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| Sunday, 11 January 2004 |
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Parents prepare bogus documents to admit children to popular schools - Minister by S. M. Jiffrey Abdeen, Kandy South Group Cor. Parents in connivance with the Grama Niladharis and other relevant officials prepare bogus or forged documents to admit their children to popular schools which may deny an eligible child living closer to a particular school from gaining admission said the Central Province Minister of Education, Social Services, Estate Infrastructure and Animal Husbandry Velusamy Radhakrishnan. He made these observations when he addressed the media at the Auditorium of the Ministry at Getambe in Kandy. He said that this kind of forgery could be eliminated only by upgrading the facilities of schools outside the city limits and also making them popular so that the parents will not clamour for the popular schools. As an initial step for an example, there are four schools in Aruppola which is about three miles from Kandy and within the city limits with two housing schemes in the vicinity. They are two boys schools and two girls schools. These schools will be amalgamated to make one big girls school and one big boys school and these schools will have all the facilities that a popular school will have including sports and library facilities. Thus the parents will send their children to these schools if they are made to aware that these schools had been upgraded. This will reduce congestion in the town schools. Provincial Minister Velusamy Radhakrishnan said that there are 279 schools in the Central Province with less than 65 children having the normal classes. There is a school with just two students. He said that the proposed teacher transfers will be implemented in full as all teachers should serve the mandatory period in the difficult areas and those schools in the difficult areas must be developed. Children are out treasures and they must be nurtured and cared for to make them useful citizens of the country by providing them with a good education. Likewise the estate schools will be also developed. Some schools are over staffed while others are under staffed and some teachers are stagnating in one school for a very long time. This anomaly must be adjusted and balanced. |
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