The fact about the student in primary school

My neighbor had a little son who is studying in grade 2 of a primary school and he was a excellent student. One day, his parent asked me to teach math for him in a short time and I realized that he could not calculate and did the sum or minus in math. When I asked him about knowledge of grade 2, he could not answer any questions and I must teach him how to calculate in math. It is not a simple thing like I though because he can not distinguish between sum and minus, sometimes he can do exactly but he don't understand why he must do that. It is too difficult to teach him and explain for him why it is. There is a problem that he is a slow boy in studying. I wondered why he could pass in his exam and what his teacher taught to him. And I wondered the reason why we had the students like this boy in our education.

In my opinion, there are many reasons but the most important reason is that the program became the hard for student and teacher too. There are many things the teacher must teach but the time of period is not enough for them. Beside that, there are too many students  in a class about 44-48 students/class. In the primary school of  Vietnam, there was a teacher for a class and the teacher must teach almost of subject. A teacher can not care all of students in class. In fact, almost of teacher in primary tutor at home and in some cases, the teacher just note the kid was studying at their home and the other students, they don't care too much. Racing achievement of teacher,school, Ministry of Education made studying in school special in primary school became hard, not interesting with children.

The boy I met is an example. His parents told me that when he was studying in grape 1, they were too busy so they gave him to study at his teacher's home beside studying at school and they thought that it was a best choice for him and his teacher would show him about the knowledge of grade 1 and he was a excellent student in the last of grade 1. When he studied at grade 2, the teacher found that his knowledge had a problem and at this time, his parents realized that his knowledge of son was not good like they thought. Although his teacher and parents tried to teach him but he can not remember all of knowledge he was taught.

Some of the students like this boy were slow to canculate and the teacher in class can not help them carefully because they don't have enough time, too have many students they must care and they must finish their lectures. Of course, the teachers must not be blame completely  in developmet of kids, in development of education and in special case like this boy because the ability of learners is very important too. But we can not disaffirm the role of teacher in education. Maybe we should have a class of the special kid, not for the handicapped of kids. We always said that the children is future of our country but with our education is present, we should have a question for our future when the quality of education have too many problem.