4. But some parents and teachers had also conducted a survey and the majority are again in favour of English. A petition to the Prime Minister by parents and teachers was copied to me and they were in favour of retaining English. At least one senior non-Malay politician had left a Barisan Nasional component party and joined the opposition because of the switch back to Malay, Tamil and Chinese. He claimed that he could not afford to send his grandchildren abroad as some who advocate Malay as the medium had been doing.1. The Government has decided that the teaching of science and mathematics would revert to Malay in the Government school, with Chinese in Chinese schools and Tamil in Tamil schools. How this is going to help integrate Malaysians I do not know.
2. Since then I had conducted a poll on my blog. The result is 84 per cent want to retain English as the language medium for these subjects.
3. Admittedly the poll was conducted in the English language and English language speakers might be biased in favour of English.
5. I meet a lot of people at the various forums I am invited to speak. During the usual post-meeting tea most of the participants who got to talk with me, mostly Malays regretted the Government's decision to use Malay for Science and Mathematics.
6. The reason that has been given is that Malays, particularly kampung Malays just could not do well when the two subjects were taught in English. If we follow this kind of argument we should also stop trying to get Malays to do business because they really cannot do well in that field. They are best at working as wage-earners, particularly in Government service. We should encourage them not to try to go into business.
7. If we do this then the current anger over the New Economic Policy on the part of the non-Malays would be reduced.
8. Similarly with learning English. Malays just cannot learn and speak English. We should stop teaching it so that the language would not drag down the Malays in their exams. We should see better results.
9. Malays do best at paddy planting and fishing with rods and net. They should be taught to do this, probably with new technology.
10. By switching back to Malay, we can expect them to vote for the Government party at the next election. Similarly we can expect at least some who believe their children's future has been blighted by this decision to think again about voting for the BN.
11. I cannot read Chinese but Utusan Malaysia kindly translated the editorial in the Sin Chew Jit Poh. The editorial basically said that giving "Ang Pow" would not win over the voters.
Sokong sangat2 kata Dr M. Kalau Melayu tak boleh nak buat sume bende ni, lebih baik jangan tolong melayu dalam apa2 pun. Melayu takkan berubah. Sampai akhir zaman pun macam ni. Selagi melayu berkuasa, macam ni la jawabnya. Kene dengan penangan bila kaum lain memerintah Malaysia, melayu hilang kuasa, baru la sibuk nak perjuang bangsa, ketika itu nasi pun da jadi bubur. Tgk saja singapore, pulau tergadai dek tertipu igtkan melayu masih berkuasa sebab presiden yusof ishak, bahasa melayu dijadikan bahasa kebangsaan, pastu tak nampak pula belang pemimpin nak bela nasib melayu bahasa pembelajaran pula kesemuanya BI, baru melayu kat situ nak blajar bersaing, terkial2 baru nak naik kejar kaum lain.
Kaum lain berada 1000 langkah dihadapan, kita masih lagi terkial2 dengan langkah pertama. Tapi masih lagi ada guru yang menentang PPSMI (yang aku assume semuanya cikgu agama dan BM yang memang tak da kene mengena dengan PPSMI). mungkin cikgu ni memang tak nak anak murid dia berjaya kot. Die lebih suka anak murid terkial2 masa akan datang. Almaklumlah, kerja beliau senang, tak perlu translate2, anak murid dan anak sendiri pun senang paham bile BM, duit pun senang dapat. Tak perlu terkial2 cakap BI. Makan gaji je la cikgu2 oi. Aku rasa cikgu2 yang ajar aku sejak sekolah dari darjah satu mesti sokong PPSMI kalau dia tgk aku skg ni..
Jgn kerana kononnya nak mempertahankan dan memperjuangkan 'perlembagaan' tetapi masa depan nanti anak2 kita yang sendiri belot pada perlembagaan kerana terlalu bodoh dan hilang kuasa.
