We often hear about the failures of our education system, that it is broken and no matter what we say and do to push for improvements, it often falls on deaf ears. And that there is really no willpower to fix the root cause of the problem because it is too difficult. It also poses a political challenge because 420,000 teachers are an assured fixed deposit vote bank. Perhaps that presumption could just be an excuse because the last general election (GE14) proved otherwise. But

What an eventful week it has been — and a most unusual one at that. And it had nothing to do with Covid-19. Amid the opening and closing of schools, school clusters and infected school children, there was a cry from female students — and rightly so — for a safer school environment. It began with menstruation spot checks by female teachers, usually led by the religious ones, during the month of Ramadan to confirm that a student is genuinely menstruating and therefore exempt fr