On February 8, the Department of Education and Training (GDĐT) of Gia Lai province said that it had reported to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee on the results of resolving the incidents occurring at Nguyen Van Cu Primary School (Quy Nhon Nam ward) after the reflection of Lao Dong Newspaper.
Regarding the content reflecting "Parental representative board accused of overcharging, school forced to stop sponsoring", Quy Nhon Nam Ward People's Committee held a meeting to review the illegal mobilization of funds for Nguyen Van Cu Elementary School.
The collective leadership of Nguyen Van Cu Primary School held a meeting of all officials to seriously review and rectify. By February 2nd, the school coordinated with the Parent Representative Board (BĐDPH) to fully refund all the funds illegally mobilized from parents.
According to the Gia Lai Provincial Department of Education and Training, Quy Nhon Nam Ward People's Committee will review the entire team of school management officials to arrange, rotate, consolidate, and supplement according to regulations, in order to ensure management and professional direction, contributing to stabilizing and improving the quality of education in the area.
Regarding the content reflecting Ms. T.T. K.N - English teacher - arbitrarily correcting the end-of-semester I test of the 2025-2026 school year of students, the Principal of Nguyen Van Cu Primary School disciplined Ms. N. with a warning, and at the same time did not assign teaching and arrange to perform clerical work tasks.
The school principal also directed the organization of reviewing and re-evaluating all test papers of students taught by Ms. N. to ensure accurate, objective, and fair evaluation results.
Gia Lai Provincial Department of Education and Training requests Quy Nhon Nam Ward People's Committee to organize a review of responsibility and handle according to its authority the Principal of Nguyen Van Cu Primary School for allowing BĐDPH to mobilize, receive, and use sponsorship funds in violation of regulations, causing press reflection and parents to be upset, creating bad public opinion for the school and the provincial Department of Education and Training.
Implement the transfer of positions for the Principal of Nguyen Van Cu Primary School. At the same time, direct directly affiliated educational institutions to strictly comply with regulations on collections, mobilization, sponsorship and extra classes and tutoring. Strengthen inspection of the implementation of collections, mobilization, sponsorship at educational institutions; extra classes and tutoring activities outside the school, promptly rectify and handle violations.
Conducting illegal donations of hundreds of millions of VND
According to reports, from the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, the Management Board of Nguyen Van Cu Elementary School has mobilized parents to donate money to build canopies and clean up, with a total planned amount of 624 million VND for 52 classes, each class 12 million VND.
As of January 16, 2026, BĐDPH has mobilized more than 469 million VND. Of which, the mobilized cost of building rain shelters is more than 153 million VND and mobilizing labor to clean student toilets is more than 316 million VND.
The total amount spent on the rain shelter arch item is more than 159 million VND; hiring cleaning workers is 153 million VND (as of December 31, 2025) and the remaining amount is more than 156 million VND. In the second semester, BĐDPH continued to mobilize parents to donate more than 110 million VND to maintain cleaning activities...
Teachers arbitrarily revise exam papers, lower scores for a series of students
Many parents of students at Nguyen Van Cu Elementary School are upset that English teachers intentionally revise exam papers and lower students' scores. Notably, many exam papers are interfered with by adding lines to letters, adding words to answers to falsify results.
Through inspection, Nguyen Van Cu Elementary School determined that 14 parents of class 3C and 5 parents of class 4B reflected that English teachers arbitrarily corrected students' lessons.
Working with the school's verification team, Ms. N. admitted to arbitrarily correcting students' lessons. Explaining this, Ms. N. said that in the class, many students achieved high scores, worried that students would be subjective in their studies, so she interfered with the test, not because the students did not go to extra classes at her house.
Before Ms. N.'s explanation, leaders of Gia Lai Provincial Department of Education and Training said that this explanation is unreasonable and misleading in viewpoint. According to leaders of the Department of Education and Training, scores reflect the actual ability of students, so teachers cannot arbitrarily correct lessons or lower students' scores just because they are worried that students getting high scores will be subjective in their studies.
