Article: Keep all civil servants out

S. Param
New Straits Times
04-02-2009
Keep all civil servants out
Byline: S. Param
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section
Type: Letter

I REFER to your report "Teachers' expertise needed in politics" (NST, March 30). I feel somewhat uncomfortable with the National Union of the Teaching Profession's support for a proposal to allow Group A teachers to take part in politics.

If civil servants from the teaching profession are allowed to take part in politics, this will open the floodgates for Group A civil servants from other categories to follow suit.
Although I concur with the views of NUTP secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng that teachers have a wealth of experience, knowledge and ideas that ...

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