OVER the past few weeks there have been letters from the likes of Hassan Talib (“Revert to the old school set-up” —NST, Nov 7) and others who are in favour of bringing back English-medium schools.

Judging from the letters, it seems that there are more people in favour of bringing back these schools than those who are opposed to the idea. At the end of the day, however, it is really the Education Ministr y’s call. If the decision has been made and English is out, then I hope that the re-introduced use of Bahasa Malaysia in Science and Mathematics will be done gradually — in Year One initially and gradually moving to the other classes — r at h e r than having it re-introduced all at once in all classes. I also note that there have been appeals against the introduction of History as that would add a further load to an already overloaded school syllabus. If the decision is to have History, then it should not just be Malaysian history.

SAMUEL PADMAN, Parit Buntar

Source: NST – November 13, 2008