Satu Malaysia, "Rakyat didahulukan, Pencapaian diutamakan".*wth?The so called 1Malaysia slogon, introduced by our PM Dato Sri Najib Tun Razak, we have heard about it hundreds, thousands, or even millions time from various media sources, such as television, especially those national channels such as Tv1,2,3 (you and me know it well) and also radio, newspapers, so on and so forth. I remember when I was preparing my SPM, my tuition teacher always stressed that these are the "quotes" that we cannot missed out in our karangans, that's why, without any difficulties, I can easily say out those patriotism slogans and one more thing you couldn't believe, I memorize some Al-Quran verses as well. :) *why? think about it!
so, what do 1Malaysia concept do with our country's education system? Hmm, 1Malaysia, obviously emphasizing harmony and unity between the poeple of the nation. Though I oftenly heard the politicians shouting "1Malaysia" like nobody's business, the things they do and decisions made by the Ministries showed that that slogan after all is just a slogan, none of the concepts had applied into whatever they do and one of the impressive one is out education system.
Let's review one of the article I read in The Sun couple days ago, regarding " the standards of SPM chinese paper". Sit back and stay calm, you couldn't believe that the chinese paper we took last year , let me make it clearer, 2010 SPM Chinese Paper was actually of STPM standard. *WHAT THE HELL and I guess the Jabatan Peperiksaan is too lazy, they even take the exact question from the STPM paper set 10 years ago!
For those who study in chinese secondary schools or for those who are not, we all know that the topic of Chinese is the hardest subject to get an A+ or even an A in SPM. It's not surprising cause it's already an old story since long long long long time ago. The percentage of scoring A+ in Chinese is very low, and I remembered there was a news that a gang of students made report to their principal that they don't want to sit for SPM chinese paper as they afraid that particular subject will affects their overall results. How shameful but it's not all their faults, but who else? Yes, the education system we have in Malaysia.
With 1Malaysia concept, I suppose our government should make a change in SPM chinese paper, which is extremely hard to score an A+, what's more when the questions is set beyond the international levels? while I don't think we have that many of good or beyond 'levels' Chinese teachers who can guide our students to ace such "HIGH" standard paper. Perhaps there're, but not many, a handful of them :)
"Sigh" is the only word I can express and end this very random post. Something should be done, to have a brighter and better future for our young generation. As my former english teacher said " kulitfication" should be abolish in our country and make the 1Malaysia applied but not only a slogan to shout!
* to the representative of M'sia chinese students, MCA, do something =) don't "JLB" lol!
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