Why Maths and Science in Bahasa Malaysia again?

When our government decided to change our education medium to Bahasa Malaysia (BM) about 30 over years ago, they must have thought since we're an independent country we should teach our children using our national language. Okay, so all subjects (except English Language) were translated to BM and all students were taught in BM. I'm sure all teachers and students at that time struggled but somehow they managed.

But then, the standard of English in our country has deteriorate since. Going from bad to worse. And then suddenly after 30 years someone realised that they had made a mistake. And they decided to change, not all but 2 subjects to English medium. Mathematics and Science. Somehow they see these two subjects as 'the important ones' that need to be in English. Okay, not everyone is happy with this decision but many agreed. So let's give it a try?

History repeating? Teachers and students struggled but this time I think the teachers struggled more. Imagine if the teacher were born 30 years ago and had studied every subject in BM during his/her primary, secondary, college and university education, how is he/she going to teach our children in English? So these teachers are allowed to teach using 2 languages, BM and English mixed...???

Can you imagine the situation in the classrooms? What is the purpose of changing the medium to English when it will still be taught in BM or worse mixed languages. Thus the children suffered especially those in the rural areas. Probably they didn't take extra tuition classes. Results were not too good and the parents of these children were not happy.

Not happy? Okay, we change! Back to BM! Yes, for your own good! After 13 years! Can you imagine now, what will happened to those children who had studied Maths and Science in BM for 3 years (the project started in year 2002, for Year 1, Form 1 and Form 6 students. Those in Year 4 till 6 UPSR remain in BM), then in English for 3 years (PMR, presently) and then suddenly they have to do them in BM again (SPM)? And then back to English in Form 6? What kind of game is this? What is our government trying to prove? That our children are highly adaptable geniuses?

I'm really not against using BM as our education medium. I'm sure many countries did the same thing. Countries such as Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Myanmar, German, France, and many others did not use English for their education system and yet they can excel. The only thing they lack is communication skills in English which is deem as the international language.

I agree that we should raise the standard of English in our country, but indeed there are many many ways to do it. We could have more English lessons and activities in English. Instead of only 3 - 4 hours a week, maybe 6 hours or more? Most of all, train more English speaking teachers?

I think once you are able to understand, speak, read and write well in English applying it to other subjects should not be a problem at all.

Just by changing our Maths and Science medium to English is not the solution to a better standard of English. Changing it back and forth makes matter worse! Why? Why make things worse?

My say, "Do it once and for all or do nothing at all".