#409: Merit Eh?

#409 took awhile to come, but there goes:

It's me talking about politics again.. perhaps, many of us that have stopped schooling or are too distant to people with kids in primary school might not have paid attention to this piece of news, in fact, i too have grossed over the details, i only know how that the government has decided that is it necessary to tweak the PSLE weightage for Mother Tongue downwards..

Quite obviously, this creates an impression that Mother Tongue is less important and thus pale in comparison to more important subjects like the english language, maths and science..

Now then, if the arguement that reducing the importantance of mother tongue helps deserving students who are disadvantaged due to their weakness in thw language..

then is this being fair?

so the MOE claims that reducing the weightage of mother tongue helps students..

It will allow those stronger in mother tongues, but weaker in other subjects, to go into streams that are more suitable for them.
-reported by Jessica Yeo, 26 Apr 2010, CNA

So its not the english speaking elites that we are trying to help here? That reducing the weightage for those STRONG in mother tongue actually helps them? How so?

Then for someone like me that sucks at math, wouldn't reducing the weightage help me instead of helping those who are stronger in math to go into streams more suitable for them?

MOE's position holds no water.. what have the policy makers done now?

Meritoracy is skewed

Meritoracy is screwed as well, hope my son don't get the brunt of this crap when its his turn to take the PSLE..