Teacher asks for money to buy laptop and fears "which child's parent?"

Parents pay for their children to go to school, yet a teacher who has a job and a salary right at a school in the center of Ho Chi Minh City brazenly asks parents for money to buy a laptop.

There, the TPH teacher announced that she would not collect donations, but… she lost her laptop so she asked parents to donate a laptop.

She collected the money, she gave the price of the personal computer she needed to buy, the amount she asked her parents for, the amount she would pay in compensation, and affirmed: "I'd like to take this laptop too, parents."

When someone voted against, the teacher asked the parent for money to buy a laptop and asked: "Which child's parent?" (Screenshot).

"I bought the laptop, I will inform the parents of the remaining amount. And I would like to take this laptop too, parents"; "I said I would take the black one for 11 million to run data quickly, parents support me with 6 million, I will pay back 5 million. I thank parents"... Those are the messages from Ms. H informing about asking parents for money to buy a laptop.

But it doesn't stop at a teacher "begging" for money from parents to buy a laptop. In this case, the most terrible thing is that one side is begging but the other side can't give it to them, and they can't rest in peace if they don't give it to them.

She asked her parents for money to buy personal items, but she knew she had the upper hand and showed it clearly through her words and interactions.

When there were parents who disagreed with the "agree" or "disagree" vote she created, she was the one asking but she asked the disagreeing parent "whose child are you?"

She asked for money from the parents, but from the beginning to the end, she directed and acted on her own, arranged and closed the deal herself. When someone disagreed - although it was clear that the parents had the right to disagree - she turned to ask "whose child's parent is that?"

This incident, the teacher's behavior and attitude are the clearest manifestations of the two words "voluntariness" in school that have long been a source of pain.

Called support, voluntary but if parents do not volunteer, do not support, they will be named and shamed immediately.

The name calling here is always associated with which student's parent. This hits the biggest fear of parents, the fear that if they do not volunteer, their child will receive "special care".

Parents pay for their children's education, but now, not only tuition fees, they are facing a series of voluntary fees in schools.

Messages from parents in Ho Chi Minh City discussing buying microphones, printer ink, standing fans and replacing computer cables according to the teacher's "wish" in a previous incident (Photo: HN).

A teacher openly asking parents for money to buy personal items like Ms. TPH’s case can be considered rare. Therefore, when this incident happened and even when the management agencies intervened to resolve the issue, many people still did not believe that this story was real.

But let's face it, asking parents for money in school in one way or another, especially voluntary donations, is not small and not rare.

In many schools, there are many strange income and expenditures. Some places have TV maintenance fees, campus renovation fees, and in a class in Nghe An , there was a 300,000 VND/student contribution to choose a homeroom teacher.

Let me recall the incident of the class fund of more than 300 million VND in a first grade class of an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh City that shocked public opinion last year. From the cost of renovating the classroom of more than 220 million VND, plus the "combo" of painting tables and chairs, tiling 5.5 million VND, microphone 1.5 million, Internet 1.6 million... along with all the other expenses.

Later, the management agency pointed out that 15/17 expenses on this list were in violation of regulations.

The story of "begging" is not strange when at the beginning of the school year, many schools actively "complain about poverty" from the roof, the curtains, the electrical system, every year the air conditioner, air conditioner... It is not much different from the scene of teacher H. complaining about losing her laptop.

Not only the problem of money and income and expenditure, the story of volunteering in many schools is also that students do not have the right to choose.

In parent meetings, there are often bowed heads and silence from parents (Photo: LL).

Voluntary but not voluntary as Ms. H. questioned "which child's parent" is no different from some schools that require students who do not register for extra classes to submit a request and meet with the principal for resolution.

"Which parent are you?", the question of the teacher asking parents for money to buy laptops not only explains the many voluntary payments in schools.

That question also explains why many parents bow their heads in parent-teacher meetings; it also explains why they don't dare to speak up or complain about unfair fees and issues in schools.

Because behind the parents are the children…

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/co-giao-xin-tien-mua-laptop-va-noi-so-phu-huynh-be-nao-20240929063823864.htm