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Hanoi as well as the Northern and Central provinces are experiencing the hottest June days in decades.
The heat lasts so long, but in reality, students still have to go to school during the summer.
Yet, I still see many students, some in small classes, some in older classes, still having to leave at noon and then tottering to school in the afternoon during the hottest and most sunny time of the day.
Due to the intense hot weather, some provinces, such as Vinh Phuc, have asked schools not to organize afternoon classes (except for students in grades 9 and 12 because they have to review for transfer exams).
The hot weather has lasted so long, partly because we are under the impact of the hot phase (El Nino phenomenon), which lasted from the end of 2018 until the beginning of this year, and has just changed to a neutral state, leaning towards
According to forecasts of meteorological agencies around the world, in the last months of 2020, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean (Nino 3.4) will continue to decrease, maintaining a neutral state leaning towards cold and cold.
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When the hot sun passes, rain and storms will come again, which is the suffering of the people of the North as well as the beloved Central region.
Thinking like that, I feel sorry for the students.
I suddenly thought of the fact that I had read many analyzes by experts pointing out that Vietnam’s curriculum was too heavy, heavy on theory and academic knowledge, and little practical.
Let’s try to think about whether the difficult to very difficult exercises on solving oscillatory systems, implicit integrals, solving RLC circuits, differentiation, ester mixtures… are really applicable and used in practice.
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Emphasizing the context of this year, when the Covid-19 pandemic is still complicated, the risk of a second wave breaking out again is still there, the weather is very erratic when rain and storms will appear continuously at the end of the year.
I feel sorry for my children when they have to study too hard and have little time to play, develop their survival skills as well as their innate talents, art and other inner values.
In particular, give your children back three months of true summer vacation so they can have fun, entertainment, culture, arts, physical education, sports and swimming lessons… Do not organize extra tutoring or extra classes.
When the weather changes erratically and we have to live with the Covid-19 epidemic, we will have to get used to the concept of `new normal`.
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