Policy for Chinese language in PSLE

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Ok, so were was i?



Right, today's new topic. Not really new, but really a good topic. What is it again? Oh yeah, MOE's decision to lower the weighting if chinese language in PSLE.



Woah.



That is really a big decision.



That was my first reaction to this news. Dr Hon posted this EMB message that MOE is going to lower the weighting for chinese language in PSLE. When i saw it at first, my jaws dropped, literally. I was like rubbing my eyes and pinching myself. Of course, anyone would have reacted like that to such an important decision.



Impossible. Unacceptable.



That was my first thought. When i continued reading, i became furious at the MOE's strange decision. Why would they suddenly do such a rash thing? How could they just lower the weighting just for the sake of a few people? Unacceptable! I became very interested in this and continued to look for online discussions and newspapers relevant to this topic. Based on what i found, most people voted for letting PSLE stay the same.



So why is the ministry changing? Why are the ministry changing this policy?

I was furious and asked my mother on this matter. She said that the ministry received a lot of complains that just because of chinese language, it pulled down the marks of alot students' total marks, hence resulting in not being able to enter good schools. She also expressed her fury to me.

The government is simply selfish. They only cater to those small groups of people that complained and complained all day long that chinese is too hard for their son, daughter, they came from another country and cannot study well, Chinese is too complicated......

WAKE UP, PEOPLE! SERIOUSLY!

What kind of stupid excuse is that? Oh yeah, and looking through the discussion threads, all of them had at least 70% of the people agreeing not to change the current system. If this was the case, then why..... why did the government change its policy? I think this is a stupid action. Right, you may think that i am exaggerating things a bit as a came from a chinese background, but hello people, this is simply outrageous.

How many people, how many students taking the PSLE every year are good in chinese and use Chinese as their only hope of entering good schools and by lowering the percentage, the ministry are just trying to extinguish their hopes! How could this even be thought up! What about others? What if people like me, who is good in chinese and bad in english, take the PSLE and got very high for chinese and low for english? Compare it to someone who got high in english and low in Chinese. Right, same thing. But if this policy is used, then it would not be the same thing! I would get lower marks than that student, and he may be able to get into a good school and i may not! That is the difference. Some more, we are not in a country like America, of which the common language is english.

We are a multiracial society!

We do not have a common language! And the ministry's actions of reducing the weighting of chinese shows that it is biased! Why not reduce the weighting of Maths? Why not reduce the weighting of science? Why not reduce the weighting of English? Why not reduce...... Yeah, why not, ministry? Why not? Why Chinese?

There are alot of people who are very good in Chinese in Singapore. As i have mentioned, if the ministry reduced the Weighting of Chinese, then wouldn't it be unfair? Why can't the ministry just let things remain the same. It would not hurt, right? And on the newspapers people even wrote that in the past, the Chinese language in PSLE was so much harder than nowadays. So why are the people complaining?

If YOU cannot get a good score in PSLE, don't complain! Work hard! Work smart! Work diligently! Don't always complain this, complain that, and think that things would fall in place. Don't expect the MOE to do everything for you! Could you at least spare a thought for others? How they would "die" if the weighting is reduced? At least the ones whose English are bad did not complain right? So why is it that you should complain?

And the MOE also has responsibility over this issue. No offence, of course.

Lee Hsien Loong said a few months back that Chinese is a very important subject. If we can master chinese, in future it would be very useful. I was agreeing to him at that time.

What a joke.

If even our prime minister said that Chinese is important, why are they reducing the weighting? The ministry's actions are simply contradicting themselves! At one time they said that we should study Chinese well, another they are indirectly saying that Chinese should be studied less. What are they doing, changing their thoughts every once and then?

I feel that this matter should not be even discussed. It is a rhetorical question. However, i think the reason the ministry did this was because of a reason.

But anyways, i think that the ministry should not come up with such a policy.

Maybe you have differing views? Tell me then!