Schools are not allowed to keep the funds of the parents' representative committee.

A locality in Ho Chi Minh City requested that schools and homeroom teachers not stand up to mobilize funds for the parent-teacher association, and not collect or keep this money on their behalf.

The Department of Education and Training of Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City has just issued an official dispatch, requesting principals of kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools, and heads of affiliated units to strictly implement the contents, in order to ensure the implementation of funding sources for parent-teacher representative boards in accordance with the provisions of Circular No. 55/2011/TT-BGDDT of the Ministry of Education and Training.

Students of a primary school in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City

ILLUSTRATION: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Accordingly: "The operating budget of the class's parent-teacher association comes from the voluntary support of parents and other legal funding sources for the class's parent-teacher association. The operating budget of the school's parent-teacher association is taken from the operating budget of the class's parent-teacher associations according to the recommendations of the plenary meeting of the class's parent-teacher association heads at the beginning of the school year and other legal funding sources for the school's parent-teacher association."

"The operating budget of the parent-teacher association is not used for "protecting the principal's facilities, ensuring school security, supervising students' vehicles, cleaning classrooms, cleaning the school: rewarding managers, teachers, and school staff, purchasing machinery, equipment, and teaching aids for the school, classrooms, or for managers, teachers, and school staff, supporting management work, organizing teaching and educational activities, repairing, upgrading, and building new school facilities," the document of the Department of Education and Training of Cu Chi district clearly stated.

Homeroom teachers are not allowed to mobilize funds for the parents' representative committee.

Leaders of the Department of Education and Training of Cu Chi district especially pay attention to schools in implementing the creation of funding sources for the activities of the parent-teacher association.

According to the above local direction, the budget of the parents' representative committee is entirely mobilized by the parents' representative committee, on a voluntary basis. The mobilization is not leveled, there is no set standard, and there is no influence or control from the school.

"This funding source is managed by the parent-teacher association, which decides on the form and level of spending in coordination with the school in implementing educational activities. Every year, the heads of the parent-teacher association of each class will meet with the school to listen to the school report on the school's activities and education in the past time; discuss issues in the meeting to orient the general direction in organizing the activities of the school parent-teacher association, the class parent-teacher association; conduct elections for the school parent-teacher association to organize the implementation of the agreed contents", the leader of the Department of Education and Training of Cu Chi district requested.

Notably, according to local guidelines, schools are not allowed to mobilize funds for the parent-teacher association and are not allowed to mobilize them by homeroom teachers; the school also does not collect or keep funds for the parent-teacher association. At the same time, the school is not allowed to propose that the parent-teacher association allocate funds for the school's operations.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/nha-truong-khong-duoc-giu-ho-kinh-phi-ban-dai-dien-cha-me-hoc-sinh-185241109131447811.htm