• Maths and Science in English scrapped
by Stanley, July 9, 2009
As a parent to a two year girl, and fingers crossed in about 3 months time to a baby boy, I’m devastated to hear that our BN government has reverted to Bahasa Malaysia for teaching of maths and science. My entire family too is sad about this news.
Rural malay students is the main reason to teach maths and science in BM. Politically, Barisan Nasional need these backward malays to hang on to power. It is no surprise then BN made the switch.
Maths and science resources and references are mostly in English. Try googling an algebra problem in Bahasa. That’s gonna be a headache for parents to aid their kids in learning. On top of searching for solutions, we need a scientific dictionary to translate it to/from Bahasa. That sucks.
Bahasa Malaysia won’t take you places. It is a useless language to achieve proficiency in. No matter how you slice it, English is the way to go forth.
Ministers, royalty and the rich Malays send their kids to oversea institutions or international schools locally. Whereas the man on the street have no choice but to bear with our education ministry’s shortsighted approach.
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I don’t want to be so rude and be racism. But isn’t they also reverted to YOUR native tongue language and not just in BM? Or, maybe you just read the hadlines huh?
So you want our country to be like Singapore just thinking about development and scrapping Locality (asian culture atleast)? You are really short-sighted. How Japan can reach their technological advance just with their native languages? Are you the one who always follow what people on internet are speaking without thinking of the truth? US and UK are facing the worst economic contraction now and you really think we should follow them?
You kind of a desperate parent who search on the internet for your child’s education. Try go out and find a bookstore around you rather than just simply typing weird question on Google. There’s abundance of book there. Multi-languages!
p/s: I don’t even mentions any race so no racism here.
— Malaysian, July 11th, 2009Understand that the anti-PPSMI main argument is that rural native-speaking students, who could barely speak a word of English, would be left trailing in learning M & S.
For Barisan though, reversing teaching M & S in English to BM is a policy of political gain. To benefit Barisan Nasional and their appeal to their core voters. Which no matter the amount of denial, is racism up BN’s sleeve. They don’t give a shit about the kids currently in school.
Racism is something we have to face with. We cannot just see no evil, speak no evil when what is there is so apparent for all to interpret. Call me racist but don’t call me a hypocrite. Until the day I see all races get equal opportunities in all sectors, I will speak up against racism. That is why I get riled up with BN’s recent flip flop in PPSMI which I deem is political motivated.
Short-sightedness is believing values and cultures can be preserved by limiting exposure to English.
Learning through textbooks is one thing. Being able to participate in active discussions, debates and exchanges to cultivate knowledge with people all over the world is another. Never before has is been so easy to do that.
— Stanley, July 16th, 2009