{"id":6280,"date":"2010-01-05T23:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2010-01-05T23:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:51:28","slug":"selangor-mb-worried-about-tamil-schools-upsr-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2010\/01\/05\/selangor-mb-worried-about-tamil-schools-upsr-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Selangor MB worried about Tamil schools UPSR results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/1\/5\/nation\/20100105181447&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Worrying<\/strong><\/a> is good start, dear MB. Question now is, what&#8217;s next? How about yearly allocation of RM10 million and land allocation\/conversion for 5 schools per year?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 45% of Tamil School pupils in Selangor do not fare well in the  Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examination and this was something  that had the state government worried, said Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul  Khalid Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>He said this could be due to a lack of support  from parents who were mainly in the lower income group or the absence of  an effective mechanism to help them achieve better performance.<\/p>\n<p>He  said this when handing over financial aid from the state government to  Tamil schools at the Selangor state secretariat building here on  Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>At the function, 31 Tamil schools received financial aid  totalling RM704,000 while Parent-Teacher Associations of Tamil schools  received a total of RM508,000 in aid.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid said there were 97  Tamil schools with an enrolment of 34,000 pupils in Selangor and that  80% of the pupils came from families in the lower income group. &#8212;  Bernama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The funds given (704k\/31 schools) is about RM22,710 per school.\u00a0 If same number of PTAs got the 508k allocation (508k\/31 = RM16,387), then its RM39,097 per school. Not sure how that amount can help the schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its clear that Tamil school problem needs a massive and immediate action from the Education Ministry and state governments in terms of financial allocation, land procurement, school relocation, and school status conversion, but it had not been happening as fast as it should be. Instead, its worse than snail&#8217;s pace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In spite of all the shortcomings and problems faced by Tamil schools, 55% have done well in UPSR. That&#8217;s something to ponder about. And given the effort by the schools, parents, community and NGOs, hopefully the percentage increases year after year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worrying is good start, dear MB. Question now is, what&#8217;s next? How about yearly allocation of RM10 million and land allocation\/conversion for 5 schools per year? About 45% of Tamil School pupils in Selangor do not fare well in the Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examination and this was something that had the state government [&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":[19,84,225,147,53,20],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-funds","tag-politicians","tag-selangor","tag-student-statistics","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","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=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}