VietNamNet Bridge – The number of students expelled from
schools or suspended for one year has been increasing rapidly. This, in the
eyes of experts, is an alarming problem.
Under the current regulation,
headmasters of schools have the right to suspend the study of students for one
year. This is the heaviest punishment at general schools.
The news about the suspension of
students nowadays does not surprise the people in Van Tao commune in Thuong Tin
district of Hanoi any more. The Van Tao High School Board of Management every
year signed the decision to suspend the study of a series of students for one
week or one year. Some students, after experiencing the “suspension period” had
to move to other schools or give up school for ever.
In the first semester of the
2012-2013 academic year alone, nearly 40 students were disciplined by the
school, many of them were expelled from school, according to a teacher of the
Van Tao School.
The mother of Bui Van N, one of
the students who have just been expelled from school, complained that she is
afraid N would become a naughty boy if he cannot continue going to school.
“His brother is a drug addict,
and I am now afraid that N would follow his brother’s step,” he complained.
The problem was that N’s mother
did not hear anything about the problem of N until the she was informed about
the school’s decision to expel N.
When asked what N would do in the
time to come, he simply said he would stay at home, because he still doesn’t
know what he should do.
The decision to suspend N for one
year was signed by the school’s board of management was signed on December 24,
2012, which said that N violated two mistakes – using mobile phones during the
lesson hours and had impolite behaviors to the teachers.
Nguyen Van Bien, the physical
exercise teacher of N, said N made mistake in his lesson. N swore before the
class when the teacher blamed him for not wearing uniform.
However, Bien said he had not
known about the punishment on N until the final decision was made, because he
was not consulted on the issue.
In 2010, the My Duc C High School
in Ha Dong district suspended 11 students just for “passing water improperly”.
In 2012, the Ha Long High School
for the Gifted, suspended three female students. One of them was asked to
forward the “challenge” to another, but she did not report about the case to
the school, but forwarded the challenge directly to the other. The punishment
on the student was too heavy for the student.
A female student of the Le Quy
Don High School in Ha Dong district was heavily disciplined in 2012 because she
showed a classmate up in the public. Most recently, a student in Quang Nam
province, who insulted teacher on Facebook, was also proposed to be expelled
from school.
The treatment in the cases has
raised controversy among the public. Some believe that no one can dispose of
the students’ right of going to school. Meanwhile, others believe that they
need to be heavily punished, and that schools must not be the place for naughty
students.
However, once the students are
expelled from school, they would not have the chance to continue their study,
and the opportunities to improve themselves to become good citizens to the
society. Therefore, experts have voiced their concern about the “movement” of
expelling students from school, suggesting to amend the current regulations to
ensure students’ interests.
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