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School that ensures educational career

M. Balaganessin

Care: Teachers of Government High School in Maruthanthalai village near Pudukottai taking a special class for tenth standard students on Sunday.

PUDUKOTTAI: Schools offering special coaching to SSLC candidates may be a usual phenomenon, but the strategy adopted at the Government High School in Maruthanthalai, an interior village about 15 km from here, stands out in more than one aspect.

As the students hailing from economically weaker families of quarry workers are prone to seek errand jobs in the night, the school authorities offer special coaching in the night for three months from January.

The coaching programme starts by 6.45 p.m. and ends by 8.30 p.m. While girls are allowed to go home, boys are made to stay at the school, to prevent them from working in the quarries in the night to supplement their parental income. Sensing the care by the school teachers, villagers too extend their cooperation to them.

Food is being supplied since January to 49 students, including 24 girls who sit for the public examination this year.

With two days to go for the Science examination to be held on Tuesday, the Headmaster of the school A. Soosai, along with three other teachers, ensured that the students got their doubts cleared at a special class on Sunday.

The students hail from villages including Vaagaipatti, Manickampatti, Kallampatti, Karyanallur, Madhiyanallur, Irumbali, Kadanipatti and Pudupatti – all quarry zones in and around Maruthanthalai.

Teachers N. Sivakumar, R. Prabakaran and K. Periyasamy, who were giving useful tips on certain critical questions in Science, said that this was one of the important subjects to which teachers paid special attention while providing coaching. Students stayed at the school on Sunday, even without attending the annual festival at a nearby temple in Narthamalai, he said.

The president of the Village Education Committee, S. Malaiyappan and the village panchayat vice-president Marimuthu said that the school has become a neighbour’s envy in the peripheral region.

The villagers were grateful to the school authorities’ concern for the educational career of their wards.

To make learning of English an easy process, the Headmaster had prepared a guide on grammar in a more simplified form and distributed it to the students free of cost.

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