Lack of rooms, "ask" AIDS Prevention Center to be a school

Using multi-purpose house as classroom

In late August, teachers at Nguyen Trai Primary School (Quan Bau Ward, Vinh City, Nghe An ) were busy cleaning the school and classrooms to prepare for the 2024-2025 school year.

This year, the number of students increased and classrooms were short, so in addition to cleaning, the school had to renovate some multi-function rooms into cultural classrooms to ensure that teaching and learning were not interrupted.

In the 2024-2025 school year, Nguyen Trai Primary School is short of 17 classrooms (Photo: Nguyen Phe).

In the 2024-2025 school year, Nguyen Trai Primary School will enroll 10 first graders with 384 students. Meanwhile, the number of fifth graders graduating is 333.

"The school currently has 4 two-story buildings and 1 three-story building with a total of 45 classrooms. Many of these are functional rooms used as cultural classrooms, libraries, and computer science classrooms. The school is currently lacking 3 cultural classrooms and 14 functional rooms," said Ms. Le Thi Hong Lam, Principal of Nguyen Trai Primary School.

According to popular survey data, in the 2024-2025 school year and the following school years, Nguyen Trai Primary School will have a sudden increase in the number of students.

Specifically, in the 2024-2025 school year, Nguyen Trai Primary School lacks 17 classrooms. However, it is expected that in the 2025-2026 school year, the school will lack 21 classrooms (including 7 cultural classrooms and 14 multi-function rooms).

Many functional rooms are used as cultural classrooms, libraries and computer teaching rooms. (Photo: Nguyen Phe).

"The school will have to organize rotating classes, arranging for one class to have one day off during the week and go to school on Saturday. Rotating classes will temporarily solve the problem of lack of classrooms," Ms. Lam added.

Apply to be a school at the AIDS prevention center

Faced with the shortage of classrooms, Nguyen Trai Primary School and Quan Bau Ward sent a dispatch to Vinh City People's Committee, the City Land Fund Development Center and relevant agencies proposing four options to build new facilities, in order to promptly supplement classrooms, ensuring teaching and learning for students in the area.

The first option proposed by Quan Bau ward is to adjust the planning to have the basis to build more classrooms on the existing campus of the school.

Nguyen Trai Primary School arranges for one class to have one day off per week and go to school on Saturday (Photo: Nguyen Duy).

However, the problem of studying while building will affect students and teachers. Besides, when building more classrooms, it will reduce the playground and common area of the school.

Quan Bau Ward proposed 3 other options, including asking to return the land that Nghe An province had previously recovered from the high-quality vocational training center located in the area.

"This land is planned as educational land, so it is suitable for building a primary school. In addition, the location of this land is convenient for children of primary school age to go to school.

The ward also proposed option 3, asking to hand over the AIDS Prevention Center campus. Currently, this center is no longer operating, the facilities are abandoned and only need repairs to ensure teaching and learning," said Mr. Tran Hoang Tuan, Chairman of the People's Committee of Quan Bau Ward.

The AIDS prevention center in Quan Bau ward is vacant. Photo: Nguyen Phe).

According to the Chairman of Quan Bau Ward, to meet the current and long-term needs of the school, the ward has proposed an additional option 4, which is to simultaneously implement option 1 and option 2.

"Currently, the ward wants to implement two options at the same time to ensure immediate and long-term security. In the immediate future, we will build some more classrooms on site for students to study, then continue to build a new school.

In particular, the ward has proposed to plan vacant and abandoned land to expand schools and classrooms. There are many apartment buildings being built in the ward, and in a short time, the number of students will increase dramatically. If facilities are not promptly supplemented, the situation will continue to be difficult, with a lack of classrooms for students," Mr. Tran Hoang Tuan shared.

Have to take turns studying due to lack of rooms

In the 2024-2025 school year, Quang Trung Primary School (Quang Trung Ward, Vinh City) is on the list of schools lacking classrooms due to the high number of students. However, Quang Trung Primary School is luckier than other schools because it is currently building a new large-scale school right on the old land.

Quang Trung Primary School is degraded and lacks classrooms, so the school has to rent a new location for students to study (Photo: Nguyen Phe).

To ensure learning for students, Quang Trung Primary School has to rent classrooms from Vinh Industrial University located in the ward.

"The new school is expected to be built in 24 months, so we have to rent a place to study for 2 years. If everything goes well, in 2 years there will be a new school for the children to study. At that time, there will be enough rooms and classes, and the school will no longer have to rent a place to study," said Ms. Tu Thi Thu Huong, Principal of Quang Trung Primary School.

Walls and ceilings of classrooms at Quang Trung Primary School are peeling (Photo: Nguyen Phe).

Having to rent a room for students to study also causes many difficulties and hardships for students, teachers and parents. The new rented location of Vinh Industrial University is far from the old school, teachers and students have to travel further, in the opposite direction.

To ensure teaching and learning, teachers and staff of Quang Trung Primary School went to the new location to clean, repair and install appropriate equipment. Teachers also had to prepare carefully to ensure the safety of students when moving across routes so that the new school year would be safe.

Quang Trung Primary School rents the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of Vinh University of Industry for teaching purposes for at least 2 years (Photo: Nguyen Phe).

"The whole school has 1,085 students, but Vinh University of Industry only has 26 classrooms for rent, so the school still has to flexibly arrange for rotating classes and Saturday classes because there are not enough classrooms.

Moving to a new location has many difficulties, but the advantage is that we can build a new facility synchronously and also receive support from parents and local people," Ms. Huong shared.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/thieu-phong-xin-trung-tam-phong-chong-aids-lam-diem-truong-20240826221156352.htm