As the API reading passed the 200 mark today, SUPP Woman Chief, Kho Teck Wan said she is\u00a0concern to hear that there will be no change on the UPSR examination schedules in Sarawak even if the haze condition persisted until next week.<\/p>\n
Although UPSR candidates will be advised to put on face mask, she said, the reading of 200 and above is classified as very unhealthy. According to the standard operating procedures provided by the Ministry of Education, school in haze effected area should be closed immediately should the API reading exceeded 200.<\/p>\n
She was\u00a0concerned over the announcement made by the Ministry of Education to continue the UPSR exam should the API reading worsen and understood that\u00a0the tremendous potential cost and efforts that the ministry may incurred should the national exam be rescheduled. However, extra precautionary efforts should be made and shouldn\u2019t limit to providing a face mask.<\/p>\n
“Who should be responsible for the possible severe health problem or even loss of life should it happened during the exam due to the very unhealthy level of air pollution?\u00a0I would also like to inquire if the face masks distributed to Sarawak schools today are respirators that will protect wearer from harmful dust.\u00a0Anak Sarawak are equally precious as any child in Malaysia, and I sincerely urge the Ministry of Education to plan rigorously should UPSR exam be carried out when API exceeds 200. I hope the Ministry make their decisions based on protecting the school children\u2019s safely as their number one priority”she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the API reading passed the 200 mark today, SUPP Woman Chief, Kho Teck Wan said she is\u00a0concern to hear that there will be no change on the UPSR examination schedules in Sarawak even if the haze condition persisted until next week. Although UPSR candidates will be advised to put on face mask, she said, the reading of 200 and above is classified as very unhealthy. According to the standard operating procedures provided by the Ministry of Education, school in haze effected area should be closed immediately should the APIRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24857,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions\/24857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}