MoE's new Chinese policy change

Recently, MoE announced that there is going to be a new change in the weighting of Chinese Language in which the weighting of Chinese in PSLE will be reduced. I strongly disapprove of this new policy change.

Didn't our teachers always say to us, that all subjects are equal, and that we have to spent equal effort on each of the subjects? Why the sudden change? What do you think will happen if you reduced the weighting of Chinese in PSLE will be reduced? Nobody will study as hard for Chinese anymore. Lets say if the weighting of Chinese were to be reduced to 50%, nobody will study as hard for a subject in which even if you get full marks, you get only half as much as getting full marks in another subject. So if we reduce the weighting of Chinese, the natural reaction of all P6 students and their parents will be to put less emphasis on Chinese and to put more emphasis on the other subjects. This is ridiculous, as it totally undermines the importance of the Chinese Language in our society. And why specifically mention reduce Chinese? What about the other Mother Tongues? Singapore has been encouraging us to study Chinese well just a few months ago, so why the sudden change in policy? Quite ironic, no? Also, do they not know the possible implications of this? China is becoming a stronger economic country by the day, and even foreign countries are studying Chinese, and knowing how important Chinese might be to us in the future, reducing the weighting of Chinese and making people take Chinese less seriously couldn't have came at a worst time. Admittedly, there are people who do badly at Chinese and their grades get dragged down by it because they do not have the background, but if Singapore is reducing the weighting of Chinese because of that, I recommend that Singapore look at the case of the new PSLE scholar. She did not have any background in English, and having came from China at P5, she had just 3 years ( she had to repeat P5), but she still managed to get and A* in English, and A* in Math and Science paper although both the papers were set in English. Now, students in Singapore have 6 years to learn and master Chinese, and there's only one paper in which it is set in Chinese, so I don't get how Singapore student's cannot do well in Chinese. And even if they can't, it doesn't warrant a reduce in the weighting of Chinese. Or is it because the PSLE is being dominated by students from China and Singapore wants to change this by reducing the weighting of Chinese, thus dragging down the students from China? If that is the case, then the government seriously needs to reconsider.

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