SHAH ALAM, Jan 5 (Bernama) -- Annually about 45 per cent 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 Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.
He said this could be due to a lack of support from the parents of the pupils who were mainly in the lower income group or absence of an effective mechanism help them achieve better performance.
He said this when handing over financial aid from the state government to Tamil schools at the Selangor state secretariat building here today.
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.
Khalid said there were 97 Tamil schools with an enrolment of 34,000 pupils in Selangor and that 80 per cent of the pupils came from families in the lower income group.
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I thought MIC was doing all it could to upgrade the children's performance in UPSR . They have come up with books and whats not for this purpose. I'm shock to read the percentage of children not doing well . I hope this is not another propaganda to shut down tamil schools. They relevent authority must do something before it is too late.
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