{"id":19355,"date":"2013-06-14T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=19355"},"modified":"2013-06-14T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T10:11:17","slug":"sjkt-st-joseph-to-go-online-for-new-school-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2013\/06\/14\/sjkt-st-joseph-to-go-online-for-new-school-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"SJKT St Joseph to go online for new school campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like the school board has decided not to waste time waiting. As for me, I had informed Deputy Minister P Kamalanathan, and according to him “Have been informed sir @mpoobalan<\/a> am waiting for more details and will seek clarification as well.” (ref here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Hopefully the school’s predicament does not become another disaster for MOE and MIC.<\/p>\n

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\"Giving<\/p>\n

Giving way: St Joseph was built in 1924 on wooden stilts. Today, it still stands on the same wooden stilts.<\/p>\n

THE board of governors of an 89-year-old Tamil primary girls school in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur will start an online campaign to push the government to build the promised new school.<\/p>\n

SJK (T) St Joseph\u2019s board of governors chairman Alice Fatimah said as a start, they would initiate a petition and obtain signatures from parents of children studying in the school as well as the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will also set up a Facebook page to create awareness on the campaign,\u2019\u2019 Alice said.<\/p>\n

She expected that things would get moving after the school\u2019s Sports Day on June 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will call for a meeting with the board to discuss details and mobilise the parents,\u2019\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

Alice said the board felt that relying on politicians alone to resolve the issue was not enough.<\/p>\n

\"There<\/div>\n
There isn\u2019t enough space for proper storage, not even for school files.<\/div>\n

\u201cWe have had many politicians visit the school each time the matter was highlighted in the press, but nothing ever got done,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

In January during the distribution of RM100 school assistance by then Deputy Federal Territories Minister Datuk M. Saravanan, parents had requested for a new building with proper facilities.<\/p>\n

Following this, Saravanan announced the Government had allocated three acres of land in the Batu Muda people\u2019s housing project (PPR) where the school would be relocated to.<\/p>\n

He said the land belonged to the Education Ministry, and that it was ideal because it could accommodate a football field too.<\/p>\n

Alice said there had been no news since.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Batu MIC division and its youth wing leaders have pledged to offer assistance and support for the online campaign.<\/p>\n

Batu MIC division chairman Ramanathan Chinnu and youth chief D.R. Pala Kumaran have expressed their willingness to help the school board initiate the online campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a problem that involves the community and concerns the future of our children,\u2019\u2019 Pala said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will push the authorities to speed up the procedures to secure the land promised to the school,\u201d added Ramanathan.<\/p>\n

St Joseph was built in 1924 on wooden stilts. Today, it still stands on the same wooden stilts. The school does not have a canteen, field, library, science lab or computer room.<\/p>\n

Its pupils sit under trees during recess and have been doing their sports activities by the roadside.<\/p>\n

In January,\u00a0StarMetro<\/i>\u00a0reported that the owner of the land had asked the school to relocate.<\/p>\n

The partially-aided school has five classrooms, 135 pupils and 15 teachers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Looks like the school board has decided not to waste time waiting. As for me, I had informed Deputy Minister P Kamalanathan, and according to him “Have been informed sir @mpoobalan am waiting for more details and will seek clarification as well.” (ref here). Hopefully the school’s predicament does not become another disaster for MOE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,24,20],"class_list":["post-19355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19358,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19355\/revisions\/19358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}