A middle student who is on a one-year suspension for parodying late
President Ho Chi Minh on Facebook may be allowed to return to school after a Ho
Chi Minh Communist Youth Union chapter in the central province of Quang Nam
agreed to act as a guarantee for her.
Nguyen Thanh V., a 14-year-old
8th-grader at Ly Tu Trong Middle School in the provincial capital Tam Ky’s An
Xuan Ward, was handed the suspension earlier this month after posting a
Facebook status that her principal said insulted educators and distorted
Vietnamese history.
Many people, including educators
and those who pay close attention to education, have complained that the school
was too strict with V., even though they agreed that discipline needs to be
maintained in order to ensure order at school.
Given such opinions, the Ho Chi
Minh Communist Youth Union of An Xuan Ward worked Thursday with Ly Tu Trong to
ask them to allow V. to return to school upon its guarantee.
The student’s family admitted
their responsibility in this incident at a meeting with the school, and
expressed their hope that she would be allowed to continue studying this school
year. V. also acknowledged her mistake at the same meeting.
Nguyen Tat Thang, director of the
Quang Nam Department of Education and Training, told newswire VnExpress that Ly
Tu Trong will probably let her return to school following the union’s
guarantee.
Principal Nguyen Tan Si said that
his school will re-consider the penalty for the student, and noted that V.
should display her willingness to rectify the mistake and improve her conduct
at school.
“Her return to school is not a
big deal, but she behaves after her return matters,” Si said. “She must promise
to avoid backsliding.”
“Anyway, it would be hard for us
to manage our 1,200 students if we had been too lenient with her,” the educator
explained.
On December 17 V. posted an
‘appeal’ in Vietnamese aimed at fellow students on her Facebook page, which
imitated the tone and wording of late President Ho Chi Minh’s call for a
national uprising against French colonialism in 1946.
The 'appeal' urged Ly Tu Trong
students to use every method possible to “fight the bọn (used before nouns to
express offensive meanings in Vietnamese) giáo viên (teachers), and bọn phòng
giáo dục (education board members)” to pass end-of-semester exams because “they
are determined to fail us once again.”
“We would rather sacrifice all we
have than retake our exams,” a sentence reads. “We must stand up!”
Uncle Ho originally appealed to
his people to “fight the French colonialists to save our country” because “they
are determined to occupy our country once again.”
“We would rather sacrifice all we
have than lose our country or become slaves,” the late leader said. “Dear my
people, we must stand up!”
Si, the principal, then
complained that V. had seriously affronted the school and her teachers, and
even worse, deformed Vietnamese history with her post.
Many of her friends showed their
mistaken awareness when they supported the status, he said, adding that at the
time V. was on another three-day suspension following a fight with schoolmates.
The educator revealed that his
staff had met with V.’s family three times regarding her repeated poor conduct
at school, but the student had shown little improvement.
He said that the school decided
to dismiss her for a year only after they had already discussed the penalty at
three separate meetings.
V. said that she copied the
status from another Facebook page, making some modifications and posting it
just for fun.
“Many of my classmates also
uploaded a similar status to their Facebook pages,” she said, “so I simply
thought it was purely for other friends to read and laugh at. I didn’t mean to
insult my teachers.”
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth
Union is the largest social-political organization of Vietnamese youth, and is
directly led by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
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