VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of Vietnamese parents complain that
their children have problems when going to school because the bad learning
environment.
When preparing a child for going
to primary school, a parent would say to the child that this would be a very
beautiful well equipped class, where there are tables and chairs, teachers and
classmates, where the child is taught to become a useful citizen of the
country.
However, a lot of children find
it very difficult to get adapted to the schooling environment and they realize
that the class described by the parents can be seen only in their dreams.
Some months ago, local newspapers
reported that a teacher forced a student to stand for hours in the open air
because the student could not remember the five things the Uncle Ho taught
Vietnamese children. Another teacher reportedly asked students to slap their
own faces.
Nguyen Thi Thu, a parent in Dong
Da district in Hanoi, related that when she saw a child coming and slapping her
daughter’s face, she came and asked why the child did this, and received a very
strange answer: “because I am the monitor of the class.”
“I felt very angry. Who taught
him think and say that way?” she said. “Did he mean that the head of the class
can beat others? Is this the result of the education?”
Ha, a woman in Khuong Thuong
residential quarter in Hanoi, related that one day, she realized that her niece
was very sad after she returned from school. The girl then told Ha that the
classmates refused to make friends with her, because the girl has no father.
“It seems that children nowadays
prove to have an old head on young shoulders,” Ha noted.
“The discriminatory treatment has
been conducted even among small children. They may “boycott” their classmates
just because the classmates are from the poor families, or because the parents
have divorced,” she added.
“I do not think that small
children need to be taught such cruel words,” she continued.
Kieu Trang, a parent in Kim Lien
residential quarter, said it seems that teachers nowadays follow unreasonable
teaching method.
One day, the teacher asked the
monitor to help her manage the class when she was away. The monitor then
“governed” the class by beating the classmates with a long 50 cm ruler.
“I cannot imagine that the
teacher would give a small student such a big power that the student himself
cannot understand,” Trang said.
The stories about how to prepare
children for primary school have become a hot topic on education online forum.
A parent with nickname Xuan2000
said she was so disappointed about the first days of her daughter at school.
“I imagined that these would be
very happy days for my daughter. However, everything was quite different,” she
said.
“The monitor with a scowl on her
face knocked the ruler into the table, causing the sounds that may frighten
anyone. Then she read the texts on the blackboard and asked others to read
after her,” she said. “The monitor had eyes wide open in anger when someone
made mistakes.”
Others parents have also
expressed their dissatisfaction about the method that they call
“anti-educational.”
“Some years ago, I sent my
daughter to a nursery school near the house. The teacher there always asked the
biggest boy in the class to slap into classmates’ faces with a ruler,” a parent
said, adding that right after realizing that she decided to send the daughter
to another school.
Compiled by Kim Mai
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