PETALING JAYA: Kluang district education officer Shaharudin Sharif today rubbished an allegation that the Kluang High School in Johor has barred its students from taking Tamil as a optional subject."It is not true. There are two teachers who are still teaching Tamil in that school," said Shaharudin.He was responding to allegations via a phone message to FMT that the school had barred its Indian students from taking Tamil as an optional subject and a teacher has been transferred.
The SMS (short messaging service) read: “Pengetua Sekolah Tinggi Kluang, Johor tidak mahu para pelajar India mengambil bahasa Tamil dalam PMR, SPM dan STPM. Guru Ketua Panitia Bahasa Tamil dipindahkan secara paksa untuk menghapuskan Bahasa Tamil.” (The Kluang High School principal does not want Indian students to take up Tamil language in the PMR, SPM and STPM examinations. Tamil language head teacher has been transferred by force to destroy Tamil language.)Shaharudin said that the school principal Wahid Bijaji has lodged a police report against the anonymous SMS.
Transfer on own accord
Johor executive councillor for unity, human resources, science technology and innovation, M Asojan, also dismissed the allegation.He said that the transfer of a Tamil language teacher was done on the latter's request as there was an "excess of seven teachers in that school."Asojan, who is also the Gambir assemblyman, added that Tamil language was taught within the school schedule instead of being taught as a People's Own Language session.He believed that those spreading the SMS have ill-intentions against the school principal. He said that he attended Ponggal celebrations at that school last year on the invitation of the principal.
Source : http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/02/16/barring-students-from-taking-tamil-its-a-lie/
The SMS (short messaging service) read: “Pengetua Sekolah Tinggi Kluang, Johor tidak mahu para pelajar India mengambil bahasa Tamil dalam PMR, SPM dan STPM. Guru Ketua Panitia Bahasa Tamil dipindahkan secara paksa untuk menghapuskan Bahasa Tamil.” (The Kluang High School principal does not want Indian students to take up Tamil language in the PMR, SPM and STPM examinations. Tamil language head teacher has been transferred by force to destroy Tamil language.)Shaharudin said that the school principal Wahid Bijaji has lodged a police report against the anonymous SMS.
Transfer on own accord
Johor executive councillor for unity, human resources, science technology and innovation, M Asojan, also dismissed the allegation.He said that the transfer of a Tamil language teacher was done on the latter's request as there was an "excess of seven teachers in that school."Asojan, who is also the Gambir assemblyman, added that Tamil language was taught within the school schedule instead of being taught as a People's Own Language session.He believed that those spreading the SMS have ill-intentions against the school principal. He said that he attended Ponggal celebrations at that school last year on the invitation of the principal.
Source : http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/02/16/barring-students-from-taking-tamil-its-a-lie/
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so you can study your ancestral language in a foreign land. But we can't study the same in our own land, i mean your ancestral land.
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