"Support" for students in mountainous areas

6th grade students at Tran Hung Dao Secondary School, Hong Thuong Commune, A Luoi District (Thua Thien Hue Province) gathered at the beginning of the new school year 2023-2024

Mr. Ho Van Khoi, Head of the Department of Education and Training of A Luoi district, said that in the 2023-2024 school year, there are 44 schools at all levels in the district, with about 13,000 preschool, primary and secondary school students managed by the Department. Up to now, the enrollment work of the schools has been completed and achieved the targets according to the plan. The schools have also cleaned classrooms, functional rooms, and equipped facilities to ensure teaching and learning for the new school year. Actual survey data shows that preschool enrollment meets the requirements with 41% of the nursery group; kindergarten group reaches more than 99%; primary level reaches 100%...

The basic education sector's facilities are adequate; the main difficulty lies in the preschool system. The enrollment of primary school students (grades 1 and 6) meets the target, but in reality, in the recent concentration period, some students have not been able to attend school because their parents are working far away. Currently, according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training , the district education sector is still lacking teachers. The Department of Education and Training is consulting the district People's Committee to come up with a recruitment plan to meet the requirements.

A Luoi district is one of the 74 poor districts in the country, so the work of mobilizing students to go to school and class is an important content that the education sector and local authorities at all levels focus on.

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Ms. Tran Thi Ty Muoi, Principal of Tran Hung Dao Secondary School, Hong Thuong Commune, A Luoi District, said: The school's students are children from Hong Thuong, Phu Vinh, and Son Thuy communes. Thanks to the close coordination between the school and the local government, the enrollment of the first grade students has been relatively smooth. The school's Youth Union and the village chiefs have gone to remote locations, especially resettlement areas, to promote and call on families to register their children for school. At the same time, they have also grasped the situation of households in difficult circumstances to promptly encourage, support, and help. In the 2023-2024 school year, Tran Hung Dao Secondary School has 465 students in 13 classes, of which 134 are in grade 6 (4 classes). The first grade students are also very excited and enthusiastic during the first gathering of the new school year.

“At the parent-teacher meeting at the beginning of the school year, the school encouraged families to pledge not to let their children drop out of school. Students with difficult circumstances received timely attention, encouragement, and support from teachers and local authorities. The school also encouraged philanthropists to give the children hundreds of gifts, clothes, and school supplies for the upcoming opening ceremony,” Ms. Tran Thi Ty Muoi informed.

A representative of the Department of Education and Training of A Luoi district said that to ensure there is no shortage of textbooks, schools have received orders to buy books for students. For especially difficult cases, the Department of Education has connected with the Publishing House, calling on benefactors to donate free books. During this school year, from the resources for the Department of Education and integrating the national target program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, A Luoi district has invested more than 60 billion VND to build infrastructure, classrooms, upgrade facilities, purchase teaching equipment, etc. Thereby, gradually perfecting and synchronizing the system of educational institutions, improving the quality of teaching and learning.

Because it is a remote area, school dropouts still occur, usually after the Lunar New Year holiday and concentrated in middle school. Some children follow their parents to the South to work, so they drop out of school early to help with work. In order for the children not to leave their studies unfinished, last year, education officials and local authorities went to Ho Chi Minh City to mobilize and support the children to return to school; to date, 7 children have returned and completed middle school.

“We require schools to regularly update information and student data, find out about difficult and problematic cases, promptly resolve them, and help students so that they do not have to drop out of school. Some schools have also implemented many models and good practices to help students in the area,” said Mr. Ho Van Khoi.

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