Two educators excluded from the WFH policy were neutral about it, but one – a high school teacher in Terengganu – pointed out that the education ministry should put more effort into online learning. The high school teacher said he commutes roughly 140km every day from his home to his school in rural Terengganu. “Most of the teachers here travel roughly 50km to 60km one way,” the 28-year-old said. The WFH policy should be more flexible and the private sector should be involved if the government is serious about saving fuel, he added. “Surely the ministries have figured out a way to make sure that learning can happen, even though it is conducted online,” he said. “We should be doing everything that we absolutely can to preserve our oil.” The other educator, a senior lecturer in her 40s at a public university in southern Malaysia, agreed. The education/higher education, health and home ministries are four ministries “commanding the highest percentage of civil service staff, yet we are excluded from the WFH arrangements”, she noted. “It …