Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email The call was made by National Council of Tamil Youth Bell Club president P. Ponniah, who urged the Education Ministry not to deregister schools with 50 or fewer children.
He said many estate Tamil schools had fewer than 50 children per school and should be allowed to continue and not merged.
He said the schools’ management should open the schools to families in nearby new housing estates. He said that at present many parents were forced to send their children to national schools, as there were no Tamil schools nearby and also because of the transportation problems.
He urged political parties to hold talks with the Ministry in opening new Tamil schools in housing estates with Indian majority. He said this would ensure that the number of Tamil schools in this country would not be reduced.
I think schools with fewer students can be merge or relocated…as the students deserve better facilities and proper learning environment.
We cannot always see tamil schools as a tool to preserve our indian community identity in this country…children education is also important so deplorable tamil schools with few students should be relocated or merged.
Local community people should support and render their assistance instead of opposing it and try to potray themselves as community champion…i understand some estate schools is a legacy for some people and because of its sentimental values they will come up and oppose the school relocation….in some places there is no indian estate workers at all and school will be still standing there with 10 or 12 students
We need better,strategically located tamil schools with good teachers so that our students will benefit from it…so merging of schools is a good idea.
i think mergin schools will lead to fewer and fewer schools until we have maybe just 100 or less schools. Actually, the schools can be relocated to many places that have substantial community presence. To enlarge an existing schools is not feasible at times. For example, SJKT A is having 500 students and no more place to build new building without sacrificing the school field. Demand for place in the school is high. What can be done is to relocate a school in johor, SJKT B that has only 5 students to the area that SJKT A serves. So, we build SJKT B there. This is some thing that we can learn from the Chinese community. For them its pantang to close even one school. They even run SJKC Damansara by themselves for last few year in defiance of Education Ministry. They will fight tooth and nail. But for us, at the first mention of tamil school is to be closed, all clap hands and angguk only when announcement is made. I think we will only realise what we have lost once there’s no more tamil schools in malaysia. At that time, nasi sudah jadi bubur.
I got to agree with Farmer 100%.
We need to focus on quality and NOT quantity.
As for relocation, we need to be ask ourselves where we want to relocate these schools to. The Chinese perhaps need relocation since most of their schools are over-crowded and far exceed Tamil school students in numbers. In many new areas there are no Chinese schools so they might be justified in asking for relocation. But I am not sure if we have the need for relocation for Tamil schools.
However, even though I am from Tamil school myself, as a Malaysian I think the best solution is the national school with Tamil taught as a subject. This will help national integration and better facilities and competition for our kids.
Killer,
Agreed on “However, even though I am from Tamil school myself, as a Malaysian I think the best solution is the national school with Tamil taught as a subject.
even though i am not from tamil song, i took tamil for S.R.P. They had a part-time teacher who comes in after school to teach tamil. Don’t really know if they’re still doing it.