High school teachers are so strict,
unfriendly and unapproachable, many Ho Chi Minh City students complained at a
meeting Wednesday with the city Department of Education and Training and the
Youth Union.
Nguyen
Vo Nang Thuc, an 11th-grader at Nguyen Van Cu High School in Hoc Mon District,
said many teachers prefer telling off their students for poor performance and
other minor mistakes rather than trying to understand their problems and
helping them to correct the mistakes.
Thuc
explained when a student neglects his studies because of a divorce between his
parents or other family issues, he needs sympathy and understanding, not
scolding, from his teachers.
Teachers
should listen to their students to understand why they have made the mistakes,
and then find ways to help instead, Thuc suggested.
According
to 10th-grader Dam Le Quynh Giao at Tran Quang Khai High School in District 11,
the gap between high school students and their teachers is growing wider, and
the latter tend to insult, rather than provide feedback or advice to, the
former whenever they do something wrong.
A teacher
once told a 10th-grader that “you will never understand the lesson even if I
try to explain it to you for 10 more years” when the student asked her to go
over some point in the lecture, Giao pointed out.
Another
even asked “Don’t you have any sense of shame?” when his student got a bad
score on a test, she added.
Some
teachers choose to give a rushed, cursory explanation to their students when
asked for help, the student complained.
Pham
Hoang Dung, a student at Le Thi Hong Gam High School in District 3, said one of
her friends lost all interest in schoolwork after the teacher repeatedly
scolded her for poor scores.
“What
she needed was the teacher’s support and understanding,” Dung said.
A
12th-grader at Nguyen Trung Truc High School in Go Vap District, Nguyen Anh
Minh pointed out a case in which an unruly student, who was frequently involved
in violence at school, quickly changed his manners and became well-behaved
after his teacher refused to punish but patiently talked to him every time he
got into a fight.
“Students
expect more dialogues and communication like this,” concluded Dung, of Le Thi
Hong Gam High School.
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