Registering to teach at a teaching center requires teachers to pay management costs, rent, and many other fees. Some centers force teachers to 'share' the profits at a fairly high rate, causing tuition fees to increase.
Students at a tutoring facility in Ho Chi Minh City - Photo: NHU HUNG
It is necessary to fairly recognize the bright spots and the problems that need to be resolved related to Circular No. 29/2024/TT-BGDDT, effective from February 14, 2025, regulating extra teaching and learning.
That is the wish of reader Thanh Nguyen when sending this article to Tuoi Tre Online .
Expectations to address the negative aspects of private tutoring
Teachers open classes, use their teaching talent and passion to "sell lung porridge", use the money earned from extra classes to make ends meet. This is a real story.
When salaries are running low to keep up with market prices and teachers' benefits are still modest, it is obvious that teachers work overtime to improve their income and seek a better life.
If tutoring were pure and clean according to the market's supply and demand laws, then perhaps the bad reputation would not have piled up and the public's complaints and indignation would not have "made waves" like they have for so long.
Some negative tutoring classes discriminate between students who attend and those who do not attend classes… which has been a painful issue for many years.
The burden of education costs falls on parents. The pressure of studying falls on children.
An even bigger consequence that needs to be frankly acknowledged and reviewed is that extra classes and advanced learning have suppressed children's interest in learning, eliminated their creativity, and eroded their thinking ability.
Therefore, Circular 29 was born to help maintain the bright and exemplary image of teachers, as well as to correct the negative effects of widespread extra classes, but not to prohibit the real and legitimate needs of both teachers and students.
Circular 29 was issued late but it is necessary to give students a childhood and fairness in the classroom. Many parents completely agree with the regulation that absolutely prohibits extra tutoring for primary school students.
As for high school students, managing tutoring by requiring business registration and tax payment becomes a mandatory obligation. Accordingly, organizations and individuals who organize or participate in tutoring are responsible for implementing current regulations on financial management and tax policies.
This will create fairness with people who earn income and pay taxes in other industries.
Teachers who teach extra classes must fulfill their tax obligations, that is natural. Because in reality, there are many teachers who open classes with incomes of up to tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of dong per month.
If in the past, the opening of classes was rampant, how they operated, how much they collected... were all "left to chance", now extra teaching activities are brought into line, avoiding chaos and loss of control.
"Sharing" percentages, tuition fees increase?
Circular 29 also stipulates that teachers are not allowed to participate in the management and operation of extra-curricular teaching. This means that if registering a business, public school teachers are not allowed to be the business owners or enterprises that organize extra-curricular teaching activities.
Asking relatives to register a business household is a problem with regulations on facilities and fire prevention and fighting, so the optimal solution is for teachers to "join forces" in tutoring centers.
To register to teach at centers, teachers must pay the center's management costs, rent, and many other fees.
There are centers that force teachers to shoulder a fairly high "sharing" ratio, causing tuition fees to increase.
In many places, the center's share is up to 30% of the fees collected from students, forcing teachers to increase tuition to compensate for the deduction for the center.
The disadvantage is being pushed towards the learners and the burden of affordable education costs is being put on the shoulders of the students' parents?
Meanwhile, 9th and 12th graders, with the pressure of admission to 10th grade and high school graduation exams, are also anxiously awaiting new guidelines on extra tutoring. Some localities want to ensure the rights of learners, so they encourage teachers to teach free of charge to final year students.
And this inadvertently creates inequality in the teaching of the teaching staff. For a long time, teachers of math, literature, English, etc. have shouldered the pressure of reviewing for final year students, with a small extra fee for each lesson just to cover gas money.
Now the new circular prohibits collecting fees for extra teaching in schools. Will it cause more difficulties in allocating timetables and mobilizing teachers for extra teaching?
The need for final year students to review for the 10th grade entrance exam and high school graduation exam is real. Hopefully, schools and parents will find ways to overcome financial difficulties so that the enhanced classes can continue to be maintained this school year.
And in the following school years, right from the beginning of the school year when arranging professional skills, schools will consider adjusting teaching hours for senior teachers.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/con-vao-trung-tam-day-them-ganh-nang-don-len-vai-cha-me-2025021715570879.htm
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