Overcharging at the beginning of the year often comes from the parents' association fund, contributions to the school in the spirit of "voluntary", "support", "socialization"... but lacks transparency and equality.
Proposal to remove the "money collection" function of the parents' representative board
Circular 55/2011/TT-BGDDT stipulates that the parent-teacher association is not allowed to collect donations from students or their families: Donations that are not voluntary; Donations that do not directly serve the activities of the parent-teacher association: Protecting school facilities, ensuring school security; supervising students' vehicles; cleaning classrooms, cleaning schools; rewarding school administrators, teachers, and staff; purchasing machinery, equipment, and teaching aids for schools, classrooms, or for school administrators, teachers, and staff; supporting management, teaching organization, and educational activities; repairing, upgrading, and constructing...
However, what is "not voluntary"? This concept of "not voluntary" is the cause of overcharging because in fact, voluntary is just a form, but exactly "voluntary compulsion".
The parents' representative committee should only be a bridge between the school and parents in educating students, not a committee that "collects extra money" at the beginning of the year.
Therefore, the "money collection" function of the parents' representative committee can be completely eliminated.
To have resources to support the school in carrying out the task of teaching and learning in the condition that the investment budget for education in general is still low, the budget for the school is still limited, the support of businesses, sponsors is very much needed... I think the school should boldly call for golden hearts to sponsor funds to facilitate the school. This action shows humanity and kindness and will be more supported and agreed upon than mobilizing "voluntary" contributions from the parents' representative board in establishing the association fund, which can easily lead to overcharging.
The total amount of revenue and expenditure at the beginning of the new school year of a class at Hong Ha Primary School (Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City) caused a stir in public opinion.
"Regulatory" policy of socialized education
Socialization of education is an effective solution to improve school facilities, supporting schools to carry out teaching tasks with quality and efficiency in the context of limited education funding. However, the socialization policy is being exploited to become a shield to cover up sky-high fees in some schools, causing this humane policy to "derail" and be strongly opposed.
Public school tuition is not much, but the various additional fees add up to millions, tens of millions. In addition to modest expenses such as electricity, water, sanitation, and parking, there are countless "heavy" revenues from extra classes, funds for facilities renovation, funds for the school and class parent association, and boarding support fees...
The cover of "voluntary" and the forms of mobilizing parents to sign commitments, raise their hands to vote in agreement, and even write applications to voluntarily contribute create countless tragicomic stories every parent-teacher conference at the beginning of the school year. It is time for the story of socialized education to be clarified and specified with strict regulations.
The total estimated revenue and expenditure of the parent fund of Tu Hiep Secondary School (Thanh Tri District, Hanoi) is up to more than 500 million VND with many items not in accordance with regulations.
Severe punishment for the leader
In terms of management, the principal is the person with the highest responsibility for all revenues in the school because he is the account holder. The revenues and expenditures at the beginning of the school year are included in the internal spending plan approved at the civil servant conference at the beginning of the school year. If the revenues and expenditures are not clear and transparent, the principal will be handled according to the law.
Whenever there are signs of overcharging as reported by parents, the authorities quickly investigate and handle the matter according to the law. Avoid the situation of being lenient and punishing with "lift high, hit lightly" which is not enough of a deterrent as it has been for a long time, causing the problem of overcharging to continue silently.
Collecting correctly and fully, harmonizing the interests between schools and families, and flexibly and humanely applying regulations on socialized education are urgent requirements to prevent overcharging.
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