Parents always try to bring best things to children
Architect Tran Minh Tam, Chair of TTT Construction and Interior Decoration Company, has two sons who are both studying at international schools. Tam believes that people not only can get knowledge from schools, therefore, he wants his children to experience easygoing school years, when they can have time for entertainment and relax, music and film.
International schools prove to be the ones which can best satisfy the requirements of Tam. However, Tam feared that the children would become the strangers in the Vietnamese community and they could not speak Vietnamese. Therefore, he decided to bring the children to state owned schools.
His elder son went to a “village school”, i.e a normal school, not a star school which was near his house. The boy only began going to international school when he entered the 10th grade and needed to prepare for the study at foreign universities.
Tam has decided to bring the second boy to international school sooner than elder boy, when he enters the eighth grade. He feels satisfactory with the knowledge and skills the elder boy got from the international school, saying that the skills are not trained at state owned schools.
Two years ago, “V” decided that to shift his son, who was a second grader of a state owned school, to an international school, which set the tuition level at 12,000 dollars a year.
“I wanted to escape from tens of additional fees and charges I had to pay when my son studied at the state owned school. I also felt too tired of carrying my son to extra classes every day,” he explained his decision.
However, V said, the most important reason behind his decision was that he rejected the traditional education method applied by state owned schools which he believes has become unsuitable to students. He wanted his son to study at the school, which offers a learning environment, where students can develop their creativeness and independence.
Unlike Tam or V, “M” believed that her daughter needed to become an excellent student at a prestigious state owned school, because M did not have much money to send the girl to an international school. M’s daughter overcame all the challenges and difficulties at schools and she was always an excellent student.
Recently, M decided to send the girl to a high school in the US, planning that after finishing the high school, she would return to Vietnam to study at a domestic university.
“However, in a letter sent to me from the US, my daughter called the period when she studied at state owned schools as the “period of getting burnt”,” M said.
She related that as the girl studied at a school for the gifted, she always had to learn hard and always felt stress. Studying in the environment, where students had to compete fiercely with each other, the girl did not have close friends.
M, who has learned lessons, now decides to bring the second child to a normal state owned school, not a star school, or school for the gifted.
Children, not parents, decide what schools to go
Vu Bao Quoc, a member of the board of directors of the Truong Hai Automobile Corporation, related that he and his wife once flew to the US to arrange a seat for their daughter at a high school.
“However, she has just said that she does not want to study abroad and live far from the family,” he said.
What would parents do in such case? They would force the children to follow their instructions. But Quoc thinks the other way.
“Everyone wishes he can live happily. My daughter also wants to live happily, while the learning environment is also the living environment,” Quoc said.
“The learners are the children, not their parents. Only when the children can feel happy at school, will they be able to learn well,” he said.
Source: TBKTSG
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