'Suppression' education

Many readers are concerned and hope that the press will accompany them to the end to find a final solution from the authorities. It feels like they don't know where to "hold on" to!

"Is it so difficult for the Ministry of Education and Training to instruct schools to only teach the main curriculum?" is a question that receives a lot of agreement. Perhaps, when the questioner has not yet had children in school, he himself is not so extreme as to not want schools to add any subjects or educational activities beyond the framework curriculum of the Ministry of Education and Training into teaching. However, the way schools are implementing this policy has distorted this policy. After many years of schools being allowed to include educational activities that are linked, enhanced, and fostered (with fees)... it is the same amount of time that parents have to worry about whether or not to voluntarily register their children for school each time school opens.

What has been most criticized by public opinion recently is the fact that schools "insert" additional, linked educational subjects/activities into the official teaching schedule. This year, this situation has decreased after the Ministry of Education and Training issued a series of documents and corrective actions. However, that does not mean that schools accept the return of voluntary subjects to their true meaning.

Linked learning is becoming more and more sophisticated! The author of this article had to exclaim like that because he witnessed many schools using many different "tricks" to force parents to make a choice. The main school hours at the elementary level are packed, ending before 3pm, and after that time are non-mainstream lessons, which are tutoring, reinforcement, and linking services... Most parents cannot leave work to pick up their children at that time, so they have to register their children for a few more lessons at school, as an extra childcare fee.

Some schools classify classes that teach English in association, international English, etc. as "selective classes", and arrange for the school's best teachers to teach. This "beer and peanuts" design makes parents, even if they do not have the need to learn English in association at school, accept to participate with much higher tuition fees. Who doesn't want their children to learn from good teachers?!

Many doubts arise when the timetable is arranged to be more convenient for the arrangement of the partner’s teachers than for the convenience of the students’ learning and the parents’ pick-up and drop-off times. Some places even explain that if all the joint study hours are held outside of class hours, the unit that the school cooperates with will not be able to arrange enough teachers because a unit often coordinates with many schools in the area.

Many parents and education experts suggest that it is time for a decisive direction from the education sector on this issue. We cannot let parents and students lose faith in education because of things that seem to be "extra" or "extra".

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/giao-duc-chen-ep-185241018230014286.htm