School on a Hill?

I was thinking of the famous Beetles song “Fool on a Hill” but have no inspiration to write any verse to suit a change of theme.

But this sorry school is no laughing matter. Just imagine spending RM48m on a brand new school and within 2 years it has become a dangerous building.

It is also surprising that the consultant decided to use gravity feed for the water supply to a school which houses 300 students.

For the RM48m project it should have included a budget for a proper water pump driven by electric motors rather than the crude gravity system that has proved unreliable.

Whom can we hold responsible for such incompetence?
I wonder what type of foundations were laid and how is the drainage surrounding the school? Maybe there was no fool on the hill but someone who got very wealthy instead.

At this rate, our friends in East Malaysia will think that we are delaying their progress to a modern society.

Building schools seems take on the nature of rocket science only in Malaysia. Maybe we should include in the MGBoR categories for the following:

Schools that:

1. collapsed the fastest after completion

2. deemed unfit soonest after occupancy

3. most expensive per built-up area

4. worst designed layout

Any other category you want to include?

Photo: http://www.hbp.usm.my/conservation/imagesJPG/images10/stmiciph.jpg ( my Alma Mater is almost 100 years old)