VietNamNet Bridge – Some educators have expressed their worry
that day boarding students, who are served in everything, from meals to beds,
would not be able to grown up into independent people.
Just order and wait
Educators have every reason to
worry that the currently applied day-boarding model would “harm” students.
Since the students do not have to do anything with their hands, they may become
“industrial similar products” with no sufficient life skills.
When students of a primary school
in HCM City were still at their fifth lesson of the day in the classes, the
cooks were busy preparing the lunch for them at the kitchen. Rations were put
on the tables in mess halls or on the corridors, ready for students to eat.
First graders had lunch right in
their classrooms, because the school did not have enough space for all
students. After the lunch time, students were asked to go washing hands.
Everything was ready for students,
who only had to do one thing – sit at the table to eat. After finishing, the
students can leave their seats and seek somewhere to play before they took an
afternoon nap.
After tidying up the hall and the
classrooms, babysitters urged students to go to bed. Blankets and pillows were
taken out of the cupboard before by the babysitters and got ready for students
on the beds.
When the students woke up, the
babysitters collected the blankets and pillows and put into the cupboard again.
After some afternoon lessons, students had some mid-afternoon meals.
The scene can be seen at many
other day boarding schools, not only primary, but secondary and high school as
well.
Le Ngoc Diep, Head of the Primary
Education Division of the HCM City Education and Training Department, has noted
that Vietnamese students prove to be the luckiest ones in the world, because
they do not have to do anything to serve their meals and sleeping.
Diep has expressed his worry that
the service would make students rely on others, which would be a threat to
their future lives.
Truong Thi Viet Lien, Deputy Head
of the Pre-school education division of the department, also said that the
current day boarding model applied at general school would “spoil” students.
Lien said at nursery schools,
children can choose food themselves, while they have to tidy up their places.
Meanwhile, primary school students can be served in everything.
“Box lunch is brought to every
one of them. They do not have to collect food, do not have to wash dishes, and
do not have to do anything,” Lien said.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
There are 604 day boarding
primary, secondary and high schools in HCM City. Of these, 268 schools ordered
rations with catering companies, while 399 schools prepare lunches for students
themselves.
Day boarding education model has
been favored by both schools and parents, because this allows the schools to
better monitor students and allows parents to save their time.
Some schools have admitted that
the model may do more harm than good, but they still apply the model because of
the lack of experiences in organizing self-service activities for students.
Phan Thuy Trang, Headmaster of
the Kim Dong Primary School in Go Vap district, said the current material
facilities of the school do not allow to organize self-service activities for
students. The school has recently decided to cut off a part of the school yard
to use as a mess hall. Until the decision was made, students had to have meals
on the school yard or corridors.
Thu Uyen
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