Mother Tongue is First in Line!

It is not new to us the battle between the use of our Mother Tongue and the use of Foreign Languages. I know that you know Dr. Jose Rizal's quotation; "Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika, ay mas mabaho pa kaysa sa malansang isda." tells us that we must love our own language but still it was said that we must use English when teaching at the schools. I really don't know if this is right or wrong. Still, it is on our own opinion. 

Based on facts, there are pure Filipinos who don't know how to speak our language because English was first introduced to them by their parents. Even when I am just walking in the mall, I can hear children who use English instead of Tagalog while speaking to their mother. I know when some of you hear a Filipino child about 3-4 years of age speaking in English, you think that he or she is smart, and rich. I don't feel the same when I hear a child like that. If a child speaks in English, he or she is rich and smart already? How about a child speaking in Tagalog? Of course you won't think that he or she is smart and rich. All I can see through this thinking is racism and discrimination! Isn't it unfair? Do you accept that you are more pungent than a fish?

I know that using foreign languages isn't bad, not at all. But still, mastery of our Mother Tongue must be the first in line instead of the Fluency of Foreign Languages. We must learn how to use Tagalog first and master it before introducing new language to our tongue. Isn't it awful if we are Pinoy and Pinay but we cannot use our language fluently? Come to think of it, we must not be an alien to our language? It is like an Earthling living on Mars! I am not against using other language but please, the percentage of the knowledge in our language must be larger than any other languages. I don't want to see Philippines, with Pinoy and Pinay living with foreign languages and our Mother Tongue is deeply buried in the wilderness.