‘My children’s school sells books in combos for 900,000 VND a set, students are required to buy them all, while I have three children’.
Vietnam Education Publishing House has just announced new textbook shelf of grades 3, 7, 10 in two sets of “Connecting knowledge to life” and “Creative horizons”, applied from the school year 2022-2023. The prices of these books are two to three times higher than the current ones.
Talk about increase the price of textbooksReaders Nguyen Hong Ngoc status sharing: “My children’s school sells books by combo, students are required to buy everything, including textbooks, a variety of reference books, school supplies and notebooks. My three children are in primary school, each child costs about 900,000. VND for such a combo.. There are cases where parents buy one or two books outside, unlike the school’s books, so the next time they have to buy them from the school. My child sometimes loses a book, I buy it at retail. They usually get 15% off when they buy a lot, but they don’t get any discount if they buy a lot at school.”
Let’s think about the inadequacies of the new textbook, readers Ha Le suppose, I think: “My child is in 4th grade. At the beginning of this year, he also had to buy books and learning tools for more than 500,000 VND, surprised to hear that. At such a price, what will happen to students from difficult families? Poor quality books, easily chipped cover, chipped pages. Books change constantly, in just three years, the first grade books have changed all three types. Every type is heard by the publisher as good, so why change it so much? Then study by class, but two different schools study two different types of books. This year my child is in grade 1, I don’t know what books she can learn anymore?”.
“My family has to buy a whole set of books for nearly a million dong, very many unused books. Having not finished grade 3, the school sent a list of next year’s books without any guidance or selection. Psychological parents are afraid that their children will lack books, so they have to buy them all, only some families with children who have studied before can choose books to buy.Readers Ruanlaoshi additional.
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According to the publisher’s explanation, the book increases in price because it is designed in the direction of developing the quality and capacity of students, enhancing the image with vivid and attractive presentation and illustrations; larger book size; more books in each series (mainly serving subjects such as Physical Education, Experiential activities, and career guidance).
However, not satisfied with this explanation, readers Flower emphasize: “Please let me ask, if you don’t study for a whole year in physical education books, you will force students to have: exercise notebooks, notebooks, review notebooks, sketchbooks, tables, calculators… A day for 4-5 subjects like that. , try asking yes shoulder the child are not? Children need to be active, but the hours of exercise are too little because physical education is neglected. Today, children go to school at 6:30, so they do not have time to eat a full breakfast. Therefore, it is easy to see children sitting temporarily at the school gate gnawing on a loaf of bread, or leaning on a tree to quickly eat a pack of sticky rice before entering class. Just that image makes me feel numb.”
Talking about the existing inadequacies related to the new set of textbooks, which need to be resolved soon, readers Quynhngabr252 specify: “In my opinion, there are several limitations of current textbooks:
1. The price of the book is too expensive.
2. The book of physical education is not necessary (grade 1 has not finished learning the letters, but also has to read the physical education book for what?). In the past, when I went to school, there was no physical education book, I listened to what the teacher said and followed it. This is one thing waste.
3. The workbooks are too many. Students do not have time to use and do not see much use.
4. Each place has a different list of self-selected books, so it cannot be passed on to juniors (using another set of books).
So many things inadequacies of reformed textbooks It’s enough to give parents a headache.”
The new school year 2021-2022 is the second year the education sector implements the 2018 general education program, but recently there have been many controversies about the limitations of some textbooks. From the story “hotel” in the first grade Vietnamese textbooks (Canh Dieu book series), grade 6 Natural Science textbooks (Connecting knowledge with life book series), grade 2 Vietnamese textbooks, books textbook of Grade 6 Literature (the book series Connecting knowledge with life) to the noisy stories of not teaching the letter “p” in the 1st grade Vietnamese book (the book series Connecting knowledge with life).
Looking back at the reforms and changes in curricula and textbooks over the past 20 years (since the implementation of the fourth education reform in 2000), basically, education reform still faces many difficulties. difficulties, only at a fragmentary level, but there have not been comprehensive positive changes. Textbooks are still an exclusive product of Vietnam Education Publishing House, leading to the situation that many books are designed for one-time use and then discarded. Plus the experience of dozens of load reductions, theme integration, and changing a book every year… causes a lot of waste in society and puts pressure on parents and students.
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