Perhaps because their language education is so diverse in the six years of primary school, the majority of children do not speak Chinese very graciously or very fluently. Meanwhile, due to the presence of Malay and English, some people worry that they may fail to achieve fluency in any of the languages.
也或許，因為小學六年語文教育過於切割的關係，大部分孩子的華語不甚優美流暢，馬來語和英語也零零落落，有人憂心地以「半瓶水現象」稱之。