Nov 5, 2011

Vietnam - The six strangest schools in Vietnam



LookAtVietnam - There exists a school, where there is only one student. Another school only gathers women of ethnic minorities.

Especially, a school has been opened where people learn the sense of shame. These are the strangest
schools in Vietnam.

The school where there are only women of ethnic minorities

This is the school of 150 learners who are the women of ethnic minorities in the northern province of Cao Bang. The women have been learning at 21 classes located in three districts of Bao Loc, Bao Lam and Ha Quang in the province.

A lot of women are very diligent in following their study. They go to school every evening, carrying their children pick-a-back astride on their hip with a cloth band. After the lessons, they return home and discuss with husbands about the lessons.

Going to school has become happiness for the women of ethnic minority. Education has helped change the way of living and thinking of ethnic minority people.

The school run by a blind teacher

Living for 20 years in the darkness, Dang Ngoc Duy, 33, in Tam Ky City of Quang Nam province has been facing a lot of problems. However, Duy never thinks that he would “surrender to the destiny.”

In 1992, when the Nguyen Dinh Chieu School for the blind was established in Da Nang City, Duy’s parent traveled a distance of 60 kilometers to bring Duy to the school.

There at the school, Duy learned the way to communicate with the world with Braille language. Refusing the invitation to stay at the school to work as a teacher, Duy returned home and continued learning hard, cherishing the hope that he would pass the entrance exams to a university.

In 2008, Duy graduated from the university and started thinking about the project on building up a school for the blind, the first one of this kind in Tam Ky.

The school that teaches hat xam (songs of a strolling blind musician)

In an effort to rescue hat xam from falling into oblivion, the artists of the Development Center for Musical Arts Vietnam have organized the classes, where they teach hat xam free of charge to everyone. The classes are located in Hanoi.

The classes have existed for the last five years, during which hundreds of young people learned to hat xam and learned to love the traditional type of art.

Musician Thao Giang said that the enthusiasm of young people at the classes show that Vietnamese people do not turn their back to the traditional arts as many people fear.

The school with only 2 students

The Nam Khao village of Muong Te district in Lai Chau province has special classes.

A class for second graders only has two students, while the classes for third and sixth graders only have six students, a class for fourth graders has 9 students. The class for 5th graders proves to be the most crowded with 22 students.

Vinh, Deputy Headmaster of the Nam Khao Primary School said that a lot of classes are located in different hamlets to serve the local students, who cannot travel long distances to school. Therefore, the numbers of students vary in different classes.

Every year, the teachers of the school have to come to every household to persuade parents to let their children go to school

The classes designed for male and female students

The fact that a psychology doctor, who was once the lecturer of the Vinh City University, returned to the home village after he got retired to build a school with strange rules, is always a topic for discussion among local residents of Huong Son district in Ha Tinh province.

The classes only gather male or female students. Every period of teaching lasts 90 minutes. The students of the school can stay off from school in harvest time.

The security guards of the school are also very special: they are the dogs.

This is the Nguyen Khac Vien people founded high school in Son Bang commune in Ha Tinh province, whose Dr Nguyen Le Dac is the headmaster.

The classes that teach the sense of shame

Dao ethnic minority people in Dang Long hamlet of Bac Son commune in Hoa Binh province calls Trieu Van Trien their “repository of knowledge.” For the last 10 years, Trien has been running the classes that teach the sense of shame.

“You should be ashamed when you do bad things, when you do not know your origins and when you make ethics violations,” he said.

Source: VTC



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