Your call.

from http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/2009/07/english-out-bm-in-for-science.html

The announcement was made today.

Beginning 2012, students in Year One and Year Four in primary schools, and Form One and Form Four in secondary schools, will learn Math and Science in Bahasa Malaysia.

The reason?

"Only 19.2% of secondary teachers and 9.96% of primary teachers were sufficiently proficient in English," he said, explaining the Government's decision to revert to the old system.

Seems silly isn't it? The patient has a rotting arm, and the Government's solution to the problem is to chop off the head.

While there is certainly some nationalistic pride behind having a national language capable of teaching science and math (this is debatable), it probably isn't in the best interest of the students who will wind up having to re-learn everything in English anyways once they start tertiary education, at least for those who aim to pursue those subjects. And for those that have no ambitions to study beyond a secondary education, having so little proficiency in English is not going to be much help in the "Real World" (TM) either.

With English having a prominent role in the schools, it was a step in the right direction, painful as it was. Come 2012, the education system is going to gostan. Do you see what i did there?

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I am in total support of what this fellow blogger says. Few years back , the government was in a frenzy to train teachers and re-introduce Math and Science in English again.
Workshops, courses , programmes , systems , etc etc were put into action and we were quite pleased as it meant that Malaysians won't be sesated in the world as they would have a basis of science/ math in english.
Hablur??? what's that? It's crystal . Zarah is Atom .
As the blogger mentioned, there is a sense of nationalistic pride in teaching Math/Science( M/S) in Bahasa Malaysia. But what use is it , if we are to be confused with terms in English ? Are we going to be big-headed that we have "retained" our use of BM in teaching subjects that most of the world learns in standard language - English?

We can see that the standard of the English language in Malaysia , is not up to scratch.I think Miss Shyamala might agree to that , she being a teacher who loves the English language very much . Even our neighbours which split in 1963 , Singapore, have progressed by leaps and bounds , compared to us , who are complacently limping along , crippled by our various ailments and Achille's Heels .

Phrases like, " borrow me money" , " I drop and scratch my arm" , " open the light" , are less than rare in everyday life. Even if one may ace a written paper, they stumble and struggle with speaking English.

So It's like typing out a whole bad-ass long essay then backspacing word by word and typing it again. GOSTANNNNN.

So , very nicely said just now.

"Seems silly isn't it? The patient has a rotting arm, and the Government's solution to the problem is to chop off the head."

Good night .

See , this news overshadows what I was gonna post ! the rubber object found 2 days in a row in our class!