Or at noon on June 7, after the math exam at the gate of Chanh Hung Secondary School, District 8, a male student absentmindedly got on his father's motorbike, wearing a mask but tears kept falling. Every exam has its sadness and regret.
In the 2023-2024 school year, Ho Chi Minh City has 77,294 quotas for grade 10 through the grade 10 entrance exam at 114 high schools across the city, with 96,334 candidates registering for the exam. About 20,000 candidates failed to pass the public grade 10 exam and had to choose another path. Thus, over 90,000 families are sitting on fire from now until the day the benchmark scores are announced.
Hugs during exam season
A mother told me that a few days before her son took the exam, she took time off from work to wait for him at the school gate so that she would not worry, because even if she went to work, her mind would still be on the exam. Another father, Son Lam, living in District 8, while waiting for his son, said that for the past few weeks, all family members "walked lightly, spoke softly, smiled charmingly", and did not watch TV late at night... so that his son could have the most quiet space to study. Although he always appeared calm in front of his son, he was restless inside.
What touched the reporters outside the gate of the 10th grade entrance exam in Ho Chi Minh City was probably the hugs of fathers and mothers for their children. When candidates cried because they did not do well on the test, they also shed tears in their fathers’ arms, to be comforted and sympathized. But, for me, there was something even more touching outside the exam hall, when I heard a man confide in his wife.
She has been a worker at PouYuen Company for 20 years, working from early morning to late at night, always worried about losing her job during layoffs and has never been able to take her child to school. She loves her child, only thinking about her child from the factory. Yesterday, he took his daughter to the exam alone, and in his mind, he always had a dream that she would pass the 10th grade of a public school, so that the family's limited budget could take care of her.
I remember my mother. Throughout my childhood, my 10th grade exams, and even the day I left the countryside to go to the city to take the university entrance exam, my mother never held my hand to the school gate. I blamed her for being cold. Until I became a mother. Every parent has their own way of loving and caring for their children. Surely my mother, and the mother who worked as a worker for 20 years, would hug and hold her child's hand tightly, if she could take her child to the exam, even just once...
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