In the ever increasing noise and din of complaints about parking and other issues in our church, many other important matters get drowned out. The plight of School of Languages is one such. The vicar has systematically neglected the School of Languages to such an extend, that if it were not for the dedicated perseverance of the Language teaches it would have been history a long time ago. In order to establish the supremacy of English, the Vicar had to first wipe out any vestiges of Malayalam.
The School of Languages was such an integral part of our children's Sunday church experience up until a few years ago. Whereas the vicar came out swinging for the youth with his English love and youth love only recently, he was very shrewdly laying the ground work for it for some time. He knew before he could effectively ram English down our children's throats he had to remove all and every vestiges of Malayalam. He started with the School of Languages. He marginalized it. The schedules were set so inconveniently that it became almost impossible for children to attend it. This is a school from which more than a generation of our children had any real exposure to their parents' language and culture. Remember, most of the children serving in Sunday Holy Mass are the alumni of the School of Languages.
If the School of Languages were to die, the sole responsibility rests with the vicar. It will be a great trajedy for our community. It will be such a loss for our children.
It will be to our benefit, if responsible parents wake up to the reality. It is our children's life and future that are being distorted by this demented schemer.
3 comments:
He is like Judas, betraying the people. We were led to believe that the new cathedral was for the preservation of our rite and our culture. Looks like we were duped yet again. I am sure the youth especially those in grade-school age would be willing to learn Malayalam if given the opportunity. Unfortunately, the "leaders" think they know better.
Who are you Voice? I appreciate your dedication and commitment to this blog. Wish you all the best.
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
Sunday is a religious day and I am all for the Malayalam and school of languages etc.
However, the point is.. people come to church for a HolyMass with faith oriented objectives.
School fo Languages can be on Saturday and whoever interested they can come there and there will be amble parking spaces too..
Come on Voice - Write something worthwhile.
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