'Should add more Tet holidays for students in Ho Chi Minh City'

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Many readers commented under the article Students, parents, teachers complain: 'Ho Chi Minh City has too few Tet holidays' of Thanh Nien Online . Many opinions hope that the city leaders and the city's education leaders will consider adding more Tet holidays for students, to create favorable conditions for students, teachers, and parents to celebrate the traditional Tet in their hometowns.

Ho Chi Minh City students learn about traditional New Year's Day

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Tet holiday is also an opportunity for students to learn useful extracurricular activities.

Reader Nguyen Minh said: "Students and university students are given too few days off for Tet. So be flexible with this Tet holiday schedule, adding one more week, and delaying summer break by one week will not affect anything."

Parent Huu Tuan Nguyen supported: "The city should arrange the students' vacation time to be 2 weeks long so that the children can have time to enjoy the holidays, parents will not be pressured by long-distance travel, and also to stimulate the economy during the traditional Tet holiday."

Tony Tran said: "A 2-week break is appropriate." Reader ductribk confided: "Tet is the biggest holiday of the year, a day of reunion, an opportunity to stimulate economic development. Anyone living far away from home looks forward to the end of the year to return home to reunite with their grandparents and parents, to visit their homeland, and it is also an opportunity for students to rest. It is an opportunity for them to understand the customs and practices of the country. It is an opportunity for them to know their homeland, to know what the fields, buffaloes, and cows are like. For students in big cities, why do you force them to take a break like their parents? Tet is a long extracurricular period that is much more useful than studying theory at school. Please do not mechanically impose all issues without the consent of the people."

A parent named Ngoc Ho wrote: "Every school year, I see that there are about 20 days left at the end of the year when students only come to school to play until the end of the year, waiting for summer vacation because they have finished studying. Except for the final year students of middle school and high school. So why don't we let them have a little more time off? Going back to the countryside can also be called very meaningful study sessions."

Faced with the reality of a long summer break, and this year's Tet holiday being too short, with students in Ho Chi Minh City only having 9 days off, reader leviettuan240387 shared: "During the summer, most of the children are absent from school, so their parents have to find a place to send them or send them to summer school. Giving them a long Tet holiday creates much more emotional attachment."

9 days from North to South...

Many parents, teachers, and students are worried that this year, students in Ho Chi Minh City only have 9 days off for Tet, so their travel schedule is very difficult and hectic.

Hung Pham said: "The city has too many immigrants, so we should give them more time off during Tet to visit home."

Tet holiday helps students learn many good things

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Account TngQ... shared: "Too little rest, far from home, round trip by car takes 4 days, the remaining 5 days are divided into 2 hometowns, husband's hometown 2 days, wife's hometown 2 days. 1 more day of travel, this schedule is not for Tet holiday, but racing with Tet, exhausted".

vietnhi channel said: "9 days from north to south, from south to north by train, there really isn't a minute of rest. 26th of Tet holiday, at the most urgent, take the train on 27th. When you arrive on the morning of 30th, don't breathe, don't lie down, don't even shower, spend 5-6 hours to end the year. Then pack up and go back to school and work for your children. Don't even think about studying and working effectively in the first week of the year."

Many provinces and cities have announced the 2025 Tet holiday schedule for students. For example, Ba Ria-Vung Tau will give students 13 days off; students in Quang Ninh, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh , Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh, Yen Bai, Lao Cai will have 14 days off. Students in Kon Tum will have 17 days off.

Students in Ho Chi Minh City will have 9 days off for Tet 2025, from December 26 to January 5 - 7 days less than last year.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/nen-tang-them-ngay-nghi-tet-cho-hoc-sinh-tphcm-185241203094751879.htm