No Tamil classes during school hours

This is the complaint made by parent K.Varatharaju about SMK Ahmad Boestaman in Setiawan (The Star 14/01/10 at page N 55).

But even in mid 1990s’ then Prime Minister Dr Mahathir had announced that Tamil classes would be held in all national schools. Then Prime Minister Badawi repeated the same and now Prime Minister Najib is still “looking into it” even some fifteen years later face this same problem.

Even Urdu is allowed to be thought in same of the United Kingdom schools. But in One Malay-sia, UMNO gives the excuse that there are no written request from ten students and therefore no Tamil classes during school hours. Even after school hours Tamil classes it is made very difficult by UMNO.

All this under Prime Minister Najib Razak’s UMNOs’ One Malay-sia.

P. Uthayakumar.