The memory is still fresh in my head.
"PPSMI, what is that?" first question prop out when the news being released.
The policy had been set up when I was in my final year in the elementary school.
At that time, my friends and I were astonished by the news as we were not ready for the changes.
However, we did survive and did excellently in our exam for the next five years in secondary school.
But, transformation wave has once been triggered again.
The policy will be changed again.
This time, science and maths will be taught in Malay.
Before the PPSMI being set up, science and maths were being taught in Malay.
However, our former PM thought that we Malaysians need to be competents to survive in the new era of globalisation.
Therefore, process of implementing PPSMI started.
After spending millions and billions of money, PPSMI had being fully implemented throughout the nation.
Results of the policy started to reveal itself.
Typical Malaysians who do not like changes in the their current wave frequency created huge repel on this matter.
They were criticising and being cynical toward the matter as this new policy will force themselves to walk out of their comfort zones.
Thus, the long obstacles for the policy attacked it waves by waves.
Nevertheless, the policy survived.
Under the pressure of public, it tried it best to prove itself.
At the beginning, things did not turn out well.
Yet, times being allocated fro improvement.
And it did change.
The result started to hike in the statistic chart.
The public had started to accept the policy.
They awared of the pros and cons of the policy.
And while the market started to increase the demand for high English proficiency commander, public started to take this matter more seriously.
They now realised that the policy will help them to prepare themselves for the hard and cruel world.
Hence, the result keep on its way in hiking the chart.
In contra, problems prop up to disagree the policy again.
Waves of obstacles never stopped.
Result showed that students in urban areas were easily adapted to the new policy and keeping up with a good pace whereas rural areas students were hardly adapted to the new policy.
This result itself had bombarded its own policy.
But, what is the cause of the problems to arise?
Why is there a big contra between urban students and rural students?
Is it simply just because of the policy itself?
Or is it because the development pace in both areas?
Or is it because of the system itself?
There is never only a reason for a problem to arise.
Its like a chain reaction.
Without a good system, develoment pace differed.
Without proper facilities and resources, the policy shown different results.
So, is it the policy to be blamed?
Another issue had been brought up to attack the policy.
The usage of our national language.
People claims that English had caused the deteriorating of the national language status.
Students had put more focus and attention on English than our Bahasa Malaysia.
But, what is the backbone for the problem to arise?
Again, its a chain reaction.
English is undeniably important for us as Malaysians to have a good command in the language as it does help us to expand our economic wings.
And, English itself had been taught as a second language in our country.
With the advance technology, people know what is good and bad for them.
But, this is not a reason for Malaysians to put less weight on the national language.
National language is important as it represents our nation.
Yet, English is also important for our own survival in this harsh world.
Come to the last and least, the root of problem is the people themselves.
The mindset is the mastermind for all problems.
People had been so blindly inculcated with the perceptions that only English will provide you a better future.
But, I did not see that is a necessary or compulsory.
Malay language itself had a huge role in the world economy.
The problem does not come from the policy or selected language for the education.
Any languages used to convey the knowledge will be the same.
The knowledge does not change because of the language.
Concepts, theories and terminologies will always remain the same.
It is the people who has to adapt themselves and transform themselves into multilinguists in order to gain knowledge.
Lastly, I myself do not think that PPSMI is a failure.
Although I could not change the policy, I am still glad that this policy had been set up before and I was one of the benefiters.
I sincerely wish that the new coming badges of students could quickly adapt themselves to the new policy and move on.
No point arguing for something you could hardly change and waste all the precious time.
