Warm heart of retired teacher's zero-dong class

Classroom full of love

Free classes are organized by Ms. Nhung from 6 pm every afternoon during the week. From the early days of campaigning, it has now become a "custom" that after school in the afternoon, many children with difficult circumstances come to the level 4 house located deep in a small alley on Trung Nu Vuong Street to meet Ms. Nhung.

Ms. Nhung is a retired Literature teacher at Le Do Secondary School (Son Tra District, Da Nang). After 35 years of dedication to the career of "cultivating people", Ms. Nhung left the podium and returned to participate in local social activities.

"While doing social work, I discovered that there were many children in my locality who were in difficult circumstances but were very studious, so I thought I needed to do something. After many sleepless nights, I went to each house to persuade parents to bring their children to me so that I could teach and review them to help them improve," Ms. Nhung confided. And so, in early 2019, the zero-cost class was born.

Retired teacher Dao Thi Nhung's free class has been operating for 5 years now.

Currently, this free tutoring class has about 20 children studying. The children are of different ages, but most are primary school students from grades 1 to 7. These are all students from difficult circumstances, orphans, etc.

For primary school students, Ms. Nhung teaches all subjects, and for secondary school students, she mainly teaches Literature. Although the class has many different ages, Ms. Nhung still builds reasonable lesson plans so that the students' learning process is not interrupted.

During the teaching process, if she sees a student is weak in a certain area, she will focus on tutoring that area carefully. With her love for children and her pure heart, she has ignited a passion for learning for the poor students here.

Ms. Nhung enthusiastically teaches the children each stroke and number.

For the past 5 years, regardless of rain or shine, two brothers Vu Trong Binh (grade 7) and Vu Trong Khang (grade 5) have regularly come to Ms. Nhung's class without missing a single day.

Binh and Khang's circumstances were very difficult. Their parents were divorced, they lived with their elderly grandparents, and they were often sick, so they did not have the conditions to study extra and no one to tutor them, so at that time their academic results were very poor.

"Once, while surveying the life in the residential area, I accidentally learned about the situation of the two children. At that time, because there was no one to tutor them, the two children were very weak in their studies. Feeling so sorry for them, I immediately accepted them into my class to tutor them," Ms. Nhung shared.

Teacher Nhung's certificates of merit are hung all over the wall.

Teacher Nhung was awarded a certificate of merit by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Thanks to Ms. Nhung’s dedicated teaching, the initial scribbles gradually became neater and more beautiful. From being weak students, now the two brothers Binh and Khang have risen to achieve good student results in the past school year.

"Ms. Nhung's class has helped me improve a lot. Not only does she teach for free, she also gives my brother and I books, pens, candy, and even rice. We are very grateful to Ms. Nhung," Binh said with a smile.

Teacher and also "mother"

Not only teaching letters, Ms. Nhung also teaches the children to be polite and have good manners. Before each class, the children are taught to come early to clean the classroom, arrange the tables and chairs, practice the habit of being self-disciplined, independent and knowing how to work.

In particular, at the beginning of each new school year, Ms. Nhung gives each student a new set of books, 20 notebooks and two sets of uniforms from the school they are attending. These clothes are all tailored to the students' exact sizes, not the ready-made kind from stores.

All funds to purchase tools and equipment for the children are taken from the pension and allowances from the social work that Ms. Nhung is doing.

She loves her students like her own children.

To create a comfortable and friendly atmosphere when coming to class, Ms. Nhung often organizes small parties on holidays and Tet in the classroom and gives gifts of cakes for the students to take home. For students who achieve high scores in mid-term and final exams, Ms. Nhung will reward them with small gifts to encourage their spirit. Recently, she also gave 2 bicycles to 2 disadvantaged students in the class so that they can go to school by themselves.

Ms. Nhung confided that, although the rewards were "not worth much", seeing the children happy when receiving gifts made her feel "happy too".

Ms. Nhung also regularly deducts her pension to give school supplies to the children in the zero-cost class.

For nearly 40 years of "ferrying the boat" and quietly offering "honey" to life, for Ms. Nhung, joy is sometimes simply seeing poor students progress day by day and later become kind, loving and useful people for society. That is also the motivation for the old teacher to continue maintaining this class full of love.

When asked when she plans to retire from teaching, Ms. Nhung smiled kindly and said: "Teaching is the joy of my life and I love these students like my own children. Therefore, I will maintain this free class until I no longer have the health to do so."

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/am-long-lop-hoc-0-dong-cua-co-giao-ve-huu-post273078.html