Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email While MIC is in 7th heaven over the proposed plans to improve the Indian community, I read with interest the news about a Chinese school being relocated from an under-enrolled location in Perak to a very urban Damansara, next January. The school, SJK (C) Chung Hua Ladang Serapoh, located in Parit, will be set up at the original location of SJK (C) Damansara in Section 17, itself a contentious issue since the school was relocated to Tropicana, Damansara in 2001. About 50 over students did not move to the new school, but instead studied in a temporary school in a temple nearby. Well, my focus is not on the Chinese schools issues, but the outcome – a school was relocated from another state due to under-enrollment. End result – number of Chinese schools not reduced.
I think this is the line that MIC and the community to should follow. Rather than accepting meekly the idea to merge schools (repeated in the MIC general assembly as well), MIC and the Education Ministry must do a study and identify areas that lack such schools. Then, relocate the schools to those places. With such move, a newer building will attract parents to send their kids to Tamil schools, since those that are around now usually leaves much to be desired.
By the way, while many of the changes in 9th Malaysian Plan review had figures provided, the part on Indian community were not. Not allocation was mentioned, so we still have to wait for a while.
