Can I open a 'golden heart' book instead of a parent fund?

Overcharging at the beginning of the year often comes from the parent-teacher association fund, contributions to the school in the spirit of "voluntary", "support", "socialization"... but lacks transparency and equality.

Proposal to remove the "money collection" function of the parent-teacher association

Circular 55/2011/TT-BGDDT stipulates that the parent-teacher association is not allowed to collect donations from students or their families: Donations that are not voluntary; Donations that do not directly serve the activities of the parent-teacher association: Protecting school facilities, ensuring school security; supervising students' vehicles; cleaning classrooms, cleaning schools; rewarding school administrators, teachers, and staff; purchasing machinery, equipment, and teaching aids for schools, classrooms, or for administrators, teachers, and staff; supporting management, teaching organization, and educational activities; repairing, upgrading, and constructing...

But what is "not voluntary"? This concept of "not voluntary" is the cause of overcharging because in fact, voluntary is just a form, but exactly "voluntary compulsion".

The parents' association should only be a bridge between the school and parents in educating students, not a committee that "collects extra money" at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, the "money collection" function of the parents' representative committee can be completely eliminated.

To have resources to support the school in carrying out the task of teaching and learning in the condition that the investment budget for education in general is still low, the budget for the school is still limited, the support of businesses, sponsors is very much needed... I think the school should boldly call for golden hearts to sponsor funds to facilitate the school. This action shows humanity and charity and will be more supported and agreed upon than mobilizing "voluntary" contributions from the parent representative board in establishing the association fund, which can easily lead to overcharging.

The total amount of revenue and expenditure at the beginning of the new school year of a class at Hong Ha Primary School (Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City) caused a stir in public opinion.

"Regulatory" policy of socialized education

Socialization of education is an effective solution to improve school facilities, supporting schools to carry out teaching tasks in a quality and effective manner in the context of limited funding for education. However, the socialization policy is being exploited to become a shield to cover up sky-high fees in some schools, causing this humane policy to "derail" and be strongly opposed.

Public school tuition is not much, but the various additional fees add up to millions, tens of millions. In addition to modest expenses such as electricity, water, sanitation, and parking, there are countless "heavy" revenues from extra classes, facilities renovation, school and class parent association funds, boarding support, etc.

The cover of "voluntary" and the forms of mobilizing parents to sign commitments, raise their hands to vote in agreement, and even write applications to voluntarily contribute create countless tragicomedies every parent-teacher conference at the beginning of the school year. It is time for the story of socialized education to be clarified and specified with strict regulations.

The total estimated revenue and expenditure of the parent fund of Tu Hiep Secondary School (Thanh Tri District, Hanoi ) is up to more than 500 million VND with many items not in accordance with regulations.

Severe punishment for the leader

In terms of management, the principal is the person with the highest responsibility for all school revenues because he is the account holder. The revenues and expenditures at the beginning of the school year are included in the internal spending plan approved at the civil servant conference at the beginning of the school year. If the revenues and expenditures are not clear, public and transparent, the principal will be handled according to the law.

Whenever there are signs of overcharging as reported by parents, the authorities quickly step in to verify and handle the situation according to the law. Avoid the situation of being lenient and punishing in the "lift high, hit lightly" style which is not enough of a deterrent as has been happening for a long time, causing the problem of overcharging to continue silently.

Collecting the correct and sufficient amount of money and harmonizing the interests between schools and families, flexibly and humanely applying regulations on socialized education are urgent requirements to prevent overcharging.

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