The impending 10-subjects cap for SPM-ers portends an opportune time for both the Chinese and Tamil schools' proponents and supporters to top-out their 'fights' after all these years!
Why would I say that?
Oh well, freedom to determine and set 'realistic and meritrocratic standards' that reflect prevailing and future professional, vocational and cultural needs, thats why!
We have been too aware of the quality of our graduates for years now. Their inherent capabilities were not and ought not beckon suspect. Rather it was the 'quality of the milling' that the majority was subjected to and underwent for a good 13 to 16 years in our formal education system that was a priori the blame. No?
Instead of crying and shouting about loss of recognition and whats-not, entities like Dong Zong, NUTP and MIC should immediately seek out their respective sectors' well-wishing participants' and stakeholders' collective consensus on what should constitute acceptable standard(s) governing their vernacular languages and their pertinent pedagogies.
Once resolved they should immediately source for if not set about nurturing 'capable teachers and trainers'. A word of caution here though: Good language teachers and trainers are rare human capital nowadays in the country. Go forth and seek out the best but first get the required 'ground work' done. This is where your community's elected reps must be made to yield - to your terms and conditions lah!
For once, stake your own communities' cultural heritage on your own doing and, darn it, not to rely upon the government's hitherto limited and, of course, selective largesse.
On this issue and for once, I am agreeable with the government's education policy.
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