{"id":415,"date":"2007-07-19T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2007\/07\/19\/ns-cm-merge-schools-with-low-enrolment\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T01:30:18","slug":"ns-cm-merge-schools-with-low-enrolment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2007\/07\/19\/ns-cm-merge-schools-with-low-enrolment\/","title":{"rendered":"NS CM &#8211; merge schools with low enrolment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Schools with few pupils used to merge<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/metro\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/7\/19\/central\/18305609&amp;sec=central\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<p>VERNACULAR schools with low enrolments in Negri Sembilan have been told to merge for the benefit of pupils.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said it was pointless to continue operating such schools as they could not get the best in terms of facilities or teachers.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me make it clear first that this is my personal opinion. If you want the best for your children, you must be prepared to swallow your pride,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"7\" width=\"234\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/archives\/2007\/7\/19\/central\/m_11mohamad.jpg\" border=\"0\"> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>The best: Mohamad presenting the best managed PTA award to Tunku Kurshiah College PTA committee member Dr Mohamad Sallehin Abu Bakar in Port Dickson.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Citing an example, he said there were 15 Tamil schools in Jempol alone which had less than 100 pupils each.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally feel that these should be reduced to five or six,&#8221; he said, adding that it was also difficult for the Education Ministry to send a complete set of teachers to such schools especially when there was a short-age.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>However, he said, there were attempts from the Chinese community to merge and relocate schools with low enrolments.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Mohamad said there were instances where students from some vernacular schools were unable to read or write upon entering Form 1.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is happening and it is sad. Since these vernacular are feeder schools, they eventually affect the academic performance of the secondary schools they eventually go to,&#8221; he said, adding that he had conveyed this to representatives from political parties and associations in the state.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Mohamad was speaking to reporters after presenting prizes to schools with the best managed Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) in the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools with few pupils used to merge source VERNACULAR schools with low enrolments in Negri Sembilan have been told to merge for the benefit of pupils.&nbsp; Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said it was pointless to continue operating such schools as they could not get the best in terms of facilities or teachers.&nbsp; &#8220;Let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,24,20],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}