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School in storeroom

Schooling in storeroom

Classes starting

Construction starts

Luckily its election time soon. If not, it will be ages until the school is rebuilt.

What the parents ask is logical as well. Why not build the extra classroom now itself? Surely the intake will be higher next year once the students move into the new premises. This is not discrimination or any ethnic cleansing, is it?

Pupils will leave ’stable’ classrooms next year

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KLANG: Old stables and storerooms are hardly a conducive learning environment but that is what 160 pupils of a school here have been putting up with over the last five years. However, they can now look forward to proper classrooms following an allocation from the Education Ministry for the construction of a three-storey building.

Education Ministry parliamentary secretary Datin Paduka P. Komala Devi said the ministry had allocated RM800,000 for the construction of a proper school building for SJK (T) Tepi Sungai.

It made headlines when it became the first school in the country to fully operate from the Klang Municipal Council storerooms.A section of the school had collapsed in 2003 because of termite infestations and the other buildings were subsequently declared unsafe. Four classrooms, the office and the staff room were moved to the council’s storerooms. A two-classroom block housing Years Five and Six classes and the canteen were the only structures that remained functional. However, a fire last month destroyed one of the classrooms and this prompted the authorities to declare the block out of bounds. With this, all six classes, the office and the staff room operated out of the storerooms, which had once served as stables.

Komala Devi said RM200,000 had earlier been given to the school Parents-Teachers Association and it would also be used for the construction of the new building. The total cost of the building is estimated at RM1.3 million.  The school’s new building committee has raised another RM100,000.Komala Devi said the ministry would top up the balance later.

She said the new block was expected to be ready by the next school year.

Komala Devi said delay in building the new block was unavoidable due to the need to get approvals and funding.She said it was also not possible to have temporary classrooms due to the limited space, adding that the school would have to operate from the storerooms for this year.

The long-awaited announcement, however, received mixed reactions from some parents. This is because the new block will have only six classrooms and another one for kindergarten.

“The old school block also had six classrooms, so is there any upgrade? What is the difference?

“They may just as well have refurbished the old school block,” said a parent who declined to be named. He said although the new block had many other rooms for subjects like science and living skills and the staff room, there were not enough classrooms.

Another parent said the school enrolment was expected to increase with the completion of the new building. “Of course the student population is low now. Who would want to send their children to study in horse stables and storerooms?”

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This is the school which is now running in modified store rooms due to fire and unsafe building.

Work on Tamil school building starts

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KLANG: Construction work on a new building for SJK (T) Tepi Sungai here has finally taken off.

Education Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Datin Paduka Komala Krishnamoorthy said the three-storey building would cost about RM1mil.

In May 2003, part of the 100-year-old school building collapsed and was demolished later after being declared unsafe.

The situation worsened when the school’s remaining classrooms were damaged in a fire at the end of last year.

All 158 pupils were forced to attend classes next door at the Klang Municipal Council’s (MPK) store, which had been turned into temporary classrooms.

Klang MIC division head Alex Tiagarasan, who is a councillor, said the new building would have 18 classrooms.

“The contactor has promised to complete the project as soon as possible although there was no time frame when it will be completed,” he said.

The school will also have a new computer lab, a canteen and a library.

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also read earlier stories at:http://poobalan.com/blog/tamil-schools/2007/12/28/schooling-in-storerooms/
http://poobalan.com/blog/tamil-schools/2007/12/24/tamil-sjkt-tepi-sungai-classes-in-storerooms/

Making the best of 'classes' at council storerooms

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Students at SRJK (T) Tepi Sungai are temporarily having their classes at the Klang Municipal Council storerooms along Jalan Tepi Sungai.

KLANG: Students at SRJK (T) Tepi Sungai began the school term yesterday without a "school".

The 150 pupils and 11 teachers had to make the best of "classes" at Klang Municipal Council storerooms along Jalan Tepi Sungai.

They had been using a single classroom and open space at the nearby school premises until fire damaged the building on Dec 22.

They could not use the other classrooms in the building as termites had eaten their way through the structure. But this, and the rain yesterday, did not dampen their spirits.

Parent-Teacher Association deputy chairman N.Subramaniam said conditions at the school were far from ideal but the future looked brighter with plans for a new three-storey block of classrooms.

"Work on the project is scheduled to start and we hope the building will be completed as soon as possible."

Subramaniam said a ground-breaking ceremony will be held later this month on the 0.7 hectare site.

Education Ministry parliamentary secretary Datin Paduka P. Komala Devi visited the school yesterday.

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