Lol first you said PM, not you say MP. Do you live in AMK?
Remember that in Singapore at this age, ENGLISH COMES FIRST! It is
everyone's native language, even the so called mother tongue is
taken as a second language. If you think that Mandarin should
replace English in Sg, you are dead wrong, my friend. Dead
wrong.
Furthermore, do you know "even the so called mother tongue" that
is "taken as (our) second language" is not out real mother
tongues?
Not only English replace Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, the
so-called mother tongue "Mandarin", "Malay" and "Tamil" are fake
mother tongues to many of these ethnic groups in Singapore.
As pointed out to you in my previous post in the previous page,
the different types of Indians speak
different Indian languages. For
example, if your ancestors came from Kerala, most
probably your mother tongue is Malayalam.
If one's ancestors came from Andhra
Pradesh, one's mother tongue is Telugu.
Not all the Indian
people's mother tongues is Tamil,
and quite a sizeable proportion of Indians in Singapore do
not have Tamil as their mother tongue, but are forced to
choose Tamil when they enrolled in Primary 1. You can see
from their surnames, example, Indians whose surnames
are Mohanan, Bhaskaran,
Reddy, usually they are not Tamils, they are
Malayalees and Telaganas. But Singapore government only
publishes Tamil
textbooks and teach in the Tamil syllabus.
What is more frustrating is that, the government indeed
provides 2nd language instruction at MOE for Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, and Punjabi :
see here
http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/returning-singaporeans/mother-tongue-policy/
Why provide for Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, and Punjabi which are the
most minority groups among the Indians in Singapore,
and purposely
omit Telugu,
Malayalam ,
when a very significant proportion of Singaporean Indians
ancestors came from South India ???
What do they mean by
non-Tamil students (may choose these languages)?
A Telugu person and a
Malayalee person are
Non-Tamil people as well
!!!
This is very unreasonable.
