Appeal just falling on deaf ears

SINCE the announcement in 2009 that the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) would be abolished, many of us have been lobbying for PPSMI to be given as an option and there were also calls to reinstate English-medium schools.

The Education Ministry does not seem to want to listen. In a letter “Why PPSMI is abolished” (The Star, Oct 5, 2011), one of the reasons given by the ministry was that it had estimated that about 500,000 students “fell victim” to PPSMI each year and it was obviously a gross injustice to these students if the ministry were to continue with PPSMI.