Teachers will continue with the demonstration to demand the scrapping of the Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS, School-based Assessment) despite Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's claim that the ministry is studying the matter.

 

Organiser Mohd Nor Izzat Mohd Johar said that this is because Muhyiddin's statement was merely to “placate” teachers and “divert attention” from the serious issue of education.

“I am embarrassed that the education minister and the ministry is twisting facts on education,” he said scathingly.

In a statement today, he added that there is no point only studying the matter now when the problem has been long-standing, starting from the PBS roll-out three years ago.

“Should we now have a laboratory to study the PBS? If so, then will there be a pilot project? Will this pilot prove the system is not working?” he asked cynically.

“I stress that Himpunan 222 Mansuh PBS (Feb 22 Abolish PBS Rally) must continue until PBS is scrapped and it the uprising of teachers will be a landmark moment in the history of education in Malaysia,” he said.

 

Muhyiddin, who is also deputy prime minister yesterday said that the ministry is studying the complaints.

 

He said that pending the completion of the study in April, teachers will not have to input data into the problematic online system, but instead have to record the student assessments manually.

Teachers have long complained about poor planning involving in the PBS. Its failure could see the abolished Penilaian Menengah Rendah for Form Three students reintroduced .

They have submitted memoranda on the matter, while teachers within Umno have raised the matter in the Umno General Assembly debates session last year.