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Not only that it is becoming harder and harder to switch to international schools by the year, you also need to consider the difficulty faced by the child in adapting to the switch. And this assumes the child keeps up with his/her English fluency to be able to switch to an international school. (Trust me, it is not at all easy trying to be able to speak like native not being in a complete English speaking school environment, unless you are a native English speaker at home)
The difficulty comes from the fact that international schools use the IB (IB similar) curriculum. The training is all about developing in-depth reading & writing, and critical thinking abilities. How to communicate and how to make your point of view presented to others. A lot of debates, critical literature reviews, projects and presentations. Kids in international schools are trained starting from Day 1 of Year 1.
Now imagine a kid who has gone through of 6 years of traditional education in which he/she is trained in filling in the blanks, multiple choices, memorizing facts and figures. Then there you have it, boom... you put him/her in a totally unstructured learning environment in which he/she is required to write a lot of essays, presenting his/her ideas to the class. Not easy. Some very smart kids have done the switch successfully. Some do it even later when they go on to universities overseas. But not easy, not easy at all.
I see many parents are trying to have it both ways, but only a very few can achieve that, and usually these are the ones whose kids are super smart anyway. They do very well whatever school system you put them in. Note this, most of our kids are good and smart, but not super smart. Let them have a happy learning experience if you can afford it.
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