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Re: 有冇弘立小學媽咪
Hi Myjewel and Cristal,
I do not really know how the financial assistance scheme works. Just email the school and ask. I'm sure someone will deal with your questions. To my knowledge, submitting a financial assistance application will not prejudice your kids' chance of success.
The school fee is of course not cheap. But, how much are people spending on outside school English and Putonghua classes nowadays? A good Putonghua course (such as the courses offered by Earth Village) will cost you $1,500 a month, and a good English course may cost you another $1,000 or likely more. Adding the costs of a few other classes such as drawing, dancing and music, I guess it is not uncommon that people are spending $4,000 or more on top of regular school fee. ISF does offer a range of activities. The kids have Chinese, English, maths and "guided discovery" classes in the morning, and PE, Chinese martial art, dancing, drama, music, painting and other activities classes in the afternoon. All these activities classes are part of the curriculum, not extra-curricular activities, and are conducted in either English or Putonghua. You may well rely on the English and Putonghua programme offered by the school and take your kids out of some of those expensive privately run activities classes. That can save you quite a lot of money. Also remember that the school fee include all teaching materials and costs of field trips etc. The only extra costs are school bus and meal. The ISF model is indeed an expensive one (high teacher/students ratio, activities based ...) But for the donations secured by Professor Kao Kuen, the school would be running at a loss with its present population (Professor Gao told me that in a parents teachers meeting).
It is a shame that the school hasn't updated their website. Mrs Dorothy Chan was there for a few months to fill the gap left by the leaving of Ms Tsang. The present primary school principal is a lady from Canadian International School.
There are P2, P3 and P4 students joining ISF from other local students. I understand from the teachers that they take no time to adjust to the new environment. Kids can learn really fast. I wish I were like them.
As for Yew Chung, I do not know much about it as I have been concentrating on schools on the island side. Why we did not choose other international schools? My wife and I did at one time seriously consider sending our girl to an ESF school. And we also like HKUGA (to a certain extent ISF is like a mini HKUGA). Let me tell you a story, my wife and I were once interviewed by the principal of a well known school. At the very end of the interview, I asked the principal about the school bus arrangement and I got this (in exact wordings), "weeeeell, our kids come in their own cars, driven by their own drivers. Even if they don't have a home driver, their non-working mums will drive them to school". What the hxxx was that? I'd seen their school buses a few times, on the road, with 6 or 7 kids in it, and driven by someone whom I did not believe was the kids home driver. Sending my girl to one of those most "privileged" schools is likely to bring out some cultural or social conflicts. I don't want my girl ask me "Dad, why don't you drive a Mercedes?", "Should we not move to a house with internal staircases?" (these are actual questions that an innocent young boy asked his father, who is a doctor at a government hospital). I have a bias against certain schools. But, as it is nothing but a personal bias, I should not detail it.
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發表於 04-9-2 19:51
