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Fauziah Mat, 48, said it was rather difficult to said. wore find a size black seven. school shoes for her son who
“I should have done the shopping earlier but was quite busy with work. We will probably come again to get a second pair of black school shoes.
“We drove all the way from Teluk Bahang to town to get the school supplies,” she said, adding that her son would enrol in Form One next year.
State Education Department director Mohd Jamil Mohamed reiterated that schoolchildren could still wear black or white footwear until 2021.
“The schools cannot decide unless all the parents (and guardians) agree,” he said.
In October, the Education Ministry announced that the black shoe ruling for government schools would be fully enforced in 2021, meaning that all students in government schools would still be allowed to wear white shoes until the end of 2020.