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Re: 直資中學
CSS indeed adopts an in-between approach, both in terms of school fee and syllabus.
Nevertheless, it takes the advantage of a DSS school as it gets subsidy from the Gov't and thus it enjoys more money resources (but still less than) a real International School ('IS'), which charges normally around $90,000 to $13,000 per annum in addition to some sort of debenture expense. Taking into consideration that many real IS's do not provide the more expensive IB syllabus, CSS seems a very good choice (perhaps for children from middle class families).
For Logos, it does not provide the MYP syllabus and is only contemplating the use of IB diploma program for the last 2 years of their secondary school. I doubt whether Logos students can go through the change smoothly. In addition, Logos (as far as I know) has not announced the school fee for their contemplated IBD course. I believe, they will charge a lot more as IBD does charge a lot of patent / franchise fee. What further worries me is that Logos provides their whole primary-secondary course by way of 2-5-4 (2-year foundation stage, 5-year development stage & 4-year mastery stage -- total 11 years) instead of the normal 12 years for primary-secondary schooling, and that the principal of Logos (as far as I remember) has said that they will prepare their students for both IBD and local secondary examinations (not either one!). I am afraid, with only 11 years of schooling, this is too ambitious and their students will become the traditional stuffed ducks. (Please note that I have no intention to offend parents of Logos students and Logos. I just say what I think, maybe my thought is totally wrong and I am over worried. Logos is undoubtedly a very good school, by referring to various discussion threads in this BK web).
Back to CSS, I did have a short talk to two CSS parents when I attended CSS seminars.
One mother whose son was from CPS stated that both her son and her were very happy as CSS imposed much less stress for them. She particularly liked the school's daily program (which as she said was similar to a University's - Students will go to different classrooms for specific subjects instead of teachers going to their classrooms). Whilst she could not comment much about the level of CSS, she stated that CPS created a very happy learning environment for the students and she believed that CSS would do the same. She added that the Chinese level of CPS was very good though its English level was perhaps not up to Band 1 level. Nevertheless, she expected that the English standard of her son would improve significantly as CSS adopts EMI.
The other mother whose daughter came from a famous CMI school stated that she was very very satisfied with CSS. She stated that her daughter was much happier and more active. She particularly appreciated the foresights of CSS principal.
I have (temporarily) enrolled my child with CSS and really want to know more about the school from parents of CSS students.
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發表於 07-3-29 16:33
