Be careful when letting students go on spontaneous field trips.

Cancel class experience plan

A parent whose child is in grade 10 at a private high school in Nam Tu Liem District (Hanoi) said: the parent committee of her child's class had planned a month in advance to organize a 2-day field trip for the children right after the closing ceremony of the school year.

Safe experiential activities are still essential for students.

Specifically, in the morning, the children will be taken to the social protection center in the district, giving gifts to lonely elderly people, both as a volunteer activity and to educate the children about the spirit of mutual love and support. After that, the whole class and their parents will get on the bus to Quang Ninh to rest, relax and organize activities to help connect students and families in the class.

However, the plan to go to Quang Ninh was "broken" after the recent incident of a student and a parent being swept away and killed while experiencing clam catching in Nam Dinh. The children only went to give gifts to the elderly at the social protection center, then went to a restaurant in Hanoi for the year-end party.

"All the children were disappointed, but their parents and homeroom teacher agreed to stop. In the context of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training recommending to limit spontaneous organization after the heartbreaking incident above, if the class still organized the trip, it would not be comfortable and reassuring," this parent shared.

Ms. LTQH, who has two children studying in high school in Hai Ba Trung District (Hanoi), shared: "The Department of Education and Training recommends and limits spontaneous experiential activities as much as possible. It is not because of the recent incident that I do not let my children participate in field trips organized by the class parent committee. For a long time now, I have not felt secure with this activity and will not let my children participate if I cannot go with them."

According to Ms. H., spontaneous activities often do not have expertise in organizing tourism and experiences. If the school organizes, it usually contracts with a licensed unit, has procedures for permission, and approves the plan fully, but if the class parent committee organizes, sometimes even the teachers and the school do not know, especially when the children are on summer vacation.

"There is no document that completely prohibits"

Besides the last-minute "turnaround" decisions, many classes are still determined to organize tours and experiences for their children according to the previous plan and affirm that they will ensure safety or change the location, not going to river tourist destinations anymore...

A parent whose child studies at Thanh Xuan Secondary School (Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi) expressed his opinion: class-based activities will help strengthen relationships between students, students and teachers, parents and teachers, and families will also have the opportunity to meet and interact...

Therefore, according to this parent, we should not completely ban it because of the risk of insecurity. Instead, we need to be well prepared to ensure the safety of all participants; absolutely do not let children experience risky activities and games...

Sharing the same opinion, a parent whose child studies at a primary school in Ba Dinh District (Hanoi) also said that it is good for children to experience, but experiences that change too suddenly compared to their daily activities also need to be considered. For example, students in the city have never waded through rice fields or caught crabs and snails, but "suddenly" sending their children to wade through ponds or rice fields is very inappropriate.

"Experience must also equip children with skills in advance so that they are not unsafe or at least not scared, not because we want them to know how their friends in the countryside live or what their parents were like when they were young, forcing them to change too suddenly," he said.

In response to concerns about the complete ban on experiential activities organized by parents in class units, in a recent press conference, Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training Tran The Cuong said that the department has no document completely banning them.

To ensure the safety of students, the Department requires schools to strictly follow relevant regulations and limit spontaneous experiential activities. If the experiential activities are organized by parents, they should be carefully prepared in all aspects before implementation to ensure the safety of their children throughout the participation process.

The Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training also said: "Recently, basically, field trips, extracurricular activities, and experiences for students have been well implemented by schools and brought positive effects in the comprehensive education process of students. The Department requires schools to properly implement existing regulations on this content to ensure student safety."

Regarding experiential activities, tours, and picnics organized by the school, the Procedure for organizing student tours and experiences was issued by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training since 2019, in Document No. 3867/SGDĐT-CTTT dated September 6.

Specifically, before organizing, the school must develop a specific plan, clarifying the participants, implementing unit; time, location, schedule, organization budget, safety plan and make-up schedule for students (if organizing on a day not allowed as a holiday according to regulations). After that, the school sends a dossier (at least 7 days in advance) requesting approval of the organization plan to the direct management level. The dossier includes: a request for approval of the organization plan; minutes of the meeting between the school and the parent representative board; organization plan; business license of the implementing unit.

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