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Deputy Prime Minister cum Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin should review the proposed plan in the National Education Blueprint to abolish remove classes from secondary school from next year.

I hope the Education Ministry will carry out more intensive studies and research on the plan before the classes are completely removed from secondary school.

This is to ensure no repetition of the similar dilemmas arising from the switching of the medium of instruction of teaching in our secondary schools.

The objective of having remove classes is to ensure that students who are weak will be safely eased into the lower secondary.

However, in order to achieve the plan to abolish the remove class, the Education Ministry has proposed that it would be compulsory for Primary 4 students in Chinese and Tamil primary schools to study the same syllabus as the students in national type schools.

This is definitely an unreasonable and heavy burden to be placed on a 10 year-old, having to learn three languages and to be good in them.

Further, to add the study of a another language in non-Malay medium primary schools would cause more problems than benefits at the moment as more Malay language teachers would be needed and there would be less time for other lessons or classes.

It is unacceptable that the Education Ministry keeps changing its policies, and, worse, they often are at odds with each other.

Under former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, English was made as the medium to teach science and mathematics and now it is back to Malay.

I am sure that our students and teachers are confused and unable to follow the sudden changes in our educational system.

I further urge the Education Ministry to focus on the issue of high dropout rate in lower secondary schools especially those students from non-Malay medium primary schools.


TERESA KOK is MP for for Seputeh and senior exco member for Selangor.

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