Stirring up a high school in Hanoi that plans to spend more than half a billion dong on funds

On September 28, Mr. Pham Van Ngát, Head of the Department of Education and Training of Thanh Tri district, said that the unit is requesting a working group to work with the school and the parents' representative board to verify and inspect and will have a concluding report.

Ms. Bui Thi Hai Ly, Principal of Tu Hiep Secondary School, the school has grasped the parents' feedback. However, due to being busy with meetings, she has not had time to work with the parents' representative board to clarify this feedback.

List of revenues of Tu Hiep Secondary School (Thanh Tri, Hanoi) for the 2023-2024 school year. (Photo: Provided by parents).

Since September 26, social networks have been spreading images of the list of revenue and expenditure for the operating expenses of the Parents' Representative Committee of Tu Hiep Secondary School (Thanh Tri, Hanoi) with dozens of "strange" revenue items.

For example, gratitude to teachers on November 20 (45 - 50 million VND), funding for students to study at Chu Van An (10 - 15 million VND); funding for meetings of class leaders, heads of parent representatives of the whole school to summarize the first semester and the school year (12 - 15 million VND); Support for organizing the Mid-Autumn Festival for all students in the whole school (32 - 39 million VND), gratitude to teachers on the occasion of Lunar New Year (45 - 50 million VND).

Total estimated revenue and expenditure for the school year ranges from 437 - 518 million VND.

At the beginning of the new school year, although the Ministry of Education and Training and the Departments of Education and Training have issued many documents and regulations to "tighten" revenue and expenditure, the situation of overcharging and illegal revenue collection still occurs in many schools and many provinces and cities.

Parents unanimously petitioned that the Ministry of Education and Training needs to take more drastic action, inspect, check and strictly handle cases of intentional violations, causing public outrage and damaging the image of the education sector.

Regarding the issue of parents' fund revenue and expenditure, Article 10 of Circular 55 of the Charter of the Parents' Representative Board issued by the Ministry of Education and Training specifically stipulates:

The Board of Representatives is only allowed to collect two amounts of money. First, the operating expenses of the Class Parents' Committee come from the voluntary support of parents and other legal sources of funding for the Board of Representatives.

Second, the operating budget of the school's Parents' Representative Board is taken from the operating budget of the class Parents' Representative Boards according to the recommendation of the plenary meeting of the heads of the class Parents' Representative Boards at the beginning of the school year and other legal funding sources for the school's Parents' Representative Board.

Circular 55 also lists in detail 7 amounts of money that the Parents' Representative Board is not allowed to collect. These are: Protecting school facilities, ensuring school security; supervising students' vehicles; cleaning classrooms and schools; rewarding school administrators, teachers and staff; purchasing machinery, equipment and teaching aids for schools, classrooms or for school administrators, teachers and staff; supporting management, teaching and learning organization and educational activities; repairing, upgrading and constructing new school facilities.

Ha Cuong

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