Schools are not allowed to charge students for taking souvenir photos or making yearbooks.

To promptly rectify, prevent and ensure safety for students, the Department of Education and Training requires schools to strictly implement the approved schedule for the 2018-2019 school year, and strictly enforce school order and discipline.

In particular, for final year students who wish to meet and say goodbye to their teachers, school leaders must develop a plan and organize a meeting with the Parents' Association about the method and form of organization, and have close supervision.

Teachers and students of Huynh Thuc Khang High School at the farewell ceremony at the end of the school year. Photo: Chu Thanh

In addition, it is not allowed to collect money from students to take souvenir photos or make yearbooks, which is costly and wasteful for parents and students. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden for students to use alcohol, beer and other alcoholic beverages when organizing end-of-term parties. Do not organize picnics, outings or parties in deserted, dangerous or unsafe places for students.

In preparation for the summer vacation, the Department also issued a document on strengthening solutions to prevent drowning accidents for students at the end of the school year and summer of 2019.

Accordingly, the school board needs to direct teachers to continue to maintain the daily practice of spending 3-5 minutes in the last class periods before students leave school to remind and advise them to strictly comply with the Road Traffic Law. During school breaks and summer vacations, it is absolutely forbidden to play or fool around near ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, canals, ditches, construction pits, places with potential drowning risks, or to invite each other to bathe or swim without an adult accompanying them.

Swimming class of students at Nghia Hoi Secondary School (Nghia Dan). Photo: My Ha.

Encourage schools to increase swimming lessons for students. Regularly remind parents about drowning prevention for students; let children participate in safe swimming classes, and instruct them on drowning prevention skills.

The Director of the Department of Education and Training also stipulates: If school principals and teachers in charge of school units do not seriously implement this, causing students to lack knowledge and skills, leading to death due to drowning, depending on the severity, they may not be considered for emulation or their emulation rank may be downgraded.