Nguyen Ngo Thuy Vi, a 4th-grade student, dreads using the restroom due to its moldy smell and getting soaked to the bone when it rains because of the dilapidated corrugated iron roof.
Hanoi is pausing the establishment of new schools from kindergarten to junior high to merge and reorganize them, aiming to reduce administrative units by 50%, while retaining all 124 public high schools.