations syndicate members and their agents over the leaks.
"Instead, the government set up an independent committee to review its standard operating procedure in the conduct and management of public examinations," the schoolboy said in the legal suit.
He said the syndicate, its employees or their agents were negligent which resulted in the leak of the Science, English, Mathematics and Tamil papers.
He added the syndicate had failed to provide a safe system in ensuring there was no leak and failed to supervise its employees from the time the examination papers were sent to all schools nationwide.
He is seeking aggravated damages for the mess created by the syndicate.
The examinations syndicate is entrusted to prepare and print question papers for all public examinations as these documents are classified under the Official Secrets Act before the examinations start.
The UPSR examination was held between September 9 and 11, but due to the leaks, pupils were told to resit the Science, English, Mathematics and Tamil Language papers.
On September 30, pupils sat again for the Science and the English language papers and on October 9, retook the Mathematics and Tamil language papers.
The leaks affected 473,175 pupils from 8,384 schools nationwide.
Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Gan Kong Meng on September 21 had said that the police had interviewed 30 people and investigation papers would be referred to the Attorney-General's Chambers to determine if there were sufficient grounds to charge those detained under Section 8 (1) of the Official Secrets Act 1972 for possession of official secrets and communicating such information to others.
Police had recorded statements from eight officers from the syndicate, 19 teachers, an officer from the Education Ministry, a journalist and an engineer.
In the process, 14 people were detained but later freed on police bail.
However, none have so far been charged with any offence.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also Education Minister, had apologised to the pupils and their parents over the fiasco.
He had also announced on September 12 that syndicate director Dr Na’imah Ishak and deputy director (operations) Dr Wan Ilias Wan Salleh had been suspended until investigations were concluded.
However, eight days later, ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Dr Madinah Mohamad clarified that Na'imah and Wan Ilias were not suspended but merely reassigned to other duties, saying "they are not being punished".
News of the examination leaks had irked the Parent Action Group for Education (Page) which claimed that such incidents had happened in the past but nothing was done about it.
Page chairman Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim had said that the leak and postponement of the papers were "really bad news".
"Every year, you hear of this happening. But the conditions set for the examination syndicate to endorse that a paper has been leaked is very stringent."
"So because of that, people do it over and over again as they realise they can get away with it," Noor Azimah had said.
Calling the leak fiasco "shameful", Noor Azimah had said that tuition centres were partly to blame as there was a competition to make their respective centres looked good.
"This is a marketing ploy by tuition centres. You're giving a false impression to the child that he or she cannot do it without knowing the questions beforehand," she had said, adding that the ministry must re-examine the entire examination procedures.
She also said that as a deterrent, the culprits must be severely punished.
Last year, a police report was lodged after questions from the Mathematics and Additional Mathematics papers in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia were allegedly leaked in a seminar, she had said.
But police later rubbished the claims, saying the questions were only forecast ones. –TMI

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