Honestly I felt that the step of reverting back to Bahasa Malaysia is not a wise decission done by the cabinet and the minister of education himself.
I'm not in a state of opposing the decission of our governmernt but to express my feelings on the action done as a student of the second batch that undergoes the transition plan done by Dr. M or known as Che Det.
In year 2002 when the government announced that all the teaching of Science and Mathematics will be done in English, I felt reluctant about it since I'm from a non-eglish-speaking-school(Sekolah Kebangsaan Yacob Latif) before entering a Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Bintang Utara where most of the students uses English as their second language after their mother tounge.
After undergoing the plan for five years, I felt that I'm lucky to be born in a right year since Science and Mathematics were taught in English because it has improved my command in English tremendously.
Besides it also transformed me from an introvert to an extrovert and more outspoken person.
When I entered university, I found it to be easier for me to learn compare to my seniors that studied their 'Sains dan Matematik' in Bahasa Malaysia.
I had even discussed this with my fellow friends from the rural areas of Sabah during my national service in Tawau, they supported the idea of Che Det because they said that this enable them to improve their ability to converse in that particular language and set a platform for them to prepare themselves before entering tertiary studies where most of the references are bountily in the language once became our lingua franca before independance.
If the natives of Sabah like Kadazan-Dusun, Suluk and Bajau where they are away from the norm of using the language felt the importance of the language as an instruction language for these two subjects, why citizens of Penisular Malaysia need to complain about when we are living at a region blessed with plenty of resources of knowing the language better.
If the government wants to revert it back to our national lingua franca, I think that we should wait for a few years to see the effectiveness of PPSMI. At least see the product of the first batch graduating from university and secured their jobs. In conclusion, politicians should not use education as a tool to please the RAKYAT to gain their votes.
Listen to the opinion of individuals that are professionals in the field of Science and Mathematics not the professionals in linguistic.
I hope that the decission done by our government is right and it will not ruined the future of our nation.
J.Z.Wong
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