Where is the spirit of respecting teachers?

It is no longer an alarm, it is time for the education sector and society to strongly condemn and severely punish those involved in this violence to prevent its recurrence in the educational environment.

In fact, it is not uncommon for students or parents to behave violently towards teachers in recent years. I have said that school violence, from a certain perspective, is a contagious effect of a society where violence has become a problem. Besides, it is not difficult to see that violence today not only reflects the decline of morality, but also reflects the reversal of the value scale.

Decades ago, violence did exist, but it was only teachers insulting students and parents beating their children. Today, the opposite process is happening more and more: children insulting and abusing their parents, and students insulting their teachers. The terrible thing about the story in Tuyen Quang is that it was not a student insulting a teacher, but a collective attack. Students beating teachers is unacceptable, and a group of students beating teachers is even more unacceptable. It is not justschool violence, that's really school riot!

What is even more painful is that the riot happened just over a week after the day the whole country honors and respects teachers! What an irony! Where are the expensive performances? Where are the expensive bouquets? Where are the solemn congratulations? In other words, where is the spirit of respecting teachers?

It must be said again that we are failing in educating our children. The education sector, including, of course, many schools, is failing in educating students in morality. It seems that we are busy making a lot of money, we are busy building our image and reputation, we are under too much pressure from all sides of life, and we no longer have much time to share, teach our children with love, and teach them about love. It seems that we, during meals and before bed, after waking up every morning, have forgotten to talk to our children about values, including the value of love, the value of discipline and above all, the value of being human.

But it's not just about failing to educate our children. Sometimes I feel like we, as parents, are failing to educate ourselves.

A few years ago, at a vegetable store, I witnessed two female parents discussing with each other about congratulating teachers on Vietnamese Teachers' Day. One asked the other how they would congratulate their teachers this year, the other calmly said: "Go down to see her at school, give her 100 dollars and that's it!" Is this what respect for teachers is like? I quickly bought a bunch of vegetables to leave that place as quickly as possible. I ran, running away from that very important holiday.

The education sector and schools, obviously, cannot justify their failures. I know that there are schools where people sometimes do not show love, respect, or sharing with colleagues, and sometimes, even students. The story of principals insulting teachers and principals beating teachers still resonates somewhere. There cannot be love in educational environments where there are only orders and orders. Many teachers have complained that in their working environment, they are not motivated, but only feel pressure. Passion and creativity can only appear in an environment where workers feel secure and happy with their work.

Of course, it is impossible to put all the blame on the students for everything. As someone working in the education sector, I understand the pressure that teachers have to endure, I understand the human nature of teachers, as well as any human being: everyone has moments of anger, everyone has moments of not being able to control themselves and can completely behave inappropriately towards students. The important thing is after the scolding, after a slap in the face to a student, what do teachers think? The important thing is before and after those things that hurt students, have teachers ever fixed the students' disheveled collars, have teachers ever reminded students to pay attention to wearing warm clothes when going out...

A small action, a simple but sincere word can erase all distances and resolve all conflicts, especially for the young or the young. That is the value of love. Besides, if any teacher does not truly love the profession and especially the children they are entrusted to teach, that person should find another profession. Because simply, perhaps they entered this profession just to make a living.

One dangerous thing is that clips of school violence, including the “riot” clip, are floating uncontrollably on social networks. And how will its effects spread? Can we be sure that there will not be similar incidents in the future?