I don't mind if BM is a must pass subject. It's the national language after all. Whether it's useful or not is irrelevant. But there are two main problems with the current implementation.

Students from SK are not subjected to this proficiency test. Why? By excluding them, it makes it discriminatory.

The second issue is we could've curbed this problem earlier on. If we see a child is having problems with BM say in Year 3, we could intervene much earlier and not wait until they graduate from Year 6.

That does not invalidate what I said though? What I said still applies. Proficiency test should be applied to all students, not just SRJK students.
Does being in SK automatically makes ALL students meet the minimum requirements in BM proficiency?

Also early intervention would help weak students.


What I am trying to point out is the weakness and the false assumptions in the current implementation.
And chill. Not everyone that is critical to the current implementation is doing that because of the elections/didn't read the article.

I think it should be extended to SRK to not be discriminatory and to help weak students from SRK. If you do not agree then yeah let's agree to disagree.

Maybe I missed it but I don't see where in the article where it says there will be earlier assessments at year 1 to 5.
Are you assuming it will be there because of the policy changes?

If such intervention is not funded, it will not be there. Teachers are already overloaded in SRJK.

Okay. So you are assuming it will happen.
In reality, it won't happen, at least for a lot of schools. Simple as that.
Only well funded schools would be able to do that.