Gia Lai 38 primary school students in Duc Co district have not gone to school because their parents think the new school is 7 km away from home, making it difficult to pick them up and drop them off.
Duc Hung village is located in the border area of Ia Nan commune with 218 households. There is a school of Cu Chinh Lan Primary School for primary school students.
However, from the 2023-2024 school year, students in grades 1, 2, and 4 will attend the main school in Ia Chia village (Ia Nan commune), about 7 km from the school, while the remaining grades will continue to study at the village school. Parents of 38 students disagreed with this change and did not send their children to school.
Many parents who work as rubber tappers say that they often work from midnight to dawn, and in the morning they have to rush to feed their children so they can go to school far away, which is very hard. The children study five sessions a week, not to mention two afternoons of English, IT, and PE, so taking them to and from school takes a lot of time.
Parents arrive at Duc Hung Village School on September 9. Photo: Ngoc Oanh
Mr. Ta Quang Dieu, Principal of Cu Chinh Lan Primary School, said that due to a lack of teachers, the school was forced to merge and plans to continue moving grades 3 and 5 from the village school to the main school next year.
According to him, students at the headquarters will have a better educational environment, with additional functional classrooms for IT, English, Music, Fine Arts, etc.
"We have explained the advantages and disadvantages so that parents can understand and have a view of the long-term benefits, but because they have long been used to having their children study near home, they are still confused and have not accepted it," said Mr. Dieu.
In the 2023-2024 school year, Gia Lai is short of about 6,000 teachers. Of which, Duc Co district alone is short of 254 people according to demand and 16 teachers according to the payroll.
Mr. Siu Luynh, Vice Chairman of Duc Co District People's Committee, said that merging and consolidating classes is a major policy of the education sector. The district has directed students in Duc Hung village to study at Kpa Klong Primary School (Ia Nan commune), more than 3 km away from the village, but parents still do not agree. Ia Nan commune police have contacted the contact point to rent a car, and the school is also ready to send staff to go with the children on the car to instruct them on safe driving habits.
"We share the difficulties with families in Duc Hung village, but the main school has many advantages. Through advocacy, many parents have agreed to let their children go to class," said Mr. Luynh.
Some parents objecting to school mergers due to inconvenience in pick-up and drop-off often occurs sporadically at the beginning of the new school year. In Da Nang, 54 students in Nam Yen village, Hoa Bac commune, Hoa Vang district, have not been able to go to school despite the new spacious school because it is far from home (2-3 km). Similar situations have occurred in Nghe An, Ha Tinh in previous years...
Meanwhile, the merger and re-planning of school networks has been implemented in localities for many years. This policy aims to streamline the management team, teachers and staff, focusing on investment to improve the quality of education. Main schools often have better facilities, meeting the teaching and learning requirements of the new general education program (2018).
Ngoc Oanh
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