Ho Chi Minh City: Head of class parent representative committee "came up with" revenue and expenditure plan to mobilize parents

(NLDO) - A revenue and expenditure plan of an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh City has caused a stir with planned expenditures that are not in accordance with regulations.

In recent days, social forums have been buzzing about a projected income and expenditure table at an elementary school. This table clearly states that the class fund will be collected at 400,000 VND/parent. The class has 40 students, so the estimated amount of revenue will be 16 million VND.

The expected revenue and expenditure table also clearly shows each expected expenditure such as school fund, November 20 flowers, November 20 party, October 20 gifts, October 20 flowers, Tet gifts, March 8 gifts, year-end gifts for students, year-end party...

According to the above proposed table, there are a total of 20 items listed for spending during the school year. Many of the proposed spending items listed in this draft table are noted as spending for teachers and class nannies.

Specifically, buying flowers and gifts for the homeroom teacher and the nanny of the class cost a total of 1,500,000 VND. The content of giving gifts on November 20 to the homeroom teacher, nanny, English teacher and other subject teachers of the class cost a total of 3,500,000 VND. Of which, the homeroom teacher received 1,000,000 VND, the nanny and English teacher received 500,000 VND/person, and 5 other subject teachers received 300,000 VND/person in the form of envelopes...

The draft also stated that there is an expected expense for printing documents for students of the class during the year (expected to be 9,120,000 VND), the school fund is expected to contribute 3,500,000 VND and the expected expense for co-school activities may be 1,200,000 VND.

With 40 students in the class, it is expected that each student will contribute 400,000 VND, which means the total amount collected will be 16,000,000 VND, and the estimated amount that needs to be spent is 28,820,000 VND. The budget also shows that there is still an additional 12,820,000 VND that needs to be collected to have enough money to cover the expenses.

Many parents believe that Circular 55/2011 of the Ministry of Education and Training clearly stipulates that parents' money cannot be used to give to schools or give gifts to teachers, buy equipment or decorate classrooms... but the above expected revenue and expenditure table still shows it.

According to the investigation of the reporter of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper , the expected revenue and expenditure table spreading on social networks as above belongs to class 1/4, Bui Van Moi Primary School (Phuoc Long Ward - Ho Chi Minh City).

The expected income and expenditure table causes a stir on social networks

Principal: The school and class do not organize any fundraising activities.

Mr. Vu Nhu Ngoc Phach, Principal of Bui Van Moi Primary School, said that as soon as information about the expected revenue and expenditure table spread on social networks, the school discussed with teachers and the parent representatives of the 1/4 grade students of the school.

Mr. Phach confirmed that this is a draft table of the class's income and expenditure for the 2025-2026 school year. However, this table was posted by the head of the class's parent representative committee in the class's zalo group, but the homeroom teacher was not present in this group, so she did not know.

The principal of Bui Van Moi Primary School added that through discussions and work with the school leaders, the head of the parent representative committee of grade 1/4 students said that this draft was thought up by the head of the committee himself, and then posted on the Zalo group for discussion.

According to Mr. Phach, this is the second class leader. The first class leader, when attending a meeting with the school, heard about the school's regulations but then refused to do them. This second person has not yet heard about them from the school.

The school leaders affirmed that the head of the class's parent representative committee arbitrarily calling on parents to contribute to the class fund and arbitrarily proposing spending contents was wrong. No one allowed the class to mobilize parents to contribute to the school fund. The school absolutely does not have any mobilization fund named after the school fund. As for giving gifts and money to teachers during the holidays, the school leaders have long required teachers to refuse all of this, because the heart of teachers is to teach students well.

Circulars 55 and 16 have been thoroughly disseminated and disseminated by the school to teachers and parents in the school, but there are still violations in the class, so the principal admits the mistake and takes responsibility before all the parents of the school for letting this happen.

The leaders of Bui Van Moi Primary School also emphasized that they had instructed the parents' representative board of class 1/4 that some parents in the class had already paid, and that they must immediately return the money to them. The contents of the draft mentioned above must be canceled by class 1/4, and no content must be implemented.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/tp-hcm-truong-ban-dai-dien-phu-huynh-lop-tu-nghi-ra-thu-chi-de-van-dong-phu-huynh-196251017082809307.htm