The verb “to throw”, and its local language equivalents, are illustrated in the book in question by a young boy, clearly enjoying himself, throwing a rock at a stray dog.
Initially picked up by the Fan Club Kakimotong Facebook page and now making headlines in the mainstream media, one ill-advised attempt to impart knowledge to young children has suddenly become news.
The verb “to throw”, and its local language equivalents, are illustrated in the book in question by a young boy, clearly enjoying himself, throwing a rock at a stray dog.
Reports World of Buzz:
The mistreatment of animals in Malaysia is a real problem. People are going around hitting, kicking and torturing stray and pet animals, who knows what for.
But, this problem can be curbed when we start teaching people from a young age that hurting animals is BAD, and unfortunately, it is now slightly more understandable as to why we’ve failed to do that.
On the Fan Club Kakimotong Facebook page someone wrote:
Erm, how is this possible? Even in education books, they are teaching things that shouldn’t be taught. How is it that this sentence was approved for school children, as children nowadays will believe that throwing rocks at dogs isn’t wrong because it’s written in the book.
The book’s publisher isn’t called out, but no doubt the social media frenzy will have the publisher reviewing the title in the near future.
Read more at World of Buzz.
