My opinion on Singaporeans split on Mother Tongue weighting

In my opinion, the diminution on Mother Tongue weighting for Primary School Leaving Examination(PSLE) students have gotten good and bad responses. Many of the citizens whom are not in favour of the new move were in uproar ever since the government decided to reduce the 'language load' off the primary school children.

Actually, this has its own advantage as the primary school students could concentrate more in other subjects when the weightage of Mother Tongue is lessened. However, this might lead the students to think that Mother Tongue is not an important subject and therefore do not do well for their Mother Tongue exam. Doing so would discourage the students to learn more about their native language.Also, this might affect not only the students, but the Mother Tongue teachers as they would feel demoralised when they think that they are not as 'important' as the other teachers. Other than that, there are still many people in Singapore who cannot speak English and are still speaking in their own Mother Tongues. They would feel discriminated if their next generation is not taught Mother Tongue properly like English.

Therefore, I think that by lessening the Mother Tongue weightage, it does not mean it would lighten the Singaporean's lives or making it any easier.

by: Felicia Natalia