So what should be done to make the Tet holiday for students truly happy and meaningful?

Tet holiday is for students to relieve stress, recharge, balance their psychology, reunite with their families, and have fun after finishing the first semester (18 weeks) and the first 3 weeks of the second semester (19, 20, 21) of stressful studying. There are currently two opposing opinions on what students should do at home during the holidays: teachers should assign homework (Tet homework) for students to do; on the contrary, there are opinions that homework should not be assigned. This is an issue that has been discussed for many years every time Tet comes and students have Tet holiday.

The reason why homework should be given to students during the Tet holiday is because teachers and parents are worried that if students' free time is not well controlled, they will easily get absorbed in online games, gambling, firecrackers, traffic violations... and forget their knowledge.

However, there are still opinions that homework should not be given so that students can have a proper Tet holiday. The task of studying is in the spirit of lifelong learning, and the Tet holidays are for students to rest and have fun.

So if there is no homework, what will students do with this free time? Teachers can assign tasks to students related to stories and activities related to Tet depending on the characteristics of each subject.

As a history and civics teacher, before the Tet holiday every year, I usually assign the students the task of "Tell me about the characteristics of Tet in your hometown" or "Learn about the customs and practices of Tet" or "What is the meaning of the first day of Tet for father, the second day of Tet for mother, the third day of Tet for teacher"? As for literature teachers, let students learn about: "The legend of Banh Giay, Banh Chung", "The Confucian teacher"... Biology teachers let students learn about Tet flowers; technology teachers let students learn about "Tet" foods of Vietnamese people... In general, depending on the characteristics of each subject, it is necessary to let students learn about the cultural values ​​of our nation through Tet holidays, eating Tet, and playing Tet. In order to help students learn about the beauty of Tet, not forgetting the cultural traditions, good customs and practices of our nation.

For parents, Tet is an opportunity to teach children to know and experience the beautiful traditional values ​​of their family such as: offering farewell to Ong Cong Ong Tao (23rd of December), visiting graves, displaying fruit trays, wrapping banh tet and banh chung, setting up a Tet pole, year-end offerings... These things help children experience and understand the characteristics of our nation's traditional Tet, especially students in the city.

These are the cultural beauties of the Vietnamese people that have been passed down from generation to generation, and need to be preserved and promoted so that those values ​​can last forever, helping children understand their national roots and not lose their cultural identity in today's world integration period is more meaningful than giving homework with numbers, dry calculations, and theories.