Assign tasks instead of homework

So what should be done to make the Tet holiday for students truly happy and meaningful?

Tet holiday is for students to relieve stress, recharge, balance their psychology, reunite with their families, and have fun after finishing the first semester (18 weeks) and the first 3 weeks of the second semester (19, 20, 21) of stressful studying. There are currently two opposing opinions on what students should do at home during Tet holiday: teachers should assign homework (Tet homework) for students to do; on the contrary, there are opinions that homework should not be assigned. This is an issue that has been discussed for many years every time Tet comes and students have Tet holiday.

Schools organize many Tet activities for students.

The reason why homework should be given to students during the Tet holiday is because teachers and parents are worried that if their free time is not well controlled, students will easily get absorbed in online games, gambling, firecrackers, traffic violations... and will forget their knowledge.

However, there are still opinions that homework should not be given so that students can have a proper Tet holiday. The task of studying is in the spirit of lifelong learning, and the Tet holidays are for students to rest and have fun.

So if there is no homework, what will students do with their free time? Teachers can assign tasks to them related to stories and activities related to Tet depending on the characteristics of each subject.

As a history and civics teacher, before Tet holiday every year, I usually assign students the task of "Tell me about the characteristics of Tet in your hometown" or "Learn about the customs and practices of Tet" or "What is the meaning of the first day of Tet for father, the second day of Tet for mother, the third day of Tet for teacher"? As for literature teachers, let students learn about: "The legend of banh giay, banh chung", "The scholar teacher"... Biology teachers let students learn about Tet flowers; technology teachers let students learn about "Tet" foods of Vietnamese people... In general, depending on the characteristics of each subject, it is necessary to let students learn about the cultural values ​​of our nation through Tet holiday, eating Tet, and playing Tet. In order to help students learn about the beauty of Tet, not forgetting the cultural traditions and good customs and practices of our nation.

During a STEM activity at Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School, District 1, students learned how to make Tet cakes from paper.

For parents, Tet is an opportunity to teach children to know and experience the beautiful traditional values ​​of their family such as: offering farewell to Ong Cong Ong Tao (December 23), visiting graves, displaying fruit trays, wrapping banh tet and banh chung, setting up a Tet pole, year-end offerings... These things help children experience and understand the characteristics of our nation's traditional Tet, especially city students.

These are the cultural beauties of the Vietnamese people that have been passed down from generation to generation and need to be preserved and promoted so that those values ​​can last forever. Helping children understand their national origins and not lose their cultural identity in today's era of global integration is more meaningful than giving them exercises with numbers, dry calculations, and theories.

Don't let students complain about… Tet

During the long Tet holiday, children should have the opportunity to travel with their families to see the beautiful scenery of the country, to return to their hometowns to run through the fields to fly kites, catch crickets, and to play and bathe in the river to their heart's content...

Last year, on the first day of Tet, I visited my sister's family and saw her 9th grade nephew with his books and notebooks all over the desk, sitting there deep in thought and writing something in his notebook. I asked, "What are you doing for homework during Tet? Why don't you go out and have fun with your friends?" The nephew replied, "I really want to go out and visit my grandparents, but I don't dare because I have to do some writing and math homework that my teacher assigned me before Tet holiday."

During Tet, teachers still make things difficult for students and it also spreads to their parents when they hear their children complaining about not finishing all the homework assigned by the teachers.

Tran Van Tam (Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City)

Request not to assign homework during Tet holiday

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