Mother Tongue...Is Singapore Willing To Drop Sacrifice???

Recent news talked about MOE deciding whether to lower the weightage of Mother Tongue language in PSLE. This let me to think; if we really do that,would students still be encouraged to study the language? Would this let to future Singaporeans not being able to have a good understanding of the language and also thus making Singaporeans not being able have an advantage which we initially had...

Many parents are making a fuss about Mother Tongue language pulling their child's overall grades lower, thus not enabling them to enter a good class or even a good school that they intended.
I learnt that if all of your results were to be A's and your Mother Tongue got a D grade, your eventual result would not pass 200 points .This caused many parents to be worried about the future of their child being limited by the "un-important" language.

Singapore is on the tip of the Malaysia Peninsular and thus we heavily depend on trading between the East(China,Taiwan,Japan) and the West (US, EU). This makes us the middleman i believe, between the two.Thus the understanding and fluency of speaking the two language is important to Singapore. This was why MOE initially intended making Mother Tongue language important, thus giving us the advantage compared to other countries within this region.

I believe the weightage of Mother Tongue shouldn't be lower, cause Singapore should maintain this edge thus allowing Singapore to maintain as the priority choice of trading between the East and West.....