At 1:45 p.m. on March 30, at a meeting between the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, Ho Chi Minh City Police, the American International School Vietnam Council (AISVN International School) and nearly 900 parents, Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu - Director of the City Department of Education and Training announced a report on the school's restructuring.
According to the report sent by AIS American International Education Joint Stock Company (investor of AISVN International School) to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and the Department of Education and Training, the company said that it is expected to need an expenditure of 125 billion VND in the near future. To cover this expenditure, the school is calling on parents to contribute. This seems to be the only option to maintain the school's operations at this time.
Accordingly, the total debt for salary and operation expenses of the school up to now is 48 billion VND. The operating cost of the school from April 2024 to June 2024 (end of the school year) is 77 billion VND.
Therefore, the school expects revenue of 121 billion VND and additional revenue of 4 billion VND for investor's working capital.
Overview of the meeting between the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, Ho Chi Minh City Police, AISVN International School Council and nearly 900 parents on the afternoon of March 30.
"According to the school's accountant, the payment will be divided into levels. The payment is about 9.5-25 million VND/student, depending on the grade. However, I think that for each grade, parents should appoint a representative to participate in the financial management team from now until the end of the school year. Review the expenses, in the spirit of streamlined spending with the most essential content. The parent representative will appoint a group to establish a new parent account, with parents in charge. At this point, I think parents have the responsibility to join hands...", said the Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City.
At around 2:30 p.m., Ms. Nguyen Thi Ut Em - Chairwoman of the School Board attended the meeting. In front of nearly 900 parents, Ms. Ut Em apologized and continued to present the plan to call for contributions.
Ms. Ut Em's appeal received mixed opinions from parents.
Ms. TH (who has 2 children studying at the school) was upset: "We had anticipated the plan to contribute more money, because in October 2023, Ms. Ut Em also called on us to contribute nearly 70 billion VND to maintain the school's operations.
Currently, there are 2 months left until the end of the school year, which means each student will have to pay about 40 million VND. This is not a small amount, but we can try. The important thing is how the school will operate after the end of the school year, so we cannot continue to mobilize parents. Meanwhile, most of us have paid the full amount for our children until the end of grade 12."
Similarly, Mr. TH (parent of a 9th grade student) also said that calling on parents to contribute money is not feasible in the long term.
"Each child studying at the school, the package payment is around 3 billion VND/child. We pay the package to find a good and stable educational environment, not like this. Now we are calling for donations to help the school, will we call again after the school year is over?", Mr. TH said.
Report on the plan to maintain the operation of AISVN School.
At 6:28 p.m. the same day, AISVN International School sent an email to all parents, asking for their opinions on whether they agreed or not to contribute money to operate the school.
The survey includes 3 contents: Agree to contribute funds to maintain school operations until the end of the 2023-2023 school year; Disagree to contribute funds, have a need to transfer to another educational institution; Other opinions.
" Parents, please only complete the survey once for all your children currently studying. The survey must be submitted before 9:00 p.m. on March 30 ," the email from AISVN International School stated. The accounting department will email specific information to each family about the amount to be paid. The department will provide account information for parents to contribute tomorrow (March 31).
Yesterday (March 29), AISVN International School also announced the results of a survey of parents' wishes about their children's upcoming study program.
The results showed that 84.56% of parents wanted their children to continue studying at the school, 3.27% wanted to transfer schools, 5.10% had other opinions and 7.07% had not submitted the results.
In the other 5.10% of opinions, the vast majority of parents want to ensure the commitments in the contract signed with the school.
Considering the wishes of parents and the School Board, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training and the Ho Chi Minh City Police held a meeting this afternoon. However, the school and parents have yet to find a common voice.
To ensure the rights of students of AISVN International School, to rectify foreign investment activities in the education sector to ensure compliance with regulations and the strictness of the law, the Prime Minister requested the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to be responsible for directing relevant agencies to promptly implement appropriate solutions, ensuring the right to study for students, and not allowing students' studies to be interrupted.
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