On November 20 this year, nearly 1,000 students of Luong Van Chanh High School for the Gifted (Phu Yen) received gifts from the school (50,000 VND/student) to celebrate with their teachers.
This is the second year that Luong Van Chanh High School for the Gifted has given gifts to students on November 20. The amount of nearly 50 million VND was taken from socialized sources and support from former students.
Not only did they give money for the celebration, the students of this school also received books from their teachers, with more than 200 titles selected by the teachers to create a reading habit for the students.
In particular, the school also awarded 51 scholarships, each worth 2 million VND, to students participating in the province's national excellent student team.
First of all, this is a strange story. Because of tradition, Vietnamese Teachers' Day is a day to honor teachers, a day for teachers, so it is common to see students and parents giving gifts to show gratitude to teachers, but rarely the other way around. This is not very common sense.
However, teacher Huynh Tan Chau, Principal of Luong Van Chanh High School for the Gifted, and his colleagues have a different opinion.
He said that every November 20, parents and students carry the "burden" of giving gifts to teachers, but not every family can afford to buy gifts due to difficult circumstances.
Teacher Huynh Tan Chau and his colleagues want people to have a new perspective on November 20 by eliminating the idea that teachers do not necessarily have to receive gifts from students and parents on this occasion, but on the contrary, the school and teachers will give gifts to students.
But this is a very strange, very humane and meaningful story that needs to be encouraged to be replicated in many schools and localities across the country.
This can also be considered a testament to the spice of “compassion” in the teaching profession, as Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Duc Son - Principal of Hanoi National University of Education just spoke at the Rally to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Vietnamese Teachers' Day, November 20.
Of course, encouraging the spread of this practice does not mean condemning or not supporting teachers receiving gifts on November 20. Because it is normal and should happen.
The day before, at the meeting of General Secretary To Lam with representatives of teachers on the occasion of Vietnamese Teachers' Day, November 20, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son requested that if teachers want to innovate education, they "must change old habits, ways of thinking, ways of thinking and doing, overcome limits to develop breakthroughs".
Here, the leaders and teachers of Luong Van Chanh High School for the Gifted (Phu Yen) giving gifts to their students on the occasion of November 20 every year is a typical and vivid example of changing old habits, thinking, thinking and doing!
