School representatives came to the teacher's house to encourage her.

The above information was provided by Mr. Vo Cao Long, Head of the Department of Education and Training of District 1, at a quick exchange with the press regarding the incident in which a teacher at Chuong Duong Primary School asked parents for financial support to buy a laptop, on the morning of October 1.

On the evening of September 30, the Board of Directors of Chuong Duong Primary School quickly established a working group including representatives of the Department of Education and Training of District 1, the Party Committee, the Board of Directors, the School Union, and the People's Inspectorate to meet and encourage Ms. Hanh.

Responding to the press's question about the reason the school encouraged the teacher who was being reported for wrongdoing, Mr. Long explained: "Encouraging here means that in life everyone has decisions that are timely and sometimes hasty. The working group came to her house to find out her information, feelings, and thoughts ."

Mr. Long also informed: " The school's board of directors has asked teacher Truong Phuong Hanh to clarify the content related to her that is being uploaded on social networks and submit it before 9:00 a.m. on October 3. "

Mr. Vo Cao Long, Head of the Department of Education and Training of District 1, provided quick information regarding the incident in which a teacher asked her parents for support in buying a personal laptop, on the morning of October 1. (Photo: Nguyen Quynh)

Mr. Long said that the leaders of District 1 had met and agreed to resolutely handle violations of the law (if any), not cover up violations. The handling will be done publicly, transparently, and clarify public information.

The Department of Education and Training and the school assigned Ms. Dinh Thi Kim Thoa, Vice Principal, to be in charge of teaching this class, replacing Ms. Truong Phuong Hanh, homeroom teacher of class 4/3.

Yesterday afternoon, she proactively interacted with the parents of the class. When they learned that the vice principal would replace Ms. Hanh, all parents agreed to let their children return to school. This morning, October 1, 36 out of 38 students of class 4/3 returned to school, 2 were absent due to illness.

According to Mr. Long, through the above incident, the People's Committee of District 1 has assigned the Department of Finance and Planning, the Department of Education and Training to coordinate with relevant units to promptly advise on the inspection of revenue and expenditure at the beginning of the school year of schools in the area.

In the coming time, the Department will direct the assignment of personnel to monitor, share and grasp the content of educational institutions in the area, to promptly remove difficulties and handle arising problems.

Previously, regarding the incident, Mr. Le Cong Minh, Principal of Chuong Duong Primary School, said that the school had decided to temporarily suspend Ms. Hanh from teaching for 15 days.

"We are not covering up, we are just processing, please give parents time to resolve it," Mr. Minh affirmed.

As for Ms. Truong Phuong Hanh, the main character in the campaign to mobilize parents to contribute money to buy personal laptops, she met the press on the morning of September 30 to explain the incident.

Ms. Hanh said that she lost her laptop at school in the 2022-2023 school year. This year, class 4/3 is equipped with a TV, so she wanted a laptop to prepare lessons and connect to the TV to facilitate teaching.

“I did not ask the principal’s opinion from the beginning about this because I thought that asking to buy a laptop was a normal thing, in line with the policy of socializing education, the State and the people do it together, many people do the same. I do not equalize but rely on the voluntary spirit of parents. If there is no laptop, the TV will be a waste,” Ms. Hanh said.

After the Principal got the information, he instructed Ms. Hanh not to accept the support money from the parents. Therefore, on September 16, Ms. Hanh created a poll on the zalo group of parents about agreeing/disagreeing to support money to buy laptops.

Regarding the reason why the school board of directors did not immediately refuse but had to create a vote, Ms. Hanh explained: " I created a vote to have a reason to refuse, because if someone complained to the school, there would be people who would disagree."

As for the question "Which child's parent?" with the voter disagreeing, it was because the class had 38 parents so they didn't know who was who.

“Many people think I am angry, but I am not angry with the parents. I still love and teach the children normally,” Ms. Hanh affirmed.

Regarding not preparing a lesson plan after the unsuccessful request for money to buy a laptop, Ms. Hanh said that in elementary school, there is no lesson plan and teachers only instruct on review content during tests.

After the incident, Ms. Hanh apologized to the parents, hoping they could rest assured that she was still teaching and loved her students. However, many parents still asked to transfer their children to another class.

It is known that Ms. Truong Phuong Hanh has 30 years of experience working in the education sector and 18 years of teaching at Chuong Duong Primary School.

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