School Location: Lilburn Tamil School, Duluth Middle School, 3200 Pleasant Hill Road, GA, 30096
School hours: Every Friday, 7:25 PM to 8:45 PM
Princpal: Ravi Palaniappan
Vice Principal: Vani Manoharan
For details please contact:
Ravi Palanippan at raviclri@hotmail.com (678-799-1212)
or Vani Manoharan at vanimano1@hotmail.com (404-538-0720)
IV. School Name:GATS - Marietta Tamil School (MTS)
School Location: Dodgen Middle School, 1725 Bill Murdock Rd Marietta, GA 30062
School hours: Every Friday from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Principal: Muralidaran Sundaresan
Vice Principal: Kannan Rajappa
For details please contact:
muralid4ran@gmail.com (678-636-9875) OR
rakannan@gmail.com (404-918-4981)
Open House / Registration Date:
V. School Name: Tamil Arivu Kalai Koodam
School Location: Hindu Temple. 6450 Schomburg Road Columbus, GA 31909
School hours: Every Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Princpal: Ravi Muthusamy
Vice Principal: Senthilnathan Muthuram
For details please contact:
For details please contact ravimuthusamy@hotmail.com(706-442-6646)
GATS Center For American Tamils
A first step for Glorious Tamil Culture for All
Why are we teaching Tamil
• Tamil is the basis for Tamil Culture
• Our Children have to interact with people back in Home
• Good for Creativity and Brian Development to know more language
• Above all our Mother Tongue
OUR AIM
• Bring common platform in Teaching Tamil in GA and later stage to North America
• GATS could act like TOEFL and SAT boards
• Have yearly exam for each grade.
• Finalizing syllabus for the exam
• Have graduation in Tamil Language
• Get accreditation and credit hours for Tamil Language from government To benefit for the college admission.
Points for discussion
Syllabus. – Three possible syllabus we could select or combination of all three
• Tamil Nadu government text books – Freely available for use to teach and for exam
• Tamil Virtual University materials ‐ Freely available for use to teach. Also they have 6 levels of exams and US centers for exam
• Singapore government Tamil education books – We need permission to use their materials
(copyright). I think it could be done.
• Get accreditation for Tamil with Georgia – In CA people has done this before. Getting help from them
– Find out State government or school district has the authority to give accreditation.
• Have yearly exam for each grade.
• Have graduation in Tamil Language
Please participate in our discussion, join as a volunteer and help future generation
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