CDNIS parent interview

munich

After the assessment, has anyone received a call from the school for scheduling a parent interview?

TCmum2012

What's the chance of getting in if my child is on the wait list for reception? Is the chance even slimmer for Primary year one?Thanks!!!

barretb0

Queen0923 發表於 16-2-26 16:06
Just received acceptance letter, PM class yeah yeah yeah

My girl is PM class also!!! 😊

Starrynite

回覆 Suarez 的帖子

Suarez - unlike certain IS gives admission priority to debenture holders, CDNIS' debentures can only be purchased by existing CDNIS families. If you are existing CDNIS family, you can fill in the application form at school office and wait for someone to sell. There is a waitlist for the debenture; it's administered by the school.

Suarez

thanks

RondaR

回覆 bc_2012 的帖子

The interview is new this year and only parents are required to attend after the children's assessment. No one knows what happened in the children's assessment as they would asked to be in a classroom without parents for about 30-45 minutes with 4-5 other children. Of course to be able to communicate in English is a requisite but my guess based on my observation is that they prefer pro-active, talkative over shy, quiet children. But that's my guess only.

RondaR

I don't think you can purchase debenture in the market unless you can find someone to sell you the company that owns the debenture; but again that's difficult because the school needs to proof the company is an active one with business for the past few years. I guess this system is to prevent crazy back-and-forth transactions like isf or harrow's which is good in a way making cost of cdnis debenture more affordable (think around 1 mil now as compared to 6.5 mil for isf)

Suarez

請問有冇人知那裏有debenture放售, 学校叫我在市場自己揾, 如果唔係每年俾27,000.

bc_2012

May I know more about the interview for pre-reception? I am going to apply for my son this year. What kind of questions they would ask? How fluent in English the kid needs to be? Always answer in full sentence? Do they need to read or just recognize sight words? Or is it more a conversational interview? Many many thanks!!

munich

原帖由 RondaR 於 16-03-09 發表
I am pretty amazed to see how active this chat is, in particular the school is being discussed by ma ...

"They all have read the full IB report with action plan and schedule, but not extracted version only highlighting the negative aspect of school."
Exactly! That's why I don't bother to explain to any non-CDNIS parents or bystanders why I'm still choosing this school.

RondaR

Let's go back to the topic. Congrats Queen0923 and Munich! I hope you don't expect your children to attend Cambridge or Harvard or to be next Bill Gate by default of choosing this school but I am sure your children will be very happy ones ennjoying school ALOT. I never knew there is an option to enjoy going to school like my 2 little girls from primary ESP when I was raised in the LS system. Anyways congrats and PM me if you have any questions about the school.

RondaR

whose children are not in cdnis. But they chose to sit back and let the school to fix the problem. Just let them alone in the healing process. If you are so worried about this school, just move on read about other IS schools.

RondaR

I am pretty amazed to see how active this chat is, in particular the school is being discussed by many non-cdnis parents or parents who got waitlisted/rejected letter.  There's one observation (not particularly related to cdnis that i would like to share here). I am sure everyone knows how messed up HK local education system and this is probably why you are on this section of the forum and not sharing how many tutors you need to get to top 15 percentile with a 95+ score. One of the obvious reasons causing the mess up of the system was as a result of the peer pressure from parents, monsters/tigers or however you want to describe. Reality is that most of the parents including myself are very uncertain whether we have picked the right school to our children; but the problem causing the mess up is that some parents felt so insecure and uncertain that they chose to reassure their choice of school by talking other schools down or spreading rumors that are initiated by parents not from that school.  Usually rumors are spreaded by partial facts or exaggeration to the negative facts. Like I have "heard" most of the SPCC kids are not happy due to homeworks; those who discussed and exaggerated including myself are likely sour grapes who cannot get their children in there. Crazy mentality of these monster/tiger parents are the true cause of HK messed up education system. And this is why some of us had not choice but to pay 10 times more to stay away from LS.

Back on track about cdnis, there are so much rumors about this school, whether it's true, partially true or exaggerated, who knows. But one thing I know is that characteristic of most cdnis parents are very chilled and laid back (if not they would have chosen SIS, CIS etc instead of this happy school); they would be the last batch of parents I can imagine to talk other schools down; or try to defend their school for exaggerated rumors. They all have read the full IB report with action plan and schedule, but not extracted version only highlighting the negative aspect of school. I am sure all of them are more worried that those parents

Mellocup

其實CDNIS一直都是其中一所好IS，可惜近幾年內部政治鬥爭太多太複雜！

lovecasey

回覆 wylieming 的帖子

the direction of the school and management is most concerned to me if my kid is still in the early primary

wylieming

But the school has already hired new MYP and DP coordinator for 2016/17. They are very experienced and well qualified for the posts.

HKTHK

回覆 nov21 的帖子

There will always be gullible people in this world who like to read biased crap as opposed to an independent report from the IBO. But hey, there are people who read 大公報 as well! What can I say?

