PARLIAMENT | Giving parents the option to enrol their six-year-old children into Year One would create unfair opportunity and stigma among students, according to Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman (Muda-Muar).

Urging Putrajaya to rethink its new education plan, he said the option would mostly benefit children coming from well-to-do backgrounds - who can afford proper pre-school education to prepare them for the Education Ministry's planned enrolment tests...