"The aim has not changed, only the method"- Najib



It is considerably to a certain agreeable extent, a very sad day for Malaysian students. Bleak and dull days lie ahead of you Malaysian students, unless someone in the education department with at least half a brain actually realises how close they are coming to absolute anarchy and discord in terms of educational coherence and concision.


What you may ask, has pricked and irked my displeasure to such a degree that it garners a blog post dedicated all to itself?


Simply placed on a silver platter by the our education department, with sweet honeyed words for the public to enjoy, it is the recent decision to revert back to Bahasa Melayu as the medium of instruction for the subjects Math and Science which has gained a pass by the majority of the higher ups in our education system and spearheaded by our Malaysian leaders.




But what about the public? Dont we get our say in any of this? We are the very people which this decision matters the most to in determining whether we can obtain a good education and a comfortable life in the future, or drown in the deluge and rapid tides of language and comprehension that is the international scene.






Call me a anal idiot, but as a student who was among the first batch of students who went through the arduos yet enjoyable task of learning Math and Science in English, i feel it is indeed my social obligation to defend the PPSMI policy for all its worth.



Behind the facade of improving English proficiency lies without a doubt lies a whole myraid of setbacks and challanges that await this new education policy.

Firstly, how would recruiting 14,000 english teachers would solve the sad state of the English language in our country? Wouldnt it only serve to dilute even more the already noticebly tasteless and distilled talent pool of our English teachers in Malaysia?




Moreover, we are talking about fresh graduates, retired teachers and foreigners making up the 14000 here. Wouldnt the varying levels of the proficiecy in the command of English of these Educationalists only serve to further confuse our already very confused Malaysian minds?



As one parent cum school headmistress said in The Star newspapers, "we are moving backwards in implementing this policy".


Another thing which ticked the living hell out of me was the argument that there is a growing gap between the levels of secondary schools in the city and those in the rural area.


Bullocks. Evidently, that is bound to happen. But wait. Isnt this a good thing? Dosent this show that we (the city folk) are actually improving and progressing in terms of English education? That the rural schools cant keep up with our progress? Then why argue that this gap is bad and we need to close it by using Malay instead.

If we passify each and every progress situation like this by implementing a policy which hampers the growth of one party solely because the other cant keep up, then arent we just going to end up in a complacent -in limbo-neither-here-nor-there state for god only knows how long?




Hopefully im wrong, And this policy will be for the better after all. I dont see the government changing the policy after this for a long time to come.