{"id":2245,"date":"2008-07-30T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T08:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/07\/30\/dont-merge-schools-says-tamil-youth-bell-club\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T08:20:18","slug":"dont-merge-schools-says-tamil-youth-bell-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/07\/30\/dont-merge-schools-says-tamil-youth-bell-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t merge schools says Tamil Youth Bell Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/7\/29\/nation\/21942771&amp;sec=nation\">call was made<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>He said many estate Tamil schools had fewer than 50 children per school and should be allowed to continue and not merged.<\/p>\n<p>He said the schools&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[112,19,20],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","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=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}