On the morning of October 30, Ms. Loi, a homeroom teacher at Cao Binh Experimental Primary School (Sichuan, China), posted on the class group: "Parents who have not yet filled out the application to buy health insurance for their children, please register immediately. Otherwise, the school will require students to stay home from school and invite parents to work. This will affect the school's teaching work, so we hope parents will cooperate."

Sharing with Dafeng News , the parents of the class said that because they were not poor households or beneficiaries of the policy, they had to buy insurance for their children at school for 400 yuan (about 1.4 million VND). "If they did not buy it, the teacher would constantly remind them in the class. Under that pressure, I was forced to buy it," this person added.

When parents asked if it was mandatory to buy health insurance, the teacher said that she was only following the school's request. Immediately after, a representative of Cao Binh Experimental Primary School said: "We are following the request of the Cao BinhEducation Department, Nam Sung District."

Regarding this issue, on the afternoon of November 5, the Department of Education explained: "To increase the rate of students participating in health insurance, on the morning of October 30, Ms. Loi announced on the class group, encouraging parents to buy for their children. However, Ms. Loi's way of expressing it was inappropriate and could easily cause misunderstandings."

After verification, the education department confirmed that the school did not suspend students or invite parents to work. "The school's training activities are still taking place, and no students have been suspended for not purchasing insurance.

We apologize for the teacher's lack of information. In the coming time, the Cao Binh Department of Education will strengthen the work of explaining and propagating correctly about the health insurance policy in schools," the representative of the department of education added.

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