malaysiakini on EDUCATION ~ Back to SQUARE 1?

In a major U-turn before he retired, TDM ordered all schools to teach Maths and Science in the English language as everyone realised that the standard of English in Malaysia had fallen to abysmal lows.
It was one good thing he did before retiring 5 years ago and one can feel that more ordinary folks now accept that more can be done to improve the standard of English, especially among young adults.
I am not sure if anyone has done a study of the Malaysian education during the past 25 years but many attribute many problems of nation-building to the day that Bahasa Malaya(at the time) was used as the medium of instruction and English became just an exam paper.
I am not against BM but it should be not too difficult to realise that when BM became the Medium of Instruction(or MOI), it was the beginning of moves that widened the gap between private schools, vernacular schools and national-type schools.
Today some vernacular schools have become so influential that according to this malaysiakini article Switch or we strike, warns education group some schools are not happy with the switch back to English.
The Ministry of Education is meeting all the interest groups to make a decision on the English experiment and there will be those who oppose a switch-back as results are promising in some schools.
Let us hope that the department will make a decision that is in the best interests of our children's future. For many years, education has been a political football and our children have suffered.

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