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ensure that Malaysians were able to face global challenges at the earliest opportunity.

Besides that, English is also crucial for better employment, international communication,

and the acquisition of knowledge, if our students are not able to communicate with the

world or are hindered from gaining knowledge because of our deficiency in the

language our ability to complete internationally will be serious undermined. This would

also rob the younger generation of job opportunities.

3. Besides, this reversal policy also a great burden for the students, especially

those who are currently in Form 1 to revert to Bahasa Malaysia when they reach Form 4

in 2012. This Form 1 batch is the first batch of primary students who did PPSMI from

Year 1. I hope government especially our Education Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

understands the problem faced by these students who will have to switch to Bahasa

Malaysia for two years when they are in Form 4 and 5, then back to English again when

they pursuing their studies to Form 6 or matriculation. It is unfair for them. Many

parents and students also are disappointed at the Cabinets decision to revert decision,

this statement was quoted from The Star,9 thJuly. Although the Education Ministry

mayb e working towards a soft landing on the reversal of the teaching science and

mathematics but it is giving a great and negative impact to the students. There was a

letter too published to The Star on 13 th July by a worried parent regarding this problem.

4. I do agree with the Mathematics teacher, M.Vasu in the newspaper The Star

published on 12 thJuly 2009 that improving the English classes will not be effective in

improving English proficieny in the rural areas because many will not be motivated to

learn in the language if Science and Mathematics are taught in Bhasa Malaysia. Who

says students from rural areas cannot catch up with English in teaching Science and

Mathematics? There are a lot of students have scored flying colours in their studies

especially in these subjects. We should look back, when the medium teaching in the

colonial times around 60s and 70s, the quality of English among the students are not

bad although many of them are from rural areas like villages and estates. We also

managed to produce a lot of professionals during that period. This is because it is not

about where you learn English but it is about how it is taught and who is teaching.

Government should play the role by providing a lot of quality teachers to teach

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