Regarding the case of English teachers arbitrarily editing exam papers and lowering scores for a series of students that Lao Dong Newspaper has reported, Ms. Mac Hoan To Quyen - Principal of Nguyen Van Cu Primary School (Quy Nhon Nam ward, Gia Lai) - said that the school has collected all test papers of students taught by Ms. T.T.K.N - English teacher - to serve the work of verifying and clarifying violations.
In addition to the 19 papers that parents reflected, I have directed the inspection team to re-mark all the test papers of students taught by Ms. N. The teachers participating in re-marking papers all took advantage of doing them in the evening, outside of teaching hours, so the verification process needs more time," Ms. Quyen said.
According to Ms. Quyen, right from the beginning of the school year, the school has requested teachers to sign commitments on extra classes - tutoring, teacher ethics and monthly thoroughly grasp these contents. Up to now, the school has not received feedback from parents about extra classes - tutoring for Ms. N. or other teachers in the school.
However, before parents' suspicion that Ms. N.'s arbitrary correction of lessons and lowering student scores is related to the fact that students do not participate in extra classes at this teacher's house, the school is continuing to verify and clarify.
The school has extended the temporary suspension period for Ms. N. to definitively handle the case. Before issuing a disciplinary decision against any individual, the school needs to have sufficient grounds and must consider thoroughly. The scene has reported to Quy Nhon Nam Ward People's Committee about the process, initial verification results, progress, handling direction and is waiting for instructions to implement," Ms. Quyen informed.
As Lao Dong Newspaper has reported, many parents of students at Nguyen Van Cu Elementary School are upset that English teachers intentionally revise students' exam papers to score low. Notably, many exam papers show signs of being interfered with by adding lines to letters, adding words to answers to falsify results.
Some papers can also be considered graded incorrectly, but these are many papers that are wrong in the same way. I request the school to verify and clarify because this greatly affects the psychology, making children no longer motivated to try their best in studying," a parent of a 3C grade student complained.
After parents reflected to the school, the incident quickly spread on social network Facebook, attracting public attention.
Through inspection, 14 parents of class 3C and 5 parents of class 4B reflected that the English teacher arbitrarily corrected students' lessons. The school has temporarily suspended Ms. N. from teaching to clarify the matter.
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.
