VietNamNet Bridge - Eighty percent of students say they have suffered from gender-based violence at least once, while 71 percent of students have been affected by school violence in the last six months. 

In addition, 84 percent of students said they felt insecure at school. The figures were released by the Ministry of Education and Training and UNICEF on December 20.

Ngo Minh Quang from the HCMC University of Education also noted that the school violence is on the rise.

Quang and his research team conducted a survey on 200 high school teachers in HCMC, 120 education managerial officers and 1,800 high school students in 12 districts in HCMC to come to the conclusion, affirming that the school violence shows the decadence in the morality of the society in general and in a part of students in particular.


Vu Thu Huong, a lecturer at the Hanoi University of Education, said there are many reasons behind the school violence. One reason is that teachers think beating and insulting students is an educational method, and parents use beating to deal with problems.

Huong also thinks that pressure of life that adults put on children’s shoulders is another reason. Their inactive lives, only eating, sleeping and learning every day, fuels anger. 

Eighty percent of students say they have suffered from gender-based violence at least once, while 71 percent of students have been affected by school violence in the last six months.

However, according to Huong, the major cause is that parents and teachers neglect their duty of giving moral lessons to students, telling them not to disturb others and respect others’ personalities. 

“If students are taught this, they will have few reasons to fight each other,” Huong said.

Some analysts say schools and teachers must take responsibility for the increased school violence because they are indifferent to the problems or even make it worse.

However, Huong denied that teachers assist school violence. She said she had seen some teachers beating children, but teachers do not encourage students to fight. 

Meanwhile, Hoang Hoa Thuy, a parent in Cau Giay district, blames increased school violence on the internet and social networks. 

“It is the internet which helps spread information about school violence cases,” she said.

Pham Manh Ha from the Youth Academy of Vietnam also said in order to ease school violence, it is necessary to have children take part in more extracurricular activities and restrict their approach to social media. 

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha, admitting that school violence has become a big problem, said citizen education may be set as one of compulsory exam subject for high school finals.

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