On December 30, 2024, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular No. 29/2024/TT-BGDDT stipulating the tutoring and tutoring (Circular 29). This Circular takes effect from February 14, 2025.
As noted by labor, at the present time, schools and teachers in many provinces and cities have simultaneously announced to stop tutoring session 2, stop teaching strengthening with the reason no funding to pay teachers . On the side of the teachers, the stopping of tutoring is required by the new circular, the teacher wants to teach outside the school to register for a business according to current regulations.
Mr. Hong Quan, a parent with children studying at Ha Dong Secondary School (Ha Dong, Hanoi), has received the notice that the school will give up all additional lessons.
"On the week of the week, you will return from 15:30 instead of 16h40 as before. Teaching, will decrease to less than 1 million/month " - Mr. Quan said.
As for the second child currently studying elementary school, this parent shared that the school still retains the schedule, including the second session, but parents will sign voluntary certificates to apply according to the school's arrangement.
"With my grandchildren in secondary school, right after having a notice of extra class, parents met the way to discuss the law so that their children can learn more as before. Some people give an idea At elementary school ... " - Mr. Quan said.
Similarly, Ms. Le Thi Mai Anh (Thanh Hoa) also and her parents in the tutoring group discuss how to continue maintaining extra classes.
About 1 year now, Ms. Mai Anh sent her children to tutoring at a teacher at the same school. The group has 4 friends, tuition 70,000 VND/session.
"The teacher announced to stop teaching for fear of being punished according to the new regulations, but our parents all wanted their children to continue going to school" - Ms. Mai Anh said and said, the group of parents gave the plan, temporarily moving to Study online a few sessions and then, will arrange a classroom at home. The teacher came to the student's house in the name of "coming to play".
In terms of tuition, Ms. Mai plans, at the end of the month, she will collect tuition fees and send her teacher in the form of "thank you".
Dr. Vu Thu Huong, former lecturer of the Department of Primary Education, Hanoi Pedagogical University acknowledged that there were many teachers and parents seeking to circumvent the law to legalize the regulations on tutoring, tutoring As soon as the circular was issued and not valid.
"From January, there have been many teachers asking about how to apply for a license, open the center or spleen to another direction. other...
Obviously when we are implementing new circulars that people in the industry do not support will lead to many difficulties. The tutoring, tutoring, need to be supervised and strictly handled from the beginning " - Ms. Huong said.
On the side of the Ministry of Education and Training, Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong affirmed that in principle, the school and teachers performed on time as prescribed as guaranteeing students to the amount of knowledge and meeting the requirements to meet the program of the program. .
The ministry's point of view is that the schools do not have extra classes, tutoring, so that students do not have to learn too much more pressure and unnecessary fatigue.
The leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training also acknowledged, taught, tutored as a real need of both learners and teachers. Tutoring, tutoring "big, difficult" issues and currently, has been shown through the provisions of Circular 29. It is important for the implementation process.
In order for Circular 29 to really come to life, in addition to the role and responsibility of the Ministry of Education and Training, localities and schools, the Deputy Minister also mentioned the role of parents and the whole society.
"When parents are still heavy on their academic achievement, they are not assured because their children do not go to extra classes, they have not seen the role of family education besides school education ... then tutoring , tutoring still exists from a negative perspective " - Deputy Minister said.
