Language imposition
First, would Mr Minns please nominate the areas of study to be diminished or sacrificed to make way for compulsory Mandarin?
Second, would he explain where he would suddenly obtain the thousands of trained specialists to teach the classes?
Third, is he willing to face the backlash from students and parents when they realise that their career or university entrance hopes will be adversely affected by the requirement to include Mandarin in their final HSC results?
Had Mr Minns done his homework he would have seen that we have "been here before". In the 1980s it was Indonesian, in the 1990s it was Japanese. Compulsory Mandarin would be an administrative impossibility and a political "own-goal".
Stephen Dixon, Engadine