What’s behind the title of national excellent student?
It would be wonderful if they can win good prizes at the national competitions for excellent students or can be selected for the national teams for international Olympiads. However, if they cannot win high prizes, they will have to return to daily school hours and have to prepare intensively for the university entrance exams. Especially, they would have start everything from the very beginning, with the lack of knowledge and live skills.
One month before the national competition is considered the “sprinting period” for the students who join the competition. They have been gathered in teams to receive special training to prepare for the competition.
In general, prestigious teachers in Hanoi are invited to provinces to provide some teaching hours to upgrade the quality of the teams. Of course, it is very costly and difficult to invite the teachers. Sometimes, all the members of the team have to leave for Hanoi, because the teachers cannot arrange their time to travel long distances to provinces.
T, the head of the physics team of Nam Dinh province, said that he once led the provincial selected team to Hanoi. “We successfully invited two teachers to train the team. We had to pay 1-1.5 million dong per each teaching shift which lasts 2 hours,” he said.
“In general, we contact the teachers through phones and discuss the timetable. After that, we lead students to Hanoi,” he explained.
Meanwhile, a teacher of the Hung Vuong High School in Phu Tho province, revealed that the school has to pay 2-3 million dong teaching shift. He said that it would be more costly to ask teachers to go to provinces. In order to save money, the school brings its students to Hanoi. Especially, the students of both Phu Tho and Vinh Phuc provinces learn with the same teachers. As such, the expenses would be halved, because each province would bear 50 percent.
Students have been whispering in each others’ ears that there are only 5-7 experienced teachers who specialize in training “fighting cocks” for the competition. Meanwhile, all provinces want to invite the prestigious teachers. Therefore, provinces have to compete with each other to invite the teachers.
A teacher of the Hung Vuong High revealed that in order to have money to pay to teachers, the school has called for the contribution from students’ parents. “We are also trying to call for the donation from businessmen, and ask for the help from the provincial’s society for study encouragement,” he said.
Students trained as “fighting cocks”
When asked about the timetable, M, a member of the Ha Nam provincial team, said that he does not have to go to school every day for the last month, because he has to gather his strength on the national competition.
“We only have to learn with the team, from 7 am to 10.30 am in the morning, and 2-4 pm in the afternoon. I feel very tired and worried. However, I still have to go to evening classes, because I have to prepare for the worst. If I cannot win prizes, I will have to attend the university entrance exams,” he said.
The students from Hai Phong said that they have been exempted from some subjects such as history or geography, and the only thing they have to do now is to prepare for the national competition. However, one of them complained that he feels worried about the final exams. If he continues being absent at many lessons, he would lack necessary knowledge.
Analysts have commented that the students can be described as the fighting cocks which have been trained specifically for a special battle field. And they need to win to deserve the money spent for them.
Source: Tien phong
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