The story about teachers teaching their students to cheat to excel in the UPSR examination shows how desperate some school heads are in pursuing a better image based on their students' stellar performance.

Wawasan 2020 is just 16 years away and yet our school children that should be moulded to become future leaders of tomorrow are trained early to cheat to pass exams so that the school will get good records, and the principals and staff will get the accolade and recognition for their hard work. With all the malaise surrounding our school - the bullying, killings, teen prostitution, drug abuse and a general decline of moral values - we seem to be heading south as far as the education system is concerned.

Hopefully, this is an isolated case and the malaise does not spread to other schools that want to produce instant Einsteins through dubious mean, I really feel sorry for the school children who are brainwashed by the teachers concerned only with producing great results.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to excelling in examinations. For our country to progress further, the ministry should revamp its education policy to produce thinkers and inventors rather than churning out straighs A students through dubious means. If the same thing had happen in other countries, the education minister would have resigned to take full responsibility for the fiasco, but I can bet that finger pointing will be the order for the day here - and the minions will be sacrificed at the altar to appease the public.

How are we going to produce Nobel laureates by 2020 when we are plagiarising other people's work or ask some eminent persons to write our theses.

Only in Bolehland that you see all the mediocre students and workforce become rich and famous not through hard work and perseverance but by cheating and lying, and they seem to start young. What type of teachers are we producing today, who can cheat the education system for their own selfish needs?