Saturday, July 28, 2007

Empowering the students - quality of schools

How do truely empower the students we pick? This is something we have talked extensively in the past. One thing is the quality of the schools.

One option was to pick students in tamil medium government schools. We are in no doubt that this is where we have the best chance of finding the most financially deserving students. We can then transfer these students to better schools. Are there good tamil medium schools in Coimbatore? Kumar uncle is looking into this right now. I'll post the names of these schools soon...

2 comments:

Hari said...

Like the feel of the blog environment.. Hope to see some activity here.. Will wait for your list of schools and for the next update ! --Archana

Roy said...

Further comments from Kumar uncle in support of Tamil medium schools...

"I was told that students studying in English medium in government school are mostly dropouts from private English medium schools. If boys with bad conduct and irregular students are sent out of the private schools, then these students will come to government schools only. One teacher told me that even in government school also they will be very careless and will be irregular in studies.

So some teachers told me that if at all we wanted to help, we should help Tamil medium students only. They say that Tamil medium boys are also getting good marks and they also join in prime engineering colleges after plus two.
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