Ho Chi Minh City International School wants to close the incident of students fighting

The International School of Ho Chi Minh City – American Academy (ISHCMC-AA) has just spoken out to close the incident of noisy students in recent times.

The school said it was consistent with its policy not to publicly discuss the details of any student’s behavior. “The school has an obligation to protect the privacy of students managed by the school. However, we can confirm that progress in resolving the case has achieved positive results for the final conclusion. We hope this will give all parties involved peace of mind and close the matter here.”

The ISHCMC-AA side said that it has contacted all the families of the students involved and most of them have returned to continue their studies at the school before the end of the school year. The resolution and mediation process is conducted privately to protect the students involved.

“We believe that the school always behaves properly to protect the safety, legitimate interests and privacy of students managed by the school. We have seriously coordinated to implement the recommendations of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training and have tried our best to come up with the most satisfactory solution for each family.” – the information field side.

ISHCMS-AA also said that the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City also said that it had received a full report, detailing the incident and a plan to handle the whole incident of the school. All the families of the related students have been contacted and received the necessary support, the students are facilitated to continue their studies and training according to their individual aspirations.

The school will also continue to strengthen activities educationstudent management… in the near future so that the same unfortunate case will not happen again and hope this incident will end here so that students and the school can have a peaceful summer vacation before the school year. new.

Nearly two weeks ago, public opinion stirred when Mrs. THT livestream accused her daughter of being beaten at ISHCMC-AA International School and suffered severe psychological trauma. According to this parent, when she came to work, the school did not allow her to meet her niece accused of assaulting her child and pushed the matter to the two families to solve it by themselves.

On the ISHCMC-AA side, on the school’s Facebook page, a letter was released saying that the school was very sad when the information was spread, causing negative effects, and even some information was given inaccurately. and does not reflect the facts. “As an international school, we have the business of dealing with difficult situations between students, helping them to learn and understand, and the school continues to do this privately. to protect our students with all our resources.” The end of the letter calls on those spreading the word to stop to protect the students.

The Ministry of Education and Training requested the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to direct the handling of violence among students at American Academy International School (ISHCMC-AA) and send information to the Ministry before May 31.

The Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City worked with the Department of Education of Thu Duc City (before the Ministry of Education and Training issued a document) to grasp the incident information and requested the Department of Education and Training of Thu Duc City to coordinate with the authorities. ability, the school solves the problem to ensure psychological safety for students.

According to International School Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC), on May 26, after the official school day, the teacher in charge was informed that a group of students were fighting outside, 2 blocks from the school. These students were led back to the school by the teacher in charge and taken to the medical room for a health check, then met with the school administration to report the incident. However, the exchange between the administrators and students was forced to stop when the parents of these students arrived at the school, asking the school to immediately handle the case and handle the student.

At that time, due to the recent incident, the school did not have enough information, so it could not make an immediate decision to deal with the student or the incident. The school explained this to the parents, however some parents disagreed and had inappropriate and uncooperative actions and attitudes with the school.

On May 27, through the surveillance camera system and through discussions with other students, the school found that there was a fight between a group of students that occurred outside the school’s campus and outside the school’s official school hours. The starting point is the back and forth teasing between the students, and the situation becomes tense when the students have bad words about each other. This is also the cause of the conflict. The location of the scuffle was outside the school campus, 2 blocks from the school…

ISHCMC acknowledges that there is a part of responsibility when this unfortunate incident occurs between students, causing concern to parents and commits to monitor students more closely, both academically and professionally. age psychology. In addition, the school will also learn from experience in handling situations quickly to avoid misleading parents and creating conflicting information on social networks…

Le Huyen