Go to every alley, knock on every door to help children get into first grade

TIMELY SUPPORT IN CASES OF MISSING OR MISSING DOCUMENTS...

The 2023-2024 school year is the first year that the entire Ho Chi Minh City will conduct online enrollment, with a pilot unit based on GIS maps for convenience, transparency, time-saving, and efficiency for students and parents. However, in order to coordinate and support parents smoothly in the online registration process, especially to avoid missing cases of temporary residents and people from other places who are old enough to enter grade 1, the work of those in charge of universal education in wards, communes, and neighborhoods is very important.

Mr. Huynh Van Dung talked with teachers and students of Huynh Van Chinh Primary School (Tan Phu District) about first grade enrollment.

At Huynh Van Chinh Primary School (Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City), teachers are familiar with Mr. Huynh Van Dung, the person in charge of universal education of the People's Committee of Hoa Thanh Ward, for the past 3 years. When parents with children born in 2017 complete the procedures to enroll their children in grade 1 at this public school, Mr. Huynh Van Dung occasionally visits the school, updates information about parents registering their children, guides parents in the ward to apply for boarding school registration as well as buy uniforms and textbooks for the new school year.

Mr. Huynh Van Dung said that normally at the beginning of the new year, based on the population database of the ward police as well as the population data software, a preliminary list of 6-year-old children who will enter grade 1 can be made to send to the district Department of Education and Training, from which school facilities for the new school year can be planned. However, this is not yet a "final" list. Mr. Dung will deploy the work to the ward chiefs, heads of residential groups, everyone will go to each alley, knock on the door of each boarding house, apartment building... to collect a specific list of children of age to enter grade 1, and guide the online enrollment registration procedures.

From these two lists, Mr. Dung and the team leaders and area leaders reviewed them together. In case any child on the list is not residing in the locality, they will call each person to see where their child goes to first grade. Or if there is a child not on the list on the population data software, but has just followed his or her parents from another place to rent a house here, the team leader will confirm that the child is staying there, and will create the best conditions for the child to go to school.

"Each residential group and neighborhood has a Zalo group to send information, but many poor workers do not have this means. Or many parents are busy working, trading, leaving their children with elderly grandparents, so they forget that when children are of school age, they still need to go to the place, to the place, knock on each door to support the people. Hoa Thanh Ward has basically completed 2 enrollment rounds, this school year there are nearly 400 children residing in the ward who will enter first grade," Mr. Dung shared.

Mr. Huynh Ngoc Oanh visited children in neighborhood 15, Binh Tri Dong Ward, Binh Tan District

In Quarter 15, Binh Tri Dong Ward, Binh Tan District (HCMC), over the past time, Mr. Huynh Ngoc Oanh, the quartermaster, and 10 neighborhood group leaders in the quarter have continuously updated and supported each temporary resident, worker's children, children of renters... so that the children have enough documents and procedures to enter first grade.

Mr. Oanh said that in order to facilitate enrollment, the review of the list of school-age students was prepared by the group leader and the neighborhood since November 2022, then updated in stages. Up to now, they continue to supplement the missing cases, so that children can receive the best support to go to school. Children who do not have an identification code, have not attended kindergarten, have a permanent address in one place, but go to school in another place... are all known by the neighborhood, and guided through the procedures for enrollment registration.

TO MAKE THE WAY TO SCHOOL MORE OPEN FOR CHILDREN

Not only supporting the work of primary school enrollment, those in charge of universal education in localities of Ho Chi Minh City are also passionate about mobilizing children to go to school, preventing dropouts, and finding resources to support them to continue their studies.

Ward 15, Binh Tri Dong Ward (Binh Tan District) has just received a certificate of merit from the city for its good work in promoting education over the past 5 years. In recent years, children in difficult circumstances here, regardless of whether they are temporary or permanent residents, have been encouraged by the neighborhood to receive a study corner with tables, chairs, bookshelves, notebooks, uniforms, and cash scholarships before the new school year.

In Hoa Thanh Ward (Tan Phu District), Mr. Huynh Van Dung confided, "It's very painful to see a child drop out of school halfway." He still remembers a few years ago in an alley on Doan Hong Phuoc Street, there was a very sad child. His father passed away, his mother sold balut eggs, and he was disabled. When the child stopped going to school for more than a month, the school contacted the People's Committee of Hoa Thanh Ward, and Mr. Dung went to his rented room to encourage him not to drop out of school.

The man who works in education in Hoa Thanh Ward said that his happiness is that when he goes to every alley and every row of boarding houses, people will recognize him. "There are people from the West who come to work and live in boarding houses, not knowing where to start so that their children can go to school. I help wholeheartedly, and my child can go to the spacious Huynh Van Chinh Primary School right in my ward. Every time I meet them, the parents thank me endlessly. I am happy because the work I do is very meaningful, because helping one child go to school can change many lives," Mr. Dung confided.

Parents submit application for their children to grade 1 at Nguyen Trung Ngan Primary School, District 8

I WAS IN TEARS WHEN I MET STUDENTS WHO WERE ABSENT FROM SCHOOL AT THE PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF WARD 8, DISTRICT 8

(HCMC), Mr. Cao Hoang Quoc Viet has been in charge of universal education in the ward for many years, both supporting the recruitment of first graders and encouraging children not to drop out of school. The most memorable and emotional memories for Mr. Viet were in 2021, when HCMC had just gone through a fierce epidemic season, many children became orphans. In alley 232 Hung Phu street, there was a girl whose mother was orphaned due to Covid-19, her father left, leaving only her grandparents, the girl dropped out of school when she was in first grade. Mr. Viet and the teachers went to the house, encouraged the girl to return to school, arranged for teachers to support her so that she could grasp the knowledge.

Also during the epidemic season, this ward has 3 brothers in extremely difficult circumstances: their mother is in prison, their father and grandfather passed away due to Covid-19, leaving only their grandmother to support them, so the children have difficulties and cannot go to school. Mr. Viet and teachers came to their homes to encourage the children to return to school; all policies for orphans due to Covid-19, scholarships are prioritized, so far the oldest child is in grade 10, the youngest is in grade 5.

"The saddest thing was the day I went to the house of a student who was informed by the school that he had not been to school for a long time and had been absent frequently. Unexpectedly, when I got there, I saw him lying in one place. His mother cried and said that he only had 30 days to live because he had a brain tumor. I have never cried with a student like that while campaigning...", Mr. Viet emotionally recounted.

Investigation and screening of children going to school from neighborhoods and wards is very important.

On the morning of August 7, Mr. Ngo Van Tuyen, Head of the Department of Education and Training of Binh Tan District, said that the enrollment of first graders in the district was nearly 100% complete. The online enrollment system showed that there were 11,300 applications for children to enroll in first grade. Up to now, more than 10,650 parents have confirmed enrollment and submitted paper applications to primary schools for their children, preparing for the new school year. Mr. Tuyen said that among the remaining applications (about 650 applications), there could be a number of reasons such as "virtual" candidates, because during the data entry process into the enrollment system, there was a mistake in just 1 character that could create a new student's name; or that child has moved back to his hometown; or the child is studying first grade in another district, county, etc.

Mr. Tuyen assessed that the process of enrolling first graders in the 2023-2024 school year in the district was smooth and quick. To achieve this, the investigation and screening of children entering the class from the neighborhood and ward by those in charge of universal education is very important.

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