Principal resigns after criticism of cutting boarding students' meals

The information was stated in the report of Song Ma District Party Committee (Son La), on the afternoon of December 3.

According to the report, on November 28, the working delegation of the District People's Committee worked with the board of directors of Nam Ty Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities and Ms. Nguyen Thi Ha, the school's principal.

After meeting and discussing with the working group and realizing the responsibility of the management staff for the situation of poor quality of the boarding meals, Ms. Ha wrote a resignation letter.

The District People's Committee has issued a decision to dismiss Ms. Nguyen Thi Ha from the position of principal and assign her to work as a culture teacher at Chieng Khoong Primary School from December 2.

The district also assigned Ms. Mac Thi Loan, Deputy Head of the Song Ma Department of Education and Training, to be in charge of Nam Ty Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities from December 2 until a new principal is appointed according to regulations.

Parents reported that meals did not ensure nutrition at Nam Ty Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities (Son La).

Previously, the Department of Education and Training of Song Ma district had a meeting with Nam Ty Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities, after parents and students complained that the school's semi-boarding meals were "very boring, hard to eat", and did not ensure nutrition and regime.

Through inspection, the District Education and Training Department found that the menu for many meals of boarding students during the week only included boiled eggs and fried sausages. The dinner on October 24 included boiled eggs, vegetable soup and white rice; the afternoon meal on November 5 included 2 boiled eggs, white rice and vegetable soup for each student; the lunch on November 25 included white rice, vegetable soup and fried chicken.

The menu of Nam Ty primary school for ethnic minorities publicly announced the financial cost of cooking meals for boarding students on November 28, including 13 types of food and spices for 536 students with a total cost of 20,130,000 VND.

Accordingly, each meal costs 37,556 VND, while Decree 116/2016 of the Government on support policies for students and general schools in extremely disadvantaged communes and villages stipulates that the support level for students is 936,000 VND/month, equivalent to 42,545 VND/day. However, the school only spent 37,556 VND, a shortfall of 4,989 VND/student.

In addition, at the time of inspection, the school had not publicly announced the boarding meals; had not publicly listed the unit supplying food and spices for cooking.

The parents said they had complained to the school board. The school board also responded that they would remind the kitchen to fix the problem, but the students' meals were still not adjusted.

Kim Nhung

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