Hundreds of parents "surround" the school: School is about to start, but their children don't know where to study.

Hàng trăm phụ huynh vây trường: Sắp khai giảng, con chưa biết học đâu - 1 — At 9am, more and more parents came to school (Photo: Hoang Hong).

As of 9am today (August 21), the number of parents present at Tay Mo 3 Primary School reached nearly 400 people. Parents were upset because the children of residents in this area had waited for nearly 3 months of summer with the hope of studying at Tay Mo 3 Primary School - the school right in front of their house.

However, yesterday, when meeting with the school principal, the answer they had was that there were no plans to accept applications.

A parent who asked to remain anonymous told Dan Tri reporter: "We have gone back and forth dozens of times, asking around to see when the school will enroll students.

The old school told us to go to the new school on August 21 to submit our application and get the acceptance letter. But now we can’t call the principal of the old school anymore.

We met the new school principal, she said she had just started her job and had no authority to decide on admissions. When we asked her when to submit applications, she beat around the bush and refused to accept applications.

Hàng trăm phụ huynh vây trường: Sắp khai giảng, con chưa biết học đâu - 2 — Parents were allowed into the school yard to wait for the Board of Directors (Photo: Thanh Dong)

"The new school year is 2 weeks away, and the deadline for submitting applications is still unknown. No one knows how the school will allocate students. Our house is opposite the school, and the furthest person lives less than 1km away. No one has any information about whether their children will be transferred here to study.

Why is it that the newly built school is located right in our residential area, but we have to travel 4-5 kilometers, through a road full of container trucks, dusty, with many potholes to go to school?", Mr. T.D.Q was upset.

Hàng trăm phụ huynh vây trường: Sắp khai giảng, con chưa biết học đâu - 3 — Parents sat down and wrote transfer applications right there in the hope that their children would be able to study near their home instead of having to travel 4-5km like last school year (Photo: Thanh Dong).

Faced with hundreds of parents present in front of the school gate, Vice Chairman of Tay Mo Ward People's Committee Nguyen Dang Cuong was present to restore order.

Mr. Cuong wanted parents to gather in the community house area to discuss, but parents said they wanted to gather in the school to meet the school board.

At around 9:05, school security opened the gate for parents to move inside, avoiding traffic jams and crowds gathering in front of the gate.

Parents are now present in the school yard, lining up according to their children's grades and submitting their applications to the parent group representative.

The principal of Tay Mo 3 Primary School has not yet been present at the school to receive parents.