Austin Tamil School’s pre-kindergarten program

In the year 2012 in Austin, the capital city of the state of Texas in the United States, a Tamil class was started at Sukanthi’s home with 5 children. Then Sukandhi himself would search for all the textbooks on the internet and bring them to take the class.

Then in 2013, Mahendran and Anbu, together with Sukanti, tried to start this Tamil class as a non-profit organization for the benefit of all Tamil people of Austin and named it Austin Tamil School, registered and started with 100 students. One of the most special things is that all the teachers working in this school are 100 percent volunteers.

Students studying in the United States are required to earn foreign language credit during their middle (grades 6-9) and high school (grades 9-12). Most of them usually study French and Spanish and buy only credit for it.

It was only then that the Austin Tamil School administration got an idea. That idea is why we should not establish recognition of Tamil language among American schools and give Tamil credit to students studying Tamil. They immediately started researching what to do about it and worked with a 3rd party agency called Cognia to make Austin Tamil School an accredited school and successfully announced it as an accredited school in March-2018. Through this, Tamil school students are able to acquire knowledge of Tamil language when they go to high school.

Austin Tamil School currently has 250 students, 33 teachers and 14 junior volunteers. Also an annual function is held in this school every year. In these programs students from each class will perform on stage based on the Tamil knowledge they have learned. This year also on March-11, the program started off with Tamil Mother Greetings.

Pre-kindergarten children presented a program on Denisai and Dryum Kaniyum.

Kindergarten students in our state! And Valluvam in the word of masala! presented a program called

Level 1 students presented a program on the topic What is true beauty?

Level 2 students tamilanta! And tamil and amudum! They presented a program titled

Level 3 Students are Birbal’s Ten Fools! They presented a program titled

Are you good at level 4 students? Is he bad? They presented a play titled

Level 5 students Chola Pandya speech! And our handiwork! They presented a program titled

Are you a Level 6 student? are we On the topic of Neya Nana style, they discussed Guninidichdu Mnjunjidich Tin Enininji Onu Achni.

Is it easy or difficult for level 7 students to learn Tamil? Presented a panel program on

Level 8 students hosted the whole event.

Austin Tamil School is teaching Tamil through three mediums: Science, Music and Drama. For this, Min Mini Medley, a music group run by school students, presented their musical performance. Also, as a first year initiative of the school, a drama group was formed and they presented a play.

-Shaktisabapathy from Austin

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