On the afternoon of October 19, information from the Department of Education and Training of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City said that Chuong Duong Primary School has decided to discipline Ms. Truong Phuong Hanh with a warning. At the same time, the school will not allow Ms. Hanh to teach in class but will arrange for her to be in charge of academic affairs from now until the end of the 2024-2025 school year. The time for arranging academic affairs will start from October 21.

Ms. Truong Phuong Hanh is the homeroom teacher of class 4/3, head of grade 4, Chuong Duong Primary School. More than 20 parents of class 4/3 filed a petition to the principal to change her homeroom teacher. The reason was that she asked the parents to support buying laptops, but when they disagreed, she did not prepare the review outline for the students.

The incident happened 1 month ago. In the first parent meeting of class 4/3 (held on September 14), Ms. Hanh asked the parents to support a laptop worth 4-5 million VND, a document printer and support the class's nanny with 300,000 VND/month. At that time, the parents commented that the printer had been equipped since grade 3, the teacher should contact the old homeroom teacher to ask for it back for the class.

Parents calculate that for a laptop costing 5-6 million VND, each person will have to contribute 200-300 thousand VND. However, because they also contribute to other things, parents have to contribute 500 thousand VND/person.

Truong Phuong Hanh
Ms. Truong Phuong Hanh. Photo: Le Huyen

There were 29 parents who paid, a total of 14.5 million VND. Ms. Hanh gave the nanny 300 thousand VND, contributed 500 thousand VND to the scholarship fund, and kept 13.7 million VND. This female teacher said she would like 6 million VND from this money to buy a laptop worth 11 million VND (she paid for the remaining 5 million VND herself) and wanted this laptop to be her own.

There were 26 parents who agreed, 3 who disagreed, and 9 parents who did not express their opinion. Therefore, the female teacher "sulked" and said that she would not prepare review outlines for the students. The parents' complaint also stated that Ms. Hanh also sold food in the classroom to students such as instant noodles, sausages, etc.

This female teacher shared with VietNamNet reporter that she asked for money from parents to buy laptops because she thought "that is socializing education ". According to her, the reason why parents complained to the principal for not accepting money to buy laptops, if she had accepted money from parents, everything would not have happened.

Regarding selling sausages and instant noodles to students, according to Ms. Hanh’s explanation, her house is far away so there are times when she comes to school without breakfast. Therefore, she always has a few packages of noodles ready so that on days when she doesn’t have time to eat breakfast, she can cook at school. When students see this, they come up and say, “Teacher, I’m so hungry, please cook me some noodles,” so she cooks noodles for the students to eat. 1 box of noodles and 1 sausage is 20,000 VND. Students who have money can pay, but those who don’t have money can’t.

After the incident broke out, Chuong Duong Primary School decided to temporarily suspend the staff. Accordingly, Ms. Truong Phuong Hanh was temporarily suspended for 15 days. The suspension period is from September 1-15.

The Department of Education and Training of District 1 also organized information for the press and said that the People's Committee of District 1 had unanimously directed that the case that occurred at Chuong Duong Primary School be resolutely handled, in case of law violations (if any), not covering up violations, being public, transparent, and clarifying public information.

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