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WYmom

HK is used to be an international city where the east meets west, which is an unique advantage of it over other prosperous cities in China.  Success in HK requires us to have good English and Chinese for communication in daily business.  All HK or overseas universities use English to teach to facilitate students joining the society.  So why English teaching has to be so constrained in primary and secondary??

The market is always best controlled by supply and demand, it is always more destructive if govt imposes a lot of interruptive policies, no matter on properties or education.  I can see that the govt is trying to smoothen out the edges of HK schools, and will gradually mingo with those of China.  They are already thinking about allowing more students from China to study in HK's primary and secondary schools.  So at that time, HK no longer has any more advantages over other prosperous China cities.  Maybe this is the long term strategy of positioning HK   :exclaim:

WaWaMom

I am proud of being a Chinese. I also agree that learning Chinese is much harder than English. That's the reason I switched my kid from Int'l kg to local kg.

However, I am upset that HK's educational reform doesn't have a defined goal. Today's policy is going this way, tomorrow is another way.  Also, most of policies take place in such a rush. How can we, parents, to cope with it? That's the reason parents prefer private & int'l schools to subsidized school & DSS.

wetfoot

Matt'smum 寫道:
before 1980 chinese government,

i was old enough to konw that and experienced that and i was experienced enough from the cities I used to live across asia and europe to know the importance of knowing both chinese and english.

hk people are lucky to be in the middle of east and west and to be able to keep the good things of both.

every police, when first comes out, was for consultation. if we don't react, that will be the policy affecting out kids.

Yes, Matt's Mum, send your opinion when there is consultation before the POLICY is out. That is positive; and know how to appreciate is important. We should not just send criticism only (as those politician did) but constructive workable suggestions as well.

I still cannot figure out which Government you were refering to. But for me and many, the 80's were good old days; before 80's, those were tough but fare days with good qualities of mankind. Hong Kong started to deteriorate when people started exercising less thinking - the result of over-protection). This generation is learning (hope we have learnt) the hard way. Anyway, we need to 'see' the future. If you believe that there is future (you must), work hard for it and leave the past behind.

wetfoot

//"why English teaching has to be so constrained in primary and secondary??"//

The policy may have many drawbacks. No new policy would be needed if the graduates were possessing sound language skills.

//"I can see that the govt is trying to smoothen out the edges of HK schools, and will gradually mingo with those of China. They are already thinking about allowing more students from China to study in HK's primary and secondary schools."//

You really have to go back and check the current situation of the education in MAINLAND (not China; as to differentiate yourself from her). HK people are really崖岸自高、夜郎自大。Graduates of mainland universities are of high quality in many aspects. They are more competitive than the Hong Kong's. Actually, the teachers/tutors do not avoid any political issues but to bring them out for analysis. They know much more than you in the subjects of democracy communism and socialism, and know how to get the advantages and avoid the disadvantages of them. If we are not dreaming, we must be a frog inside the well.了解過後，你就會領悟"是吾之未始遊"。

judy

此生果報我由它創刊看到現在，風雨不改。除了陳健康事件有點兒哪過外，我看不出此報公信力有問題。

我也有買生果報，不過，我不會看港聞版。我從國際版開始看，到李八方那版止(不看那版)。然後，看看名釆。一份報紙，十多分鐘看完，有時真覺唔抵。

老實說，生果報的內文不太差，但其標題，往往嚇死人，加上其有強烈之政治取向，少看為妙(頭條港聞)。

cow

WYmom wrote,
The market is always best controlled by supply and demand

This makes me realize why the 高官 although with kids in the IS are still so eager to control the number of 英中。

ykwong

Judy 姐, Philip 兄,

有冇官方發表提供？網站都好。EMB個網頁冇提過，有冇好地方介紹？

judy

依家只是吹風，應未有正式文件出來住。

wetfoot

cow 寫道:
[quote]WYmom wrote,
The market is always best controlled by supply and demand

This makes me realize why the 高官 although with kids in the IS are still so eager to control the number of 英中。[/quote]

唔通你又識好多所謂朝中人，知道d高官仔女都去哂國際學校讀？邊個(高官)對英文中學數量有控制權都知？難以致信，我唔慣睇某報既喎！

WYmom

<You really have to go back and check the current situation of the education in MAINLAND (not China; as to differentiate yourself from her). HK people are really崖岸自高、夜郎自大。Graduates of mainland universities are of high quality in many aspects. They are more competitive than the Hong Kong's. Actually, the teachers/tutors do not avoid any political issues but to bring them out for analysis. They know much more than you in the subjects of democracy communism and socialism, and know how to get the advantages and avoid the disadvantages of them. If we are not dreaming, we must be a frog inside the well.了解過後，你就會領悟"是吾之未始遊"。>

wetfoot,

Are you starting to attack me personally?  I never say that U in Mainland are not good, I know that many of them are very good, better than the HK Us.  I just wondering why the govt has to take away the advantages we used to have here????  Pls read carefully.

ykwong

philip,

但佢自從母性大發後(驚個女嫁唔去)，辣味大減，以前ｄ故仔又過引。呢排都冇乜好故仔提供 :evil:

我最鍾意長腿叔叔個故仔！

judy

為甚麼你在BK能夠那麼出名，有我作為的的Fan屎？

別再害我。可否將"Fan屎"寫為"Fan士"，士可殺不可辱的士。屎屎聲，太屈辱了。

因為講說話除了敢言、理性外，你說話夠激、夠辣，往往學埋生果報頭條的風格：語不驚人不罷休！看你文章的風格，你說從來不看生果報的頭條，有鬼人信咩！

信不信由你。

ykwong

蘋果好睇呀！雖然一路睇一路媽媽聲。我十六歲開始睇明報，睇左二几年，終於几年前投入肥佬懷抱。市場萬歲！

ykwong

唔得，因發音不正確！最多改做 fan史啦！

ambrose

蘋果雖然有些那個, 但太陽仲離譜, 早些時候, 頭版係女生喜歡看同志漫畫, 圖文並戊. 新出時仲話"太陽一出, 黑白分明" 原來係黑