| | Tamil Schools | Year | # Schools | # Students | 1938 | 547 | 22,820 | 1947 | 741 | 33,945 | 1956 | 877 | 47,407 | 1957 | 888 | 50,766 | 1958 | 874 | 53,098 | 1959 | 840 | 56,297 | 1960 | 815 | 60,726 | 1961 | 784 | 63,917 | 1962 | 745 | 66,504 | 1963 | 720 | 67,649 | 1964 | 704 | 69,362 | 1965 | 700 | 72,828 | 1966 | 695 | 76,350 | 1967 | 686 | 79,203 | 1968 | 666 | 81,428 | 1969 | 662 | 80,750 | 1970 | 657 | 79,278 | 1971 | 647 | 77,192 | 1972 | 635 | 78,758 | 1973 | 631 | 78,854 | 1974 | 618 | 79,674 | 1975 | 612 | 80,404 | 1976 | 606 | 80,103 | 1977 | 606 | 78,841 | 1978 | 600 | 77,525 | 1979 | 596 | 77,013 | 1980 | 589 | 73,958 | 1981 | 583 | 73,513 | 1982 | 579 | 73,897 | 1983 | 575 | 74,255 | 1984 | 571 | 75,028 | 1985 | 566 | 76,653 | 1986 | 555 | 81,051 | 1987 | 553 | 83,228 | 1988 | 548 | 87,837 | 1989 | 548 | 92,243 | 1990 | 547 | 96,120 | 1991 | 544 | 99,876 | 1992 | 543 | 102,493 | 1993 | 541 | 104,638 | 1994 | 539 | 103,963 | 1995 | 538 | 102,776 | 1996 | 531 | 99,525 | 1997 | 530 | 98,072 | 1998 | 530 | 94,907 | 2000 | 524 | 89,175 | 2006 | 523 | 101,972 | 2007 | 523 | 105,618 | | source: Tamil Nesan 28/09/07 |
| Cultural identity and national integration
K. Arumugam, The Sun 09/01/07
Can we see better national integration if Tamil and Chinese medium primary schools are abolished? The Education Minister is of the view that national primary schools have to be the anchor for national integration, by making the national schools as "the school of choice" for all Malaysians. | Don't Forsake Tamil Schools
Vasanthi Ramachandran
New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Sept. 16, 2002 | Tamil schools, sacrificial lambs of a political agenda
Prof P RamasamyTuesday April 10 Malaysiakini 12:17pm, Tue: Of late, discourses on the nature and development of Indian community in Malaysia have invariably touched on the issue of Tamil schools in the country. One view is that Tamil schools given the poor performance of students, their lack of modern facilities, their location in the interior and others are hindering the progress of the Indian community. | Run-down Tamil schools fading into the past
V.Thomas, Sungai Buloh, The Sun, 13/09/07
The days of dilapidated estate schools with unqualified teachers, indifferent parents and unmotivated students are fast fading away to be replaced by more urban-based schools with dedicated teachers and headmasters, IT and other facilities and various well-intentioned groups and organisations helping to raise the standard of education in Tamil schools. | ..... while I recognise the zeal and commitment of certain individuals for Tamil school education, I disagree with their narrow focus on only primary education as the solution to the community's social mobility. The educational and human resource development of the community has to be reviewed from pre-school to postgraduate qualifications | | |
| | | Judge George’s prejudiced Tamil School Trial
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Former appeal court Judge George, who is not a Tamil but of Malayalee linguistic origin, refused to retract and apologies for his call to abolish Tamil schools according to Malaysia Nanban. Consequently, a police report has been made. | Police report against former Judge
Wednesday, September 05, 2007 Opposition Member of Parliament Kulasegaran and lawyer Sivanesan will be lodging a police report against former appeal court judge C.V. George today at 2:00 PM at brickfields police station, according toMalaysia Nanban report. George apparently told in an interview of a monthly magazine to shut down all Tamil Schools in Malaysia. The paper did not elaborate the rational for George to say that.
However, the irony is,Kulasegaran, who said he was glad he did not go to Tamil, is the one jumping to make the police report.
“All those friends of mine who went to a Tamil school are now either lorry drivers, laborers or in prison”, said Kulasegaran, five years ago.
Shall we make a police report against Kula? | | | |
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