Now the sentiments on both sides involved in the argument are that of wanting to gain a totally win, one side wants to do away with it completely, while the other wants to embrace it stock and barrels.
They should meet half way, let the subjects to be taught in the children's mother tongue for Primary schools because they need full concentration to master their mother tongue and National Language at this stage. English should be taught as a second language.
Then when they reach Secondary school, they would have acquired enough skills in English to be able to understand the internationalization of the subjects in English fully. I strongly urge the use of English at this level because it is a very important international language.
But the government seeks the easy way out by simply abolishing it in both Primary and Secondary levels. While some English-speaking parents want it to be implemented right from the beginning stage of a child's schooling days disregarding the weakness of English of most children, especially those from the kampongs. This is pure selfishness because they know their own children are good at English and have a clear advantage over others in the class if these subjects are taught in English.
Then there are the politicians. Please don't politicize this issue for our future generation's sake.
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