82 Tamil schools to be relocated ? GOOD OR BAD IDEA?

It’s a good news for the Indians in this country whereas government had decided to re-located Tamil School in this country. Some may said that , It’s a wrong move as by doing this the number of tamil school will be decrease but we should look at it in other perspective as well. There were lots of Tamil school in estates where the number of students are really small. This type of school really doesn’t help to develop our community in a bigger scale. We shouldn’t think isn’t easy to handle small number of students where it could make the students to understand the lesson better, so it will be better to teach the small number of students rather than teaching a big group of students. Some may have this kind of thoughts but me as an educator, this type of problem shouldn’t aroused if the teacher capable to attract students interest in learning their respecting subjects. If a tamil movie could attract hundreds of its audiences to pay their attention, isn’t possible for the teachers to do the same? I’m saying this because for me I always believe that academic education alone will not help our community to reach greater heights in terms of achievement in the future. As we all know that, nowadays our communities are known as one of the biggest problem maker in this country. I don’t want to elaborate more in this issue but we rather talk on what we could see in reality regarding this. Do we aware that nowadays, our students are really left behind in curricular activities? Last time, we could see that every evening in our estates fields, housing area’s fields and even school fields were filled with our community youngsters where they used to play football. Those days there were lots of Indian participated in the National and International Level Athletics as Dato Jegatheesan, Ramakrishnan, G.Shanti and many more, great football players, like K.Gunalan, Sanbagamaran, V.Arumugam, Santokh Sing, Badminton legend, Punch Gunalan and many more great Indian sports personalities. But we’re unable to produce these type of sports personalities anymore? It’s all because in Tamil School nowadays there were unable to teach them these kind of skillful games due to lack of sports equipment in school. Even if they got also, they are unable to execute a program that suits the students capabilities. More worst, besides sports participation, our Tamil students participations in co-curia activities or competitions like Debate competitions, Story Telling Competitions, Public Speaking, Choral Speaking are very discouraging. When we ask them what was the reason, it was purely because of lack of students and same answer will remain if we ask why never send students to football competitions, netball competitions, athletics and so on. Since when we are going to give these kind of excuses even when we aware that we already far left behind? Cinese community doesn’t have this kind of community as they always doesn’t depend much on Government allocation as their PIBG fund could help them even to build a new building. But as far as we know, we as an Indian always doesn’t have the second thought to give the temple donation but will not have the same kind of mentality when it comes to donate to the tamil school development. People are complaining that Sekolah Kebangsaan will always get lots of allocation from the government in terms of extra tuition. Trust me or not as Im teaching in SK School, extra classes in SK School was paid by organizations like Pusat Urus Zakat. Zakat money was not funded by Government but it was gathered through the money contributed by Muslims where it was a compulsory tax for them that will be deducted from their salary.  Are we ready to give this kind of contributions to our community where we don’t need to depend on government alone? If yes, could Malaysian Indian representatives for the government could come up with a better plan that could aroused Indians interest in helping their own community as many Indians out there still in pain after the disappointment wit certain holdings and Educational Development Institute issues. If no, better we grab this opportunity for the sake of Tamil School Education benefits. I’m not representing any parties or alliance here, just telling this based on what I could see and the feedback I gain from the people around me. Not to hurt anyone here, but changes, a lot of changes needed to make a good progress among our community. If not, one day the number of Tamil School re-locate in the future will be higher.  We don't need a Tamil School without proper facilities and equipment in every estate. We could opt for one, or two 'A' grade Tamil School for every district where it could provide more conducive learning environment with facilities needed. More allocation will be given for this kind of school and parents will be more motivated and confident in sending their children to get Tamil Education. So, small allocation that had provided to the small tamil school before could be used to provide them a free shuttle bus services to send the kids to school.

Regards,
Jaya Gobee Arumugam

P/S : Just a simple question because until now I don’t have the answer, if anyone could answer this rationally…
If a Tamil or Chinese school students failed in either or both Bahasa Malaysia (Pemahaman) or (Penulisan), will be sent to re-move class first before entering Form 1, that’s fact and still practiced in this country till to date. What about SK school students who failed in either or both Bahasa Malaysia (Pemahaman) or (Penulisan) as the majority of the student’s mother tongue is Bahasa Malaysia ? I don’t whether its too sensitive to ask this as I asked this question after saw a characteristic change of a Tamil School student where she got 4A,2B and ID.. D in Bahasa Melayu Penulisan. Since she entered that re-moved class, her marks getting low and her character really changed from being outspoken to reserve type of person.