“They should cease and desist from doing so,” Abdullah added, though he stressed that Malaysians should remain calm and not take any irrational measures to protest the caricatures.

I mean, she basically needed money to send them to a chinese vernacular school. However, in her situation, where money is scarce, shouldn’t she just consider sending them to a normal government school, which is free?

Indeed, anyone has to admit that such an action would be a logical one. But the real issue here isn’t the money, the donations, our education system or class differentiation. It is our freedom of choice. The mother is free to choose which school to send her child to and the public is free to choose whether or not to donate (a right that the blog post’s writer has exercised).