Continuing the program of the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly, on the morning of May 6, National Assembly Standing Committee member Nguyen Dac Vinh presented a report explaining, accepting and revising the Draft Law on Teachers.
Immediately afterwards, the National Assembly discussed in the hall a number of contents with different opinions of the above draft law.
Through studying the draft law, the delegates said that the comments of the National Assembly deputies have been basically fully and clearly accepted and revised by the drafting agency, the reviewing agency. To continue perfecting the draft law, delegates continued to contribute additional opinions.
Regarding the regulation on protecting the honor and reputation of teachers in professional activities, many delegates said that it is necessary to continue to amend and have clear and specific regulations for each content so that when the law comes into practice, it can be effectively implemented.
In particular, Point b, Clause 3 of Article 11 of the Draft Law stipulates that organizations and individuals are not allowed to do things to teachers such as posting and disseminating information during the inspection, examination, and handling of teachers' violations without an official conclusion from the competent authority or inaccurate information about teachers.
According to the delegates, this is a new point to protect the honor of teachers and the negative influence of public opinion. However, many delegates said that the above regulation is not enough and lacks specificity.
Speaking, delegate Nguyen Van Huy - Member of the National Assembly of Thai Binh Province - suggested that the drafting agency should have more specific regulations and consider the principle of transparency and regulations to separate transparency, avoid overlapping the supervision rights of the people, especially when teachers show signs of violations.
At the same time, it is necessary to clearly stipulate to avoid misunderstanding between the ban on disseminating inaccurate information about teachers and reflecting signs of teachers' violations to the authorities.
"In reality, many problems arise in schools such as school violence, overcharging, illegal tutoring, cutting off students' meals or cheating and errors in exams discovered all from people's sources," delegate Nguyen Van Huy commented.
Agreeing with the above opinion, delegate Pham Van Hoa (Dong Thap province) emphasized that it is very necessary for people to have a negative reflection when detecting negativity in the teaching staff.
Delegate Pham Van Hoa gave an example of school violence or other negative issues that people discovered should be reported to press agencies. Press agencies are responsible for that information when posting.
"When the authorities have inspected and checked those reports, they cannot be informed until there is a conclusion, I agree with that," delegate Pham Van Hoa commented.
Delegate Nguyen Tam Hung - Member of the National Assembly of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province said that the Draft Law has affirmed that teachers play an important role and need to be respected and protected. However, the regulations on protecting the honor and dignity of teachers in Articles 6 and 4, and 1 are still not specific, easily leading to each place applying a different approach in practice.
Delegate Hung gave an example, when teachers are abused on social networks or in classrooms, the legal support handling process is not yet clear.
"I propose to supplement regulations on the mechanism for free legal support for teachers whose reputation is violated while performing their duties. At the same time, clearly identify the responsibility of educational institutions and educational management agencies in proactively protecting teachers", delegate Nguyen Tam Hung suggested.
Speaking at the discussion session, the National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Thi Thanh asked the drafting agency, the examination agency to draft the Law on the Law of the Teacher to receive the comments of the delegates, adjust and amend (if any) and explain to the National Assembly on the vote through the draft law (expected on June 11, 2025).
