The draft Law on Teachers is being submitted to the National Assembly for consideration, in which the issue of extra teaching is of particular concern to public opinion.
Evidence of the need for extra teaching and learning
On November 18, 2024, Ho Chi Minh City National University announced a research report on the lives of preschool and primary school teachers, conducted in Binh Thuan, Tay Ninh and Hau Giang. The survey results of 12,500 participating teachers showed that 25.4% of teachers said they taught extra classes in school and 8.2% taught extra classes outside of school.
Tutoring mainly focuses on subjects such as Math, Literature, English, Physics, Chemistry. In particular, teachers teach 8.6 hours/week at primary level, 13.75 hours/week at secondary level and 14.91 hours/week at high school level.
Teachers participating in the survey said that although the basic salary has increased from 1.8 million to 2.34 million VND, teachers' income only meets 51.8% of their family's monthly spending needs. Teachers with less than 10 years of experience in the profession assessed that their income only meets an average of 45.7% of their family's monthly spending needs.
With this reality, the survey results show that 63.57% of teachers expressed their desire to legalize extra teaching, including extra teaching at home and extra teaching online, to increase income from their own abilities.
From the perspective of parents, there are still many opinions that students are forced to take extra classes in many unclear ways, causing overload for them when they have to study many shifts and causing financial costs for their families.
Ms. Hoang Van Anh, a parent of a student at Nguyen Cong Tru Secondary School (Ba Dinh District, Hanoi), said that her child still goes to extra classes because of the need to review for the 10th grade exam because Hanoi can only meet the demand of 60% of secondary school graduates to study at public high schools.
This is completely voluntary, stemming from the needs of parents. However, Ms. Van Anh said that there are still many students who have to attend extra classes with teachers in class and at outside centers.
This shows that in class, teachers have not been able to convey all the knowledge to students or the class time is not enough for teachers to do so.
In particular, many parents are upset because their children do not get extra classes, so their assessment results are low, and the test content is not taught in class but only in extra classes.
Ms. Van Anh proposed that the government should allow licensed educational centers to organize extra classes. If teachers are allowed to teach extra classes on their own, it will be impossible to manage whether it is voluntary or forced, and it will be impossible to collect income tax.
The Ministry of Education advocates banning unethical behavior in private tutoring.
Expressing his opinion on the issue of extra teaching and learning, National Assembly delegate Nguyen Van Canh said that only extra teaching with the purpose of getting grades that do not match real abilities due to the tutor's lack of objectivity is something that needs to be stopped because in reality, the need for extra teaching and learning still exists.
Therefore, the Ministry of Education and Training needs to coordinate with agencies to issue specific regulations as well as management mechanisms for this issue. The draft Law on Teachers needs to have a management mechanism for extra teaching and learning.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son affirmed that the Ministry's policy is not to ban extra tutoring but to ban unethical behaviors in extra tutoring, including "teachers forcing students to take extra tutoring".
Minister Nguyen Kim Son said that the Ministry of Education and Training is developing new regulations, eliminating formal procedures. For example, instead of asking the principal for permission to teach extra classes outside of school with their regular students, teachers can teach but need to make a list of students, report to the principal and commit not to force them.
At the same time, teachers do not use examples, questions, and exercises that have been taught to test and evaluate students.
Agreeing with this measure, National Assembly delegate Nguyen Van Canh proposed that if any educational institution allows its teachers to tutor their own students, the tests there must be randomly taken from a question bank with full difficulty levels before the test is given, accurately reflecting the students' abilities, ensuring fairness for all students.
In addition, the Ministry of Education and Training also proposed to include tutoring in the conditional business sector to avoid distortion, facilitate management, and ensure the rights of both teachers and students.
Source: https://phunuvietnam.vn/can-co-bien-phap-quan-ly-loai-bo-bien-tuong-trong-day-them-20241126143258412.htm
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