P.Espin, Chinnathurai
Fear of God is beginning of wisdom (Pro -1:7). Moreover, Wisdom and knowledge can be
acquired and learnt from a Holy learning centre is known as School. Late Rt. Rev.
Dr.Jerome M. Fernandez (the first Indian bishop of kollam) said that, “better to construct
a school than a church”. Excellent academic results are the sign of an excellent school.
But, the schools in the land of fishermen ; are they excellent? Let us have an close
assessment on plus two results for this year-2012.
AREA
PASS PERCENTAGE
Tamil Nadu
Chennai
Madurai
Tirunelveli
kanyakumari
Nagercoil (division)
Thakkalay (division)
Kuzhithurai ( division)
Kollemkode Govt HSS
St.Francis HSS Vavarai
Sreedevi Girls HSS Kollemcode
Pius XI HSS Thoothoor
St.Alosious HSS Marthandamthurai
86.7
90.7
93.3
89.2
85.4
88.1
87.0
87.0
90.3
86.6
86.5
78.6 (last year 70)
77.4
[Courtesy:-THE HINDU and Vallavilai.com]
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Pius XI Higher secondary School
Group
Average subject percentage(%)
64
Commerce
Maths
48
Science
45
[Courtesy :- Thoothoor.com]
The above tables and charts speak clearly some important facts and figures. Shall we
listen to them, for a while?
 Even though the pass percentage is lesser in compare with other areas, this year
percentage of Pius XI Higher secondary school, has been increased by 8 from
last year to this year. To this improvement, we are obliged to say sincere
congratulations! and thanks to the Teachers, Head master, Mr. Dominic savio
and Correspondent, vicariate vicar Rev. Fr. John D Bosco for their tireless hard
work and commitment.
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 Town and city schools have higher pass percentage than village schools.
Therefore, now, from coastal line some wealthy and educated parents tend to
migrate towards the nearby towns and city to get the best education for their
children at the cost of heavy expenditure and other sacrifices and later they
would be settled there. If this situation continues, in future fishermen community
might be slowly disappeared from the soil of fishfolks.
 Interestingly, pass percentages of Kollemcode Govt School, Sreedevi Girls
School and St.Francis School are higher than St.Alosious HSS and Pius HSS. Is
it because of non fishermen community? more experienced teachers? well
equipped lab facilities? and so on…………. In addition, Pius XI HSS is slightly
better than St.Alosious HSS.
 Unusually, this year the average subject pass percentage of commerce group is
much higher than Maths and Science group. For this mile stone of the results, we
appreciate and congratulate two the best teachers of the school, Maaheen sir
and Thomas sir. However, they belong to other community their dedicated
service to our school is commendable and admirable.
 Moreover, in Pius XI Higher secondary school this year the first and second rank
holders(Geethu and Sugarna) are from poothurai. Well done! to poothurai parish.
 2012 plus two results show that, all over Tamilnadu 2698 students got centum
marks in Mathematics. Unfortunately, the pass percentage of maths and science
group have gone down miserably in Pius XI Higher secondary school. Because
of this, students from our community have very rare chance to get admission to
medical college, govt engineering colleges and also well reputed private colleges
and obviously lose the chance to exploit the privilege of the most backward
community from the govt. This is a matter of grave concern, therefore the
respective teachers and school management can find the measures to improve
the results and reduce the number of failures in the forthcoming year.
Beloved fellow community members,
Life is nothing but trial and error. Let us learn from the past and try to develop ourselves
very fast, because fishermen are fast learning and highly adaptable. Our forefathers
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started to fish with Cattamaran, but now the modern fishermen go for deep sea fishing
with advanced crafts and gears. Like that, the ancestors struggled to learn tamil
alphabets by using their bare fingers and sitting on the open sandy beach, but current
the youngest generation learn English alphabets by using Laptop and smart board in a
sophisticated class room. Such a radical and drastic change has come from the
community schools and college only through education. Hence, irrespective of the
village boundary lines, let us together stretch out helping hands to support our
community educational institutions(schools and college) by various ways and means
and also respect the teachers to get the best education as much as possible for our
future generation as well as sustain mukkuva community on its own traditional land.
Former president, Dr.Abdul Kalam told that a student during his school life upto 10+2
spends 25,000 hours in the school campus. His life is, more influenced by the teachers
and the school environment. Therefore, the school must have the best of teachers with
ability to, teach and love teaching and build moral qualities.
“Think about what we can give for the community,
instead of what we can get from the community”
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