私立學校和國際學校的分別？

shadeslayer

poonseelai 發表於 16-11-6 09:23
英文水平差異同 eng as a first language or second language 都有關，本地教育已英文as a second languag ...

Most PISs have English as first language?  Like Sacred Heart Canossian primary school, Choi Kai Yau and Victoria?

shadeslayer

Cara2006 發表於 16-11-6 23:21
I think most IB PIS like ISF and VSA have quite a lot of students taking English A.

In a proper IS, no students are taking English B bar I guess a few exceptional cases.

shadeslayer

964000 發表於 16-11-6 19:41
Actually what kind of private school is the host referring to? Local school private school or inter ...

So PIS vs IS is the wrong question to ask as they have so much in common in some cases and yet so different in others.

Parents should review both the list of IS and PIS, short list them based on other more important criteria and use PIS/IS as one attribute.

shadeslayer

nintendo 發表於 16-11-7 11:02
Just want to share. I happened to know someone that took English B as he took Japanese A as self st ...

IS students in an International Stream taking English B is definitely a very rare case Because both the teaching language and student language are English.

shadeslayer

nintendo 發表於 16-11-7 13:13
Not really that rare if certain international school had enough students to start an English B cla ...

本帖最後由 shadeslayer 於 16-11-7 13:36 編輯

then the IS in question is not what I called "Proper" IS.  I would be very skeptical.

shadeslayer

nintendo 發表於 16-11-7 13:45
Which IS is your child in? How much you know about IS? You sure you know all of them that well?
You ...

Didn't I quote my "Proper"?  

yes it is my definition of Proper IS whether it is IS by EDB definition.  why would i want to argue with people on my definition of Proper IS?

I have nothing against PIS. my daughter studied in one and almost got into another one.  

To the contrary, I said time and time again PIS and DSS are the best thing in HK education. why would i dislike them. I know very smart and bright students in DGS, SPCC.

I have suggested in this thread to mix PIS and IS together when shortlisting school by the parents.   Does that sound disliking PIS to you?

also I never claim how much I know about IS. I quoted my "Proper" IS.

My choice of words like "I would be skeptical" was far from being aggressive.

shadeslayer

Cara2006 發表於 16-11-7 14:04
IS do not only take English speaking kids. IS are schools that take kids that cannot go to local sc ...

FIS has French Stream for French speaking kids. JIS has Japanese Stream for Japanese kids.  GSIS has German Stream for German Kids.  KIS has Korean Stream.  there should be others similar cases I have not mentioned above.

For kids whose first language does not belong to one of these available language Streams in HK, like Hebrew/Hindu, ..... and their English is not at English A level, then these are valid cases.

it boils down to what do we mean by "rare".

shadeslayer

poonseelai 發表於 16-11-7 21:11
咁要睇你讀那一科和去那裡讀，有些科講明要Eng A HL, 如一個中國人考美國大學考Chi B可能被認為走精面
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本帖最後由 shadeslayer 於 16-11-7 21:38 編輯

What if the school does not have Chi A?

What if the kids study IS at Eng A level from Kindy?

What if the Asian kid was adopted by white parents?

Just looking at the surname and the color of the skin to determine if Chi B is 走精面 does not make sense.

shadeslayer

hkparent 發表於 16-11-7 19:46
If I were a parent of the German stream in GSIS, I would take German A and English B. How can a Germ ...

Of course the German stream's first language is German, therefore they do not have to have Eng A.

DSE students taking DSE Chinese at Native level and none of them are expected to achieve native level English.  Although some of the smart kids can achieve both Eng and Chi at native/near-native levels in DSE.

I was saying International stream students whose first language is supposed to be English and they take Eng B should be "rare" cases.  If an IS international stream has a lot of Eng B students, I would be skeptical.

I don't really know what Nintendo was upset about.

shadeslayer

poonseelai 發表於 16-11-7 21:38
我聽過一個case, 香港學生chi surname, 報英國UCL, rejected, 因3個HL subject not challenging enough,  ...

Was the student from a IS?I just can't figure out how the student is to blame if the school does not have Chi A at all.

shadeslayer

poonseelai 發表於 16-11-8 11:49
明白，我相信申請UCL的孩子申請前已查清楚大學要求，假設只指定那兩科要HL, 那第三個HL選什麼就要考慮，該 ...

the student can still do Chi B HL and "another" 3 HLs.