I refer to the Malaysiakini report Mukhriz: Close down vernacular schools.

In order to forge unity, if that was the true intention, then my suggestion is that all national schools subjects be taught in English.

This will help to remove the political element from schools and education. The current political scenario is race based and trying to force any particular racial group to study in a single language which is not their mother tongue will not work.

English would be a neutral medium for all the main races in Malaysia and let us not go back to the polemics that English means we have still not broken away from the shackles of British colonialism.

Or that if we don’t accept Bahasa Malaysia we are not loyal Malaysians and that given a slight chance or reason we will immediately pack our bags and head back to China or India etc.

We should also allow vernacular schools to exist as an option but their funding should not then be a priority of the government since the emphasis would then be on English medium national schools and the unity of Malaysians.

With national schools in the English medium, it should be compulsory that Bahasa Malaysia be a compulsory language subject. Other mother tongue language subjects should also be taught and be provided with good and effective support in these national schools for those who wish to learn these mother tongue languages.

This will ensure our national schools will produce Malaysians who are proficient in the English language which as we all know is the language of commerce in this globalised world.

Why do you think most of the BN politicians send their children overseas where the medium of teaching is in English? One has even become a permanent resident of another country just to do that.

Don’t keep on lying to the Malaysian public please as Malaysians nowadays are much more aware of hypocritical politicians.

And please, let’s not think that putting a quota for non-Malay teachers in national schools will solve this problem. This will still mean that we are being race-based in our thinking for the national education system.

I can hear some people in the background screaming ‘Why only 40%,? Why not 30% or 60%?’

We made a grave mistake in changing the medium of teaching in our schools from English to Bahasa Malaysia in the 1970s. Let’s admit that was a huge mistake.

All of us allowed shortsighted politicians with vested interests then to create today’s situation. These very same politicians are now sending their children to schools and colleges overseas where the medium of instruction is in English.

Let’s change the medium of instructions in our schools totally to English before it is too late. For the sake of the future generations of loyal Malaysians, let’s not kid ourselves and let politicians lie to us again.