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Marginalised children neglected by proposed education reforms: Mano
The education of the plantation based school children and any such marginalised segment need affirmative approaches as part of the short-term goal. It is missing in the proposed education reforms, Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) leader Mano Ganesan said today.
"National integration and an affirmative approach towards the children of the plantation schools are the two prime missing points in the proposed reforms.
"The all-important principle that 'education shall be the vital tool for building national integration' (SriLankanism here) is not recognised in the proposed curriculum and structural changes. There are no intermediary short-term goals, recognising the fact that the ground is not even,' MP Mano Ganesan said.
"The MalaiyahaTamil community has been a late starter. The process of bringing the plantation schools into the national grid began only in 1976, and even today it is incomplete. C.W.W. Kannangara's educational reforms did not reach them. This community was sidelined by Kannagara," he added.
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