QUOTE(bereev @ Jan 11 2013, 09:50 AM)
my department assitance manager grads from indipendent chinese secondary at klang also, enroll and accepted by Nortingham Trend univ. Malaysia branch semenyih , yes his english abit wired in coversation but read and write no problem.
the different with govt school and those indipendent / international school is the level of examination exp: SPM score A1 = what grade of GCE Level ; STPM A1 compare to A Level equal to what grade C or D ? independent chinese school final exam event not recognise by govt but the grade are more close to A level, Indipendent scholl sure will taken A level as final exap with optional for SPM is the student wan to.
Another thing is independent/international school are not restrited on the selection of subject like govt. school there are few core subject that must study and pass in spm, and when come to form 4 govt. school stident need to opt for sciense stream or art stream, who the hell said science stream student can't study account / commernce it only happen in govnt. school. and YES why stress your child to study those subject they are not intrested.
The standard of English in Malaysia began its decline when the govt decided to adopt the SRK/SMK syllabus of using BM in all subjects and less emphasis in the English language in the early 80s. It doesn't matter where you ended up, unless you have extra English classes, you were doomed to using spell check forever.

But apart from that, most parents decided that they should send their kids over to CI (Chinese Independant) schools due to the perception of better trained teachers as compared to SKs (Sekolah Kebangsaan) which also places English as a 2nd/3rd language and this probably sealed the fates of children to converse in English. Compare this to S'pore where they place emphasis on English and Mandarin whereby both the standards are way higher than ours, follow blogs from S'pore and M'sia and you will see the quality of English from the ones posting threads and replies from readers. Perfect grammar and least spelling mistakes. Makes you wonder why this happened?
Go around LYT and see how bad English is used. I do not mean we need to speak like people in the West but keep the grammar correct and Chinese-ed ppl confuse gender during conversations as well.
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QUOTE(stimix @ Jan 11 2013, 09:57 AM)
Not all-lah.. I mean majority of the graduates from Chinese independent school normally ended up in traditional chinese businesses and only minority in those professional 9-5 jobs..
Anyway, those graduated and becoming Ah Beng & Ah Liang will be the one more successful than those working 9 to 5 or those Ah Beng & Ah Liang haha
Successful managing coffee-shops, massage parlours, KTVs, gambling joints, etc.? Looks like most of them are driving P.Cayenne, N.Skyline, Alphards and Rover Evoques as can be seen at watering holes in Geographer and Setia Walk. Many 9-6 workers toiled their entire lives and the most they can show is a Proton...

Remember when I parents taught us to abide by the law when we were young and to study hard so we can have a better life?
I should have run away and used my skills to move up the ranks to Tiger General or better, have la-la muis on my side and pay everything in cold hard cash...lol, too much dreaming! They have more fun than us so called white collared workers.
This post has been edited by pgsiemkia: Jan 11 2013, 12:06 PM