[PSLE MT] PSLE less weightage in Chinese / Mother Tongue

[dimsum]

tree nymph:

dimsum:

Ya, for Mr Ng to make that comment, Mr Lee should have already endorsed it. So, I don't think he's not in agreement with Mr Ng. To me, it's more like Mr Lee, with his SAP school background and being bilingual now wants to step in to lend support to this policy change. Mr Ng is not in a good position now to provide further justifications after netizens exposed the 1999 interview he and his son did with zaobao.

So, I am not feeling too optimistic

what is this 1999 interview? can share here?

Sure!
http://politicssg.blogspot.com/2010/04/truth-of-why-moe-is-reducing-weightage.html

[HyperKiasu]

木已成舟 liao....

[HyperKiasu]

dimsum:

tree nymph:

[quote=\"dimsum\"]
Ya, for Mr Ng to make that comment, Mr Lee should have already endorsed it. So, I don't think he's not in agreement with Mr Ng. To me, it's more like Mr Lee, with his SAP school background and being bilingual now wants to step in to lend support to this policy change. Mr Ng is not in a good position now to provide further justifications after netizens exposed the 1999 interview he and his son did with zaobao.

So, I am not feeling too optimistic

what is this 1999 interview? can share here?

Sure!
http://politicssg.blogspot.com/2010/04/truth-of-why-moe-is-reducing-weightage.html[/quote]Thanks Dimsum for providing the background information

[Joy]

HyperKiasu:

木已成舟 liao....

:lol:

[HyperKiasu]

Joy:

HyperKiasu:

木已成舟 liao....

:lol:

never mind, 谁笑到最后谁才笑得最好....

[minnie2004]

dimsum:

tree nymph, unfortunately, MM Lee's stance had changed:

He said in Nov last year that his insistence on bilingual policy was a mistake. “Successive generations of students paid a heavy price, because of my ignorance, by my insistence on bilingualism.”
The policy, he acknowledged with a laugh, is still 'not completely right but I will get it right if I live long enough'

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1018826/1/.html
http://www.pmo.gov.sg/News/Transcripts/Minister+Mentor/MM+Lee+wants+learning+of+Chinese+to+be+fun.htm

So probably Mr Ng is trying to \"get it right\".

Thanks dimsum for pulling this out. I was looking for it as I had the impression this was the root of the whole \"lowering MT weighting\" saga. Everytime MM Lee says something, even jokingly, some follow-up policies will miraculously come out

I was hoping they'll change the syllabus to make learning chinese more fun after this (i.e. more speech and drama, more interesting text books etc) but instead they chose the easy way out .

[outsider]

tamarind:

dimsum,

Thanks for posting this news. This is the front page news on the Zao Bao newspaper today. The Chinese news mentioned that many parents have sent in their feedback. My feeling is that Mr Lee is not in agreement with Mr Ng ?

Sorry tamarind.. I have to disagree with you....
他们都是穿着白色制服的。。他们很团结的。。。所接触的大多数是英语顶呱呱，华语讲不出的精英份子。 精英的后代也会有一天成为是精英， 国家注重的是他们。。。。。。。。

[Altum]

dimsum:

Mr Lee said he knows many Singaporeans are concerned about this and will be meeting the media soon with Dr Ng to address this.


- CNA/al

This is the key phrase. The meeting is to address the parents \"concerns\" (read unfounded ) , not to change the stance, which MM Lee will get right as long as he lives.

[Way2GO]

Altum:

dimsum:

Mr Lee said he knows many Singaporeans are concerned about this and will be meeting the media soon with Dr Ng to address this.


- CNA/al

This is the key phrase. The meeting is to address the parents \"concerns\" (read unfounded ) , not to change the stance, which MM Lee will get right as long as he lives.

Yesterday's ST reported that the Chinese Clans
are mobilizing to petition the gahmen.
MT is not just Mandarin,
what about Malay and Tamil?
These groups don't care or is it a case of
que sera sera?

[Altum]

AFAIK, petitions regarding issues like these are in vain.

The die is cast, just like the decision with casinoes, where
all religious groups and others are against it.