Mathematics : 78%
BM Penulisan : 80%
BM Kefahaman : 63%
Agama Islam : 65% (euuwww, malu!)
The rest of the results are yet to be known. Well, he is just 7 years old, and it was just a monthly test, so I shrugged off the results. OK per...not like he is taking UPSR or whatever...
Wait a minute. Below the test results, there's a letter from school. So I read that letter, uninterestedly at first, but when I read through the whole letter, it felt like I had a heart attack. The letter is telling me that my otomen will be transfered to another class, as he did not pass the LINUS saringan test.
And I was like, wtf, LINUX ? Why in the world should a seven year old took a LINUX test ? Oh, for the ignoramus, LINUX is a UNIX-like operating system, which was developed thanks to the open source system. Difficulty level in LINUX ? Like cracking your heads against the wall -lah. That's how difficult Linux is. So why did my seven year old boy took a Linux test ?
Whoops...it's not Linux lohhhhh...it's Linus. Aiyyah...my eyes....
And what does Linus stands for ? It's the elegant Literasi & Numerasi test. Owh. But I still don't know head or tails about Linus. So I asked my best friend Mr G. When I typed LINUS, Mr G gave me 9,020,000 hits. The first page is mostly about Linus Torvalds, a Finnish software engineer, who is by the way, the very person who initiated the Linux kernel, and from which the Linux name in IT world was coined from.
But I persevered, and after a few pages, I stumbled across Linus program as introduced by Malaysian Ministry of Education, which kicks of in year 2010. Oh wow, it has just begun. I had also stumbled across some blogs, most of which are angry parents whose children was unlucky enough to not pass the Linus test, and be forced to join the rehab class. Oh yes, it's a rehab class for those kids who didn't pass the Linus test. In bahasa, it's the dreaded kelas pemulihan.
And again, I muttered some expletives. Kelas Pemulihan ? WTF ? My boy can read, spell and do simple maths, he is just in standard one, and it is just March for crying out loud, why should he enter kelas pemulihan ? And so I researched some more. Here's what I found about Linus.
Well, it is still not enough to pacify me. So I called ahkakbatik for some taxi cum nanny service (heh heh jangan marah, nanti ko pi US takde dah orang nak nyusahkan ko lagi!), and she was kind enough to oblige me. And so we went to the school. I was lucky enough that Hafiz's classroom teacher was in the Teacher's Lounge (damn, I made it sound so elegant, kan?), and armed with Hafiz's test results papers, I bombarded her with questions.
Puan Syahidah was kind enough to listen to my grumbles, and then when I took out the test papers, she kindly told me that the Linus test result did not come from the test papers that I brought. I froze. WTF ? Was there another test that I am not aware of ? Yes, she told me. There was a separate test for Linus, in which the student took the test, and the teachers keyed in the data (as collected from students' answer) to the computer, who analyzed the answers, and decided if the student pass the test and should join the mainstream class (meaning normal classes) or failed the Linus test, and should join the rehab classes.
And to console me, Puan Syahidah told me that there are even students with excellent test results who failed Linus test and be forced to join the rehab class. And there's another repeat test in June, in which if my boy pass the test, he can join the mainstream class. And if not, well...I hope that my boy will find his way out....
Sigh...






