Teacher asks for money to buy laptop and fears "which child's parent?"

Parents pay for their children to go to school, yet a teacher who has a job and a salary right at a school in the center of Ho Chi Minh City brazenly asks parents for money to buy a laptop.

There, teacher TPH announced that she would not collect funds, but… she lost her laptop so she asked parents to donate a laptop.

She collected the money, she gave herself the price of the personal computer she needed to buy, the amount she asked her parents for, the amount she would pay in compensation, and the affirmation: "I'll take this laptop too, parents."

When someone voted no, the teacher asked the parent for money to buy a laptop and asked: "Which child's parent?" (Screenshot).

"I bought the laptop, I will let you know the rest. And I would like to have this laptop too, parents"; "I said I would like to take the black one for 11 million to run data quickly, parents support me with 6 million, I will compensate with 5 million. I thank you parents"... Those are the messages from Ms. H informing about asking parents for money to buy a laptop.

But it doesn't stop at a teacher "begging" parents for money to buy laptops. In this case, the most terrible thing is that one side is begging but the other side, if they don't give it, they won't be at peace.

She asked her parents for money to buy personal items, but she knew she had the upper hand and showed it clearly through her words and interactions.

When there are parents who disagree with the "agree" or "disagree" vote she created, she is the one asking but she asks the person who disagrees "whose child's parent is she?"

She asked for money from the parents, but from the beginning to the end, she directed and acted on her own, arranged and closed the deal herself. When someone disagreed - although it was clear that the parents had the right to disagree - she turned to ask "whose parent is that?"

This incident, the teacher's behavior and attitude are the clearest manifestations of the two words "voluntary" in school that have caused pain for a long time.

Called support, voluntary but if parents do not volunteer, do not support, they will be named and shamed immediately.

The naming and shaming here is always associated with which student's parent they are. This hits the biggest fear of parents, the fear that if they do not volunteer, their child will receive "special care".

Parents pay for their children's education, but now, not only tuition fees, they are facing a series of voluntary fees in schools.

Messages from parents in Ho Chi Minh City discussing buying microphones, printer ink, standing fans and replacing computer cables according to the teacher's "wish" in a previous incident (Photo: HN).

A teacher openly asking parents for money to buy personal items like Ms. TPH’s case can be considered rare. Therefore, when this incident happened and even when the management agencies intervened to resolve it, many people still did not believe this story was true.

But let's face it, asking parents for money in schools in one way or another, especially voluntary donations, is not small and not rare.

Many schools have created many strange income and expenditures. Some have TV maintenance fees, campus renovation fees, and a class in Nghe An once offered a contribution of 300,000 VND/student to choose a homeroom teacher.

Let me remind you of the incident of a class fund of over 300 million VND in a first grade class of an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh City that shocked public opinion last year. From the cost of renovating the classroom of over 220 million VND, plus the "combo" of painting tables and chairs, tiling 5.5 million VND, microphone 1.5 million, Internet 1.6 million... along with all the other expenses.

Later, the management agency pointed out that 15/17 expenses on this list were in violation of regulations.

The story of "begging" is not strange when at the beginning of the school year, many schools actively "complain about poverty and hardship" from the roof, the curtains, the electrical system, every year the air conditioner, the air conditioner... It is not much different from the scene of teacher H. complaining about losing her laptop.

Not only is it a matter of money and income and expenditure, but the story of volunteering in many schools is that students do not have the right to choose.

In parent meetings, there are often bowed heads and silence from parents (Photo: LL).

Voluntary but not voluntary as Ms. H. questioned "whose parent is that?" is no different from some schools that require students who do not register for extra classes to submit a request and meet with the principal for resolution.

"Which child's parent?", the teacher's question asking parents for money to buy laptops not only explains many voluntary payments in schools.

That question also explains why many parents bow their heads at parent-teacher meetings; it also explains why they don't dare to speak up or complain about unfair fees and issues in schools.

Because behind the parents are the children…

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/co-giao-xin-tien-mua-laptop-va-noi-so-phu-huynh-be-nao-20240929063823864.htm