Backwards, backwards.

Though the decision has been announced and said to be final since last week, people still talk about it. Yes, I am talking about our government deciding for Mathematics and Science to be in Bahasa Malaysia, rather than the English language.

The decisions definitely shocked the people of Malaysia. I'll tell you who are these people of Malaysia.

-- The teachers that have been working so hard to cope with the English language in workshops and retaking their training exams in which if they failed - those who actually make an effort and not just sit back wailing and waiting in the government to make life easier for them.

-- The people that worked together and came up with the LCDs and programmed softwares to make English learning less tough.

-- Parents that relentlessly try helping their children, either by coaching them or sending them for expensive tuition classes despite the economic downturn as they have no choice because the school teachers may not be as resourceful.

-- And the most affected, the students. Imagine you've been trying, and finally, you did it. You managed to adjust to the system. Then, they strip everything off you, leaving you to start again.


And we all thought our children had hopes of doing better if they were to be sent abroad to study as their English would have been sharpened to a certain degree. How far can they go with BM? You talk about moving forward as a country, having the dreams of one day having to compete with countries like America, United Kingdom, Singapore. Well, I just don't see this particular move to be in consistent with that.

Yes, Bahasa Malaysia is to be protected and cherished as our national language. But doing that at a cost of the future of the next generation? Doesn't make sense to me.

I also can't help pointing out the fact that those higher in the royal hierarchy send their children abroad to the boarding schools there. Why? Obviously they do not trust our very own education system. So its alright for them to move forward and leave the other people behind? Their people behind?

Like I said in one of the previous post, its not the children that can't cope with English. Its the teachers. Children have young minds. They can be shaped. If the teachers can't or rather, would not try and help the people of tomorrow, why should the children be victims? Yes, there are some teachers who has genuinely tried. And I salute them for their initiative.

So they say, this move is somewhat catered for the people of rural areas. Then if I may highlight the obvious, the kampung people will and always remain kampung people.

Like Tun Dr Mahathir said, "Seems to me like the Government is not listening to the voice of the people'"

He recently published a poll on his blog having people to vote, and 86324 out of 100154 people voted that they did not agree with the government's decision. That's 86%.

What I think is that the government should collect votes from the students. Give them voices. After all, its them that is studying and will be taking the crucial exams. And the government's decision would affect their performances indefinitely.

So here we are, folks. Back to square one. More specific, backwards.