Birkin

nov21 發表於 16-3-8 13:21
關於那些所謂“擔憂”的
父母的真面目
所謂“擔憂”的父母所犯下的“七宗罪”：

他們貪戀勝利並以損害自己子女的利益為代價;
他們過分渴望獲得公眾的認可;
他們貪婪地企圖控制理事會;
他們懶於去尋找真相;
他們憤怒地企圖“剷除”攔路者／異己;
他們妒忌理事會在學校管理方面的權力;
他們傲慢地拒絕承認自己一直以來的錯誤。
他們的不對行為：
  ...

But this is precisely what I mean - another one-sided argument based on opinions not facts.  There is no reference to any facts to support accusations like: "他們貪戀勝利並以損害自己子女的利益為代價", "他們憤怒地企圖“剷除”攔路者／異己", "他們妒忌理事會在學校管理方面的權力"...  Who are these angry, arrogant parents that the article referred to?  Who wrote this article?  Who do they represent?  Have they formed some sort of a quasi-formal group to represent "the silent majority" and try to communicate with the school or the other "angry, arrogant parents" with some sort of constructive suggestions on how to resolve their differences?  In my opinion, this type of articles is doing CDNIS a disservice and creates the impression that the school community is still very much divided with no proposals on how to move forward.

jyk

請問大家係咪多數都有加拿大passport or siblings etc?

nov21

My friend who is a parent of CDNIS also shared me a parents website that tells some inside stories.  http://thetruthcdnis.org
The belows are quoted from the website.

我們現在要說出真相
作為加拿大國際學校（CDNIS）大多數保持沉默的學生家長，我們最終選擇站出來說話。首先，我們要聲明一件事 - 我們關心學生和學校的共同利益，而不只是製造“噪音”。

這麼長時間以來我們一直沒有站出來說話， 不是因為我們不在乎或者對發生在學校的事情漠不關心。我們沒有早一步站出來，是因為我們不想被捲入那些所謂的“擔憂的”父母製造的毀謗鬥爭中；我們沒有早一步站出來，是因為我們曾經（天真地）相信作為一個生活在文明社會的文明人，常識最終會佔上風，我們希望那些所謂的“擔憂的”父母會幡然悔悟， 意識到自己子女地利益才是首位，並因此停止無謂的政治迫害。但我們錯了！這些無知的父母堅持著他們毫無意義的行為，最終迫使我們站起來，大聲疾呼！

在這裡，我們呼籲所有關心孩子和學校長遠福利的CDNIS家長站起來，加入我們，利用這個平台，說出你的看法，尋求真理，結束這場毫無意義而又自私的戰爭，因為這場戰爭對抗的不是學校或學校的負責人，而是我們的孩子。

關於那些所謂“擔憂”的
父母的真面目
所謂“擔憂”的父母所犯下的“七宗罪”：

他們貪戀勝利並以損害自己子女的利益為代價;
他們過分渴望獲得公眾的認可;
他們貪婪地企圖控制理事會;
他們懶於去尋找真相;
他們憤怒地企圖“剷除”攔路者／異己;
他們妒忌理事會在學校管理方面的權力;
他們傲慢地拒絕承認自己一直以來的錯誤。
他們的不對行為：

如果他們真的關心他們子女的福利，為何他們製造了這樣一個充滿敵意和不穩定的學校環境，直接影響到了他們子女的身體和精神狀態。
這些所謂的“擔憂”的父母就只會針對學校的負責人進行人格攻擊，為了贏得他們無謂的運動，他們幾乎從來沒有考慮到真正重要的東西，包括學生的福利、 學生的學業成績以及學校的聲譽。
這些父母都貪戀毫無意義的勝利，卻沒有意識到他們現在所做的一切令他們的子女所接受教育的學校正成為大眾的笑柄。這就像搬起石頭砸自己的腳，貽笑大方。

這個所謂的“成長危機”其實就是由這些所謂的“擔憂”的父母人為造成的，他們只在意自己是否戰勝了這個與學校之間毫無意義的戰爭。他們受自身利益驅動，通過製造一個以弱勝強的情況，向世界證明他們正在與權力體制鬥爭，證明自我。

這些所謂的“擔憂”的父母聲稱他們正在把家長和老師聯合在一起，試圖找到一條前進的道路。但事實上，他們的做法與想法背道而馳。我們正逐步倒退，這是因為這些愚昧無知的父母拖著我們所有人一起落後！
這些所謂的“擔憂”的父母在教師、學生以及大多數像我們一樣害怕說出真相的家長當中製造恐慌， 從而迫使我們大多數人選擇沉默。他們卻居然聲稱這是一種民主？！

他們欺負那些不贊同他們做法的人，從而製造了一種恐怖緊張和歇斯底里的氣氛。當中許多受害者都是教師、學生以及和我們一樣的家長。他們正在挖洞讓我們跳下去。我們必須制止他們！