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PETALING JAYA: Rural students are the biggest losers from the government’s decision to stop the teaching of science and mathematics in English, according to the Parents Action Group for Education (PAGE).
PAGE chairperson Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim said rural students, especially Malays, would end up speaking only Malay because they would have no context in which to apply English.
She questioned the wisdom of the decision, saying Malaysia was going against the tide when “countries all over the world are pushing for English”. She said she was now convinced that Barisan Nasional was not the right party to govern the nation.
She was commenting on Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s latest statement on the scrapping of PPSMI (the Malay abbreviation for the Teaching of Science and Mathematics in English). Muhyiddin, who is the Education Education, said today that the decision was final.
“Through PPSMI, the kids would have had an opportunity to practice the language,” Noor Azimah said.
Muhyiddin said the government would go ahead next year with its MBMMBI (Upholding the Malay Language and Strengthening the English Language) policy, which would cover a “soft landing” programme for students currently studying science and mathematics in English.
He derided PAGE and other supporters of PPSMI for “being out of touch”, saying the decision to abolish the programme had been made in 2009.
Noor Azimah retorted that PAGE had been fighting to keep PPSMI in the system for “the last three years”.
“I think he is out of touch,” she said.
She also said, without elaborating, that PAGE would “support” students hit by the policy change, especially those currently in Primary 3 and Secondary 3.
“They have the right to finish science and mathematics in English under the soft landing.”
Test scores
Noor Azimah claimed that next year’s MBMMBI syllabus was not new, but a direct translation of the current PPSMI texts.
In an earlier statement, PAGE said national test scores improved following the introduction of the PPSMI in 2003.
Citing the Millenium Development Goals 2010 report, it said both rural and urban students had benefited from PPSMI.
“They (rural students) all showed improvements in English, no reduction in Bahasa Malaysia, and improvements in Science and Mathematics in the last few years,” it said.
Through an online petition initiated by PAGE, more than 100,000 parents have protested against the scrapping of PPSMI.
2 comments:
Add those 100,000 multiplied by say two voting family members per household to the 800,000 new voters registered and we should have about 1 million votes against Umno.
The MOE should return to graze the pasture of the National Feedlot Corporation.
Be very convinced that he has just finished off your children's future.
Note that in the past one week alone, all moves by him and those behind him have pointed towards more malaynification. They have become more chauvinistic.
This means they know they are going to win the next general elections. And that is only possible because they are going to cheat at the polls.
None of their reasons including the letter today in the Sun mocks your intelligence; it is all just denialism and out of reality.
Those jokers know nuts about the breadth and depth of real knowledge out there.
As for what your children will be missing out on scientific and math knowledge, ask me. I am a world tracker of those fields.
I also know which countries are racing to learn, command and use english for the world's best science and maths knowledge.
Just ask yourselves - how many of the schoolchidren could even answer correctly one question of the last international math olympiad competition that was held in UM. You don't want to know the answer nor Malaysia's crap rankings in all subjects.
Don't let their brand of longkang politics finish off the future of our young. Give your children a better world. End the hypocrisy, chicanery, stupidity and racist chauvinism.
Make your vote count.
I'm done with this place.
Add those 100,000 multiplied by say two voting family members per household to the 800,000 new voters registered and we should have about 1 million votes against Umno.
The MOE should return to graze the pasture of the National Feedlot Corporation.
Be very convinced that he has just finished off your children's future.
Note that in the past one week alone, all moves by him and those behind him have pointed towards more malaynification. They have become more chauvinistic.
This means they know they are going to win the next general elections. And that is only possible because they are going to cheat at the polls.
None of their reasons including the letter today in the Sun mocks your intelligence; it is all just denialism and out of reality.
Those jokers know nuts about the breadth and depth of real knowledge out there.
As for what your children will be missing out on scientific and math knowledge, ask me. I am a world tracker of those fields.
I also know which countries are racing to learn, command and use english for the world's best science and maths knowledge.
Just ask yourselves - how many of the schoolchidren could even answer correctly one question of the last international math olympiad competition that was held in UM. You don't want to know the answer nor Malaysia's crap rankings in all subjects.
Don't let their brand of longkang politics finish off the future of our young. Give your children a better world. End the hypocrisy, chicanery, stupidity and racist chauvinism.
Make your vote count.
I'm done with this place.
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