Singaporean's spliting on mother tounge's weighting (michael's response)

There are two sides regarding the issue.

Firsltly, by reducing the the weighting on Mother Tongue will do 'justice' to english-educated student as there are many foreigner, such as people from China that uses their Mother Tounge(chinese)to give them the edge to qualify to the top secondary school, especially in PSLE as only 4 subjects are being examined thus playing a big part in the student's aggregate score, to top it off, foreigners from countries such as phillipines and thailand, which are singapore's neighbouring countries, they are struggling with Mother Tounge as they are not offered their native languages as a result their PSLE aggregate suffers.

Secondly, recducing weighting on Mother Tongue may not be such a wise move. Quoting from the article http://news.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100511-215458.html (After the meeting, the KGMS said in a statement that such a move would result in students paying less attention to the subject, reduce curriculum time on the subject and weaken pupils' command of the Mother Tongue, it said.)(It may also undermine the welfare, morale and quality of Malay teachers: 'They will feel the subject they teach is 'second class' compared to English, Science and Maths, and consider themselves 'second class' teachers.'). This shows that it will cause much unhappiness in the education sector in singapore.