Nearly 100 billion VND of the budget was spent on repairs, but Ams school is "leaking worse"

On the morning of October 15, Dan Tri reporters were present at Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted. The gymnasium area, after many months of repair and renovation, is still unusable. The practice floor is stained with traces of flooded puddles.

Teacher Nguyen Duy Tuyen - physical education teacher - said that before the renovation, the gym leaked whenever it rained, "students exercised indoors as if they were outdoors". After replacing the entire roof and new gutters, the situation did not improve much, the leaks were still there.

As evidenced by two heavy rains caused by storms Bualoi and Matmo, rainwater leaked through the brand new roof, turning the gym floor into a pond.

Đổ gần 100 tỷ đồng ngân sách vào sửa chữa, trường Ams lại “dột nặng hơn” - 1

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The gym floor is stained with water stains due to a leaky roof during the heavy rain on October 7 (Photo: Hoang Hong).

At the window positions, although the walls have been plastered and repainted, the water-soaked paint is still oozing, the iron bars are rusting, and from the outside, no one would think that this is a newly renovated project.

The school security guard led the reporter along the ground floor area, where there are functional rooms, medical room, defense warehouse, parking lot, etc. He pointed out nearly 10 spots of water seepage on the concrete beams.

Rainwater seeped through the beams over time, exposing the corroded steel inside. Despite the sunny weather outside, the ground floor of the school was always damp and moldy. The walls of the function rooms and the medical room had just been repainted and were yellowed and peeling in large patches.

The ceiling of the medical room is still leaking right where the hospital bed is. The water stain is still on the bed sheet.

Hall 700, where all school events and many other important events of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training are held, is also one of the newly invested and renovated items. Mr. Hoang Van Tap, the staff in charge of school facilities, pointed to the location where a chair was cordoned off with a warning tape, where a chair had a torn shoulder and a broken seat.

He said that about a month ago, a wall tile near the roof fell down and stuck straight into the chair. The tile was 60x60cm in size and weighed about 22kg. Luckily, there was no event taking place there that day.

Elsewhere on the left side of the stage, rainwater leaked through the cracks and ran down the wall, damaging the speakers. “Before the roof was replaced, the hall was already leaking. After the roof was replaced, the hall was still leaking, sometimes even worse,” said Mr. Tap.

Another seriously leaky area is the iron bridge connecting the headquarters with the buildings. Ms. Dang Nguyet Anh - a literature teacher - said: "On the morning of September 30, Hanoi had heavy rain due to the circulation of storm No. 10, I got to school completely wet. As soon as I changed into dry clothes and moved across the iron bridge to the K2 building, I got wet again. Even though there were two layers of roof, the rain still poured down the iron bridge as if it were outdoors. The students who passed by here also got wet."

According to Ms. Nguyet Anh, many years ago, when the school had just been built for about two or three years, her daughter, who was a student at the time, slipped off the iron bridge because the wooden floor was broken. The bridge has been renovated 2-3 times but the leaking situation has not been fixed.

Đổ gần 100 tỷ đồng ngân sách vào sửa chữa, trường Ams lại “dột nặng hơn” - 7 — The iron bridge area was rained down like it was outdoors even though it had two layers of roof (Photo cut from a clip filmed by Ms. Dang Nguyet Anh on September 30).

What makes Ms. Nguyet Anh and Mr. Nguyen Duy Tuyen uneasy is the safety and health of the students. The situation of leaking every time it rains, the classrooms and restrooms being damp, the patchwork repairs being done many times but not being completed, and other dangers like falling stone in the hall… make the teachers very worried.

Sharing with the press, Ms. Tran Thuy Duong - Principal of Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted - said that after many months of completing construction, the school still does not know whether it can accept it or not. "In terms of expertise, we do not know the root cause, because after many times of patching, the leak is worse than the last time," Ms. Duong shared.

Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted is the leading high school in Hanoi and the whole country. In 2010, the city invested in building a new school on a 5-hectare plot of land on Hoang Minh Giam Street. This is also a key project to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi, started in 2008, completed in 2010 with an investment of more than 430 billion VND.

According to the policy, the school was built according to international standards, modern and convenient according to the multi-purpose school model. However, after 15 years of operation, many items of the school have degraded.

The school construction and renovation project is invested by the Hanoi City Civil Construction Investment Project Management Board, with a total investment of 94,856 billion VND, using the city budget. The school is only the beneficiary.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/do-gan-100-ty-dong-ngan-sach-vao-sua-chua-truong-ams-lai-dot-nang-hon-20251015130813087.htm