Oh yeah, the ridiculous PPSMI policy (abbreviation of “Teaching of Science and Mathematics in English”) is finally abolished. The only catch is that it will only be discontinued in 2012….but I guess that is nothing compared to the destruction that this policy could do if it remains in force.
I am overjoyed (and that is probably an understatement) at the news. It doesn’t mean that I will support BN because of this, but finally someone up there got some sense knocked into his head. I have always maintained in the past and until today that to improve one’s command of English, the only way to do so is to encourage reading and a mass overhaul of that dreadful English syllabus that I went through in KBSR and KBSM.
Anyway, to celebrate this momentous occassion, I am off to do the moonwalk. Watch me!
08 Jul
Heard and read the news that the new Penang government is abolishing the NEP in Penang. To me it does not make any real difference as to whether NEP is abolished or not. For so long the policy which was intended to help the Malay poor has been abused by the establishment who rely on dosage form development to enrich themselves. The NEP, for all it claims and purposes, has no real relevance in today’s Malaysia. We have come really a long way since then. Look at how smoothly the transition of power happened in the five states that fell to the Barisan Alternatif. This would not have been possible in 1969.
Having said that however, I do concede that my father was a product of the NEP, and had this policy not come into existence, he would have remained in a remote kampung in Johor tapping rubber, and yours truly will be the son of a rubber tapper. But of course, we are talking about fifty years ago.
12 Mar
