VietNamNet Bridge – “Once a liar always a liar” – Vietnamese
teachers understand the saying well, but they still teach their students to
tell lies.
A fourth grader of a primary
school in Dong Da district in Hanoi said that she always burns incense to pray
for luck every time when she attends examinations.
“My teacher always reminds us to
be cautious when copying at the exams. We would be heavily punished if someone
sees us cribbing,” she said.
Surprisingly, the girl does not
pray for staying lucid during the examinations so that she can make right
decisions, but she simply wants her behaviors of cheating at the exams to go
smoothly.
The girl also said that the
teacher always called her students for extra classes before the exam days. At
the classes, the students can do the exercises which are exactly the same with
the questions to be raised at the exams.
The teacher repeatedly says she
wants to help students pass the exams. If someone does not know how to solve
the questions, he can copy the answers given before by the teacher at the extra
classes.
The small girl, who is just a
fourth grader, commented that her teacher did very well to help her students.
Almost the students in her class get the titles of “Excellent” or “good
students” when the academic years finish.
The story about a third grader boy
complaining about his rude teacher has become a hot topic on education forums.
The boy said his teacher is not
as nice as other teachers, because she always scolds students. The teacher
usually tears the students’ notebooks if she discovers mistakes. She asks
students to keep books in good conditions, in anticipation of the inspection
tours to be taken by education officials.
The boy also said he cannot
understand why the teacher sometimes tells lies. “Yesterday, she scolded H,
saying that H was a bad student. However, when meeting H’s mother, who came to
school to see the child off, the teacher said H was very good at school,” the
boy said.
“I think the teacher has to tell
lies because H is from a rich family and H’s mother usually gives presents to the
teacher,” he commented.
The boy seems to be an excellent
student of the teacher – liar. The next day, when he was asked to write an
essay and express his feelings about the teacher, he wrote the essay with
flowery words to flatter the teacher.
When the father asked why he
still praised the teacher, though he does not like her, the boy said he needed
to be “friendly” with the teacher, or she would give bad marks to him.
The parent, when sharing the
story with the colleagues, said she feels worried when an eight year old boy
can master the “art of telling lies.”
A parent, whose child is a third
grader of a primary school in Thanh Tri district in Hanoi, also said students
nowadays are taught to tell lies right at school.
His child’s teacher runs a private
tutoring class and asks all the members of the class to go to the class to
“improve knowledge.” However, the students have been asked to deny the private
tutoring if someone asks them about the teaching.
The problem is that the Ministry
of Education and Training is tightening its control over the private tutoring
of school teachers, threatening to heavily discipline the teachers violating
the regulations. As a result, the extra classes have been running in quietness,
while students have been asked to keep secret about their classes.
Compiled by Thu Uyen
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