UPSR Tamil School 7As’: PKR mandore’s school bag politics

It was reported that in Selangor alone 236 Tamil school pupils had scored 7As’ whereas the maximum As’ in a national school can only be 5As’. But the Selangor state government plays “school bag” politics through their Indian Exco mandore and rewards these 236 students with school bags, RM50.00, a certificate and some basic stationary. (22/12/09 TN page 7, MO page 11 and MN page 4)

But what ever happens to the cream of these students after this school bag “mega fanfare” Mandor politics.

Similarly what ever happens to the cream of the Indian PMR, SPM and STPM top scoring students whose results are amplified and glorified in especially the three Tamil dailies on a daily basis and lasting for a few weeks after their results are announced? In reality they are excluded from entering the elite schools, MRSM, fully residential schools, Institute Aminuddin Baki, Malay College Kuala Kangsar, Matriculation courses and denied foreign and local government scholarships besides being denied local government University places albeit to a lesser extent. The Tamil dailies does not report these ‘rewards’ as almost none are given to the Indians.

We hereby call upon the Selangor State government to instead forthwith build a fully residential MRSM Tamil College to cater for the 817 7As’ high achieving elite Tamil school pupils nationwide to pave the way to end UMNO’s racism in Malaysia. In the meantime the Selangor State government is also to undo the injustices done by UMNO to the poor but elite Indian students for over the last 52 years should award these 236 7As’ Tamil school pupils full Yayasan Selangor Scholarships for them to study at elite schools in Singapore until our proposed MRSM Tamil Selangor is completed. These 817 7As’ Tamil schools pupils and the 110,000 Tamil school pupils in the 523 Tamil schools nationwide would be motivated to further excel in their studies and also help contribute to the nation’s brain power. Why exclude these Indian pupils in the first place?

We note that there is MRSM for PDRM (police), ATM (army) and Felda Why not MRSM (Tamil) in Selangor as in Universiti Industri Selangor (Unisel) that was built by the Selangor State government.

Your Faithfully,

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P.Uthayakumar.

Secretary General (pro-tem)