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  As there is no schoolyard, students there have to study P.E. (Physical Education) in the corridors.

 Due to a critical shortage of space, students don't have a schoolyard or place for their P.E classes, which can badly impact their health, Principal Nguyen Van Giau said.

  According to Giau, when ordering that the bookstore be set up on the ground floor supposedly to serve local people, the Districts People Committee had said the school would be moved to a new site under a project prepared in 1995.

However, so far nothing has been done as no land is available, the principal said.

Thanh Nien found out that the new school was planned to be built in Ward 11, where compensation costs have increased ten times from the original estimate of VND3 billion (US$168,161).

And the Ly Thai To school was not named in Districts list of schools proposed for construction submitted to the municipal authorities this year. 

In the meantime, the current school, which was modified from an old theater going back to the 1960s, is deteriorating, according to Giau.Also located in District 8, An Phong Primary School is facing a similar situation.

While students have to study in 14 degraded classrooms allocated at two different places, facing difficulties like floods after heavy rains, the project of building a new school approved in 2006 is yet to begin, said Principal Trinh Duc Hau. 

If no new school is built the next school year, its certain that some of the students will have to study in the evening because of a shortage of classrooms, Hau said. 

Other districts like Binh Thanh, District 5 and 11 are also holding up many school projects for years for different reasons, including problems in site clearance, according to Thanh Nien correspondents.

Before the school year of 2009-10 began last month, officials and experts had warned that the annual dearth of classrooms would be worse this year. Only 600 new classrooms were constructed for the new school year, while its estimated that every year HCMC needs 1,500-1,800 new ones on average. 

Source: Thanh Nien, SGGP 

Students in several HCMC districts have had to do with ill-equipped, run-down schools for many years now with the plan to build new ones making no progress.     Students in a degraded classroom at the Van Nguyen Primary School in HCMC’s District 8

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