Stupid Government
The truth is, I have never been so blatantly upfront about how I feel towards the bunch of chickens up there who call themselves the government.
But looky, here, after a few weeks of super 'intellectual' sounding but wholly pointless discussions of 'whether we should continue to teach Science and Maths in English or not', they come up with the 'Ok let's reverse the whole policy' decision, and include in a so-called comfort clause, 'but we will increase contact hours for English.
The vital questions: Compulsory Pass for SPM? No comment, not yet, later only decide.
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I don't know about you, but as far as I know, where problems arise, you find a way to resolve the problem. Which means that, in the first place, the reason why the policy of 'let's teach Maths and Science in English' came up, was because we have successfully churned out a generation of half-past six idiots who have no inkling about the importance of grammar, and proper writing skills, who pass their exams anyway, get their straight As anyway, and then proceed to wail and cry when the government denies them golden opportunities to study Medicine on a JPA ticket.
So that was the problem. And they came up with a solution. The solution was to teach the two very important subjects of Maths and Science in English.
A few years later, we realize, aiyak, problem masih ada. So… if you review the success of a solution in action, and you realize the problem is not resolved, what do you do?
In problem solving processes, UNCLE/AUNTY dalam kerajaan Malaysia, my lecturer tells me, that you need to think of improvements to the solution. Or ANOTHER SOLUTION.
Not freaking reversal to condition A, which was the root of the problem in the first place.
And no, 'extra contact hours' will not resolve the issue, you dungu-dungu dalam kerajaan Malaysia.
Press conference for what? Waste time only. Gone gone gone.
July 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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July 8th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I never fully appreciated the impact of an impartial education system which can only flourish without political influences until SG’s PM brought it to my attention today:
“Political leadership to drive the process, political leadership to put heavy emphasis on education nationally, and political leadership to shield the education system from politics, so that teachers can do what they need to do and not have their work disrupted or confused or led astray by extraneous political considerations which are educationally unsound,” said PM Lee.
How true! little wonder their education system is something to be emulated
July 8th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Yeah, utter morons playing musical chairs again with our kids.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
wah… very brave title u have there… even more brave words…
anyway, the malaysian education has already collapsed. even if they actually come up with a very good solution, i doubt the super efficient boleh style implementation will reap good results.
i have reach a stage whereby i think… those who wants to go on a self destruction mode, let them be.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Don’t forget Brudder Anwar too.
Good for Lim Kit Siang, though…
July 9th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I have tossed up my hands in resignation already. But the thing is, the present situation was never tenable. They don’t have proper lecturers or teachers who can teach in English, so you get a bunch of poor students – whose English was never great to begin with – struggling to understand what was being taught. However, rather than throw in the towel, the gomen should’ve aggressively beefed up the capabilities of their teachers. Instead, they choose to crawl back to their tempurung, dragging the hapless rakyat with them. Lookee here, if you want to shoot yourself, don’t take us with you, right??
Looks like the proficiency of the next gen in English all depends on the parents now. cannot rely on schools anymorelah…
July 9th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
When I saw today’s headlines on this, I didn’t bother reading on… A very predictable solution by them. Sigh!!
July 14th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I dun think we will be able to see the 2020 this country has “promised with determination” to achieve.
Hmmm, i suggest International Schools for the future generation??
that’ll do.. Or, Homeschool doing their O levels with a private tutor??
Anything is better than going back to government school or a private school teaching our spm syllabus.
take O levels better still, got HIGHER chance of getting an application to an international college, university and thus, a better opportunity to contributing labor in foreign countries.