Schoolyards

A teacher in Măng Ri Boarding School. -- Photo laodong.com.vn Viet Nam News KON TUM – With the desire to help minority children gain a brighter future, teachers have volunteered to leave their families for the remote Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) Province of Kon Tum to work at the Măng Ri Boarding School, reported the Lao Động (Labour) newspaper. The boarding school serves ethnic minority students in the Măng Ri Commune of Tu Mơ Rông District in Kon Tum. The school is located in an isolated area of Ngọc Linh Mountain , home to the Xê Đăng people, many of whom live in poverty. For many teachers, the journey of travelling to an isolated area, working with students whose lives are marked by difficulty, and living alongside them in the commune was a difficult one. Teacher Phạm Thị Trà My, 28, who has worked at the school for five years, told the paper that the difficulties and hardships faced by the teachers here were uncountable. “In the winter, both … [Read more...] about Teachers at remote mountainous school find love

The car that the teacher of Vân Hồ Primary School reverses and kills one student last Thursday.— VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — National Committee for Traffic Safety has ordered the Ministry of Education and Training to direct all schools nationwide to ban car parking in school premises or on pavements near schools. The order is to be enforced during school hours. The move comes in the wake of the death of a primary school student and injury of another when a teacher was reversing her car, with the registration number 26A-054.29, in Vân Hồ Primary School in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La last Thursday. In December 2016, a second grader in Hà Nội’s Nam Trung Yên Primary School was hit by a taxi while playing on the school grounds. The taxi, carrying the principal and vice principal, rammed into the student and fractured his right leg. The committee has, therefore, decided to issue the order to tighten safety for students … [Read more...] about Car parking banned in all school premises