School in Son La rotates feeding students rice and boiled eggs

TPO - Parents of Nam Ty Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities, Song Ma District (Son La) reported that the meals were meager and boring. The Department of Education and Training of Song Ma District inspected and found that some meals only had vegetables and boiled eggs.

TPO - Parents of Nam Ty Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities, Song Ma District (Son La) reported that the meals were meager and boring. The Department of Education and Training of Song Ma District inspected and found that some meals only had vegetables and boiled eggs.

Reflecting to Tien Phong reporter, Mr. NP, whose child studies at Nam Ty Primary School for Ethnic Minorities in Song Ma District (Son La), said that his house is more than 10 kilometers from the school, so his child stays in the dormitory from Monday to Friday to study. According to the State-supported regime, each student is given nearly 43,000 VND for meals each day. Since October, when he comes home from school, his child often complains that the meals at school are very boring and hard to eat. Therefore, he and other parents went to the school to check.

“Sometimes, the children’s rice only has a little vegetable soup and 2 sausages, some days it only has vegetables and boiled eggs, some days it only has vegetables and tofu. There are also times when the menu is fried meat but in reality it is fatty meat braised with a lot of water,” said Mr. NP.

According to parents, previously, the school's lunch consisted of only vegetables, boiled eggs, tofu, or sausages. (Photo: Provided by parents).

According to this parent, when he saw the meager lunch menu, he and other parents reported it to the school's Board of Directors. The Board of Directors also responded that they would remind the kitchen to fix it, but after that, the students' meals were still not adjusted.

"Students are at the age of eating and growing, we want meals to be improved to ensure nutrition," said Mr. P.

The student meal includes cabbage soup and 2 sausages.

The school has many violations.

On November 28, the Department of Education and Training of Song Ma district (Son La) led by Mr. Nguyen Cong Vien, Head of the Department of Education and Training, had a working session with Nam Ty Primary School for Ethnic Minorities regarding the students' meals.

According to the minutes, the inspection results showed that the menu for many meals of boarding students during the week only included boiled eggs and fried sausages. Dinner on October 24 included boiled eggs, vegetable soup and white rice; dinner on November 5 included 2 boiled eggs, white rice and vegetable soup for each student; lunch on November 25 included white rice, vegetable soup and fried chicken.

Also according to the results of the working session of the Department of Education and Training of Song Ma district, the menu of Nam Ty Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities publicly announced the financial cost of boarding meals on November 28, including 13 types of food and spices for 536 students with a total cost of 20,130,000 VND.

Accordingly, each meal will cost 37,556 VND, but Decree 116/CP of 2016 of the Prime Minister stipulates the policy of supporting students and general schools in extremely disadvantaged communes and villages, stipulating the support level for students is 936,000 VND/month/student. For primary school students, implementing boarding meals 22 days/month will have a meal level of 42,545 VND/day/student. However, the school only spent 37,556 VND, a shortfall of 4,989 VND/student.

In addition, at the time of inspection, the school had not publicly announced the boarding meals; had not publicly listed the unit supplying food and spices for cooking.

Ha Linh

Source: https://tienphong.vn/truong-hoc-o-son-la-quay-vong-cho-hoc-sinh-an-com-va-trung-luoc-post1697057.tpo