The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has proposed adding 2 more days off for the 2025 Lunar New Year holiday for students in the city. Faced with this situation, some parents have asked, 'Why is there a different holiday schedule every year? Why not set a fixed holiday schedule so that parents can easily plan for the holiday?'.
The information that the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City proposed that the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City increase the 2025 Lunar New Year holiday for students by 2 days, instead of 9 days as planned, to 11 days (from the 24th of the 12th lunar month to the 5th of the 1st lunar month) attracted the attention of many readers.
Students and teachers decorate peach and apricot blossom trees to celebrate Tet.
However, from here, many people wonder: Every year there is Tet Nguyen Dan. So why not fix the annual Tet holiday schedule for students, so that parents can easily plan for the holiday, but every year it changes?
Notably, it is now the 11th lunar month, many people who live far away from home or intend to travel far during the Lunar New Year often have to book train, bus, and plane tickets many months in advance, so some people think that any changes in the number of days off for Tet at this time are not very effective. Because if the schedule and travel date and time are changed, each passenger will have to spend a significant amount of money.
Parent nt.kimthanh1905 shared: "It's quite late to change because most parents in remote provinces have already bought tickets to return home for Tet. It's quite difficult because the Tet holiday is short. Parents also don't dare to let their children take a day off because they're afraid of losing their children's lessons."
Commenting on Thanh Nien Online , reader Nguyen Thanh 79 wrote: "Why is there a different holiday schedule every year? Why not set a fixed holiday schedule so that parents can easily plan for the holiday?"
Proposal to fix the number of holidays each year
Having strongly spoken out about the need for the education sector to fix the annual Lunar New Year holiday schedule for students, not change it every year, and when there is public opinion, adjust it at the last minute when people have already bought train, bus, and plane tickets, Mr. VN, a teacher working in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, continues to reserve this opinion with Thanh Nien Online .
Teacher VN said: "With the Lunar New Year holiday, I think we need to fix the number of days off; for students, we need to create conditions for this group to have a longer break, maybe 2 weeks (14 days). This will reduce the pressure on traffic, approaching the way the school year is organized in many countries around the world."
Teacher VN said that for students, the study time has been specified in many documents of the education sector, so with 35 weeks of actual study, it is not difficult to adjust the days off. "In particular, the longer Lunar New Year holiday is meaningful for students, university students, and education officials in big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City because of the large number of students, most of whom come from many provinces to live, giving many days off will have many benefits such as: reducing traffic pressure, reducing travel costs for this group of people, creating time to regenerate energy, stimulating consumption, stimulating tourism", teacher VN shared.
Tet holiday has educational meaning for students with many useful things.
Reader Dao Thanh Liem shared with Thanh Nien Online : "It would be best to apply a 14-day Tet holiday, reducing summer vacation by 2 weeks compared to the current one. Last year, Ho Chi Minh City gave students a 16-day Tet holiday. Instead of ending the school year around May 24 to May 31, this school year will end the school year from June 1 to June 8 and the same for the coming school years. There should be no change."
Ms. Quynh Mai, a parent of a student living in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City, also believes that the holiday schedule should be fixed, the number of days off per year for students, and the holiday should be 14 days, which is best. Ideally, it is from the 23rd of the 12th lunar month to the 7th of the lunar month. When fixed like that, all plans for the year of the family and the school can be arranged more conveniently, not to mention that Tet is also a time for students to learn many meaningful things.
In a survey conducted on Thanh Nien Online , 87% of readers supported the idea that students in Ho Chi Minh City should have 14 days off for Tet. 9% of readers supported that students in Ho Chi Minh City should have 12 days off. Only 4% thought that a 9-day off was reasonable.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/sao-khong-co-dinh-lich-nghi-tet-hang-nam-cho-hoc-sinh-185241207111738832.htm
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