ESF Glenealy v CAIS

cychan8

My son got offer from these two schools.  How would you make the decision? Please kindly help.  Many thanks.     

esther.cy

原帖由 cychan8 於 16-03-16 發表
本帖最後由 cychan8 於 16-3-16 15:29 編輯

My son got offer from these two schools.  How would you  ...

Hi, have u made up your mind?

For me, as I have shared in another thread, my kid is now studying in CAIS, grade 2, I really like this school because of their strong religion atmosphere at the school, very good and kind-hearted teachers. My girl was having a Filipino teaching assistant in her class last year, but she told me she likes her very much as she is so caring. Teaching staff are very good in CAIS in general. In addition, their curriculum is not bad, they also got regular dictation and Chinese test, I am happy with it.

I am a Christian and I quite insist to let her grow up in a Christian school. So my kid goes to CAIS even I am living in HK island and have no plan to switch at this moment.

There is no perfect school, it really depends what do u want for your kid.

random_dad

gigilanlan 發表於 16-4-6 22:51
以我理解上面其中一位家長的分享，一路只是講那個菲藉老師/印度TA的英文表達能力，不是講囗音，可能因為我 ...

Exactly.  Well said.
As I said before, to each his/her own in what they want for their child.  But I would like to suggest that for those parents that are concerned about the quality of English being taught at CAIS, they should have a few conversations with students in secondary years, and see for themselves whether there are issues with their English at all, and whether there's any lingering "accent".  

It's understandable and natural that parents are concerned about their kid's education, but to be so concerned and so consumed with every last detail that they take a myopic view of everything might do more harm than good.  Better to focus on the forest than a single tree.

minimirror

原帖由 random_dad 於 16-04-05 發表
I guess the beauty of the system in HK is that there are choices, and people can choose an alternati ...

well said...

minimirror

我無介意，之前我 high school math teacher speaks english with heavy cantonese accent!

happyfarm

minimirror 發表於 16-3-28 08:26
無知地歧視

老師的膚色不是問題，主要是母語要是英語。幼稚園和小學是語言學習最佳時期，跟大學學習科目不同。如果家長不介意幼稚園或小學老師有菲律賓或印度口音，那麼又是否應該不介意有廣東口音呢？

random_dad

I guess the beauty of the system in HK is that there are choices, and people can choose an alternative, no matter the reason.  For the parent that switched their child out of CAIS upthread, I trust that there are other reasons for the switch (desire for ESF, location, etc.) that she hasn't identified.  But at least for me, if the only reason she switched was because the teacher had an accent she was struggling to understand, that would be rather short-sighted, because as others have pointed out, there's no guarantee who your child's teacher will be the following year at any school.

What I really don't understand though is of the quality of the spoken English by the said Filipino teacher.  There's only a couple of them at the lower Primary campus, and I've spoken to all of them on multiple occasions, and I don't find any of their English accent to be to the point where it would be a struggle to understand.

But then, to each his/her own...

rakui

原帖由 andersmama 於 16-03-28 發表
有d人根本唔睜大隻眼睇下人講咩，就理直氣壯咁黎批評人地。

咁你又試下，如果你小朋友比個咁既老師教會點 ...

其實幾明白你意思。就好似自己以前上學由台灣人用英文授課，他的英文並非怎麼好，基本上沒幾個同學明白他說什麼。又好似家中菲傭，連he 同 she都無法分辨，這不是單純口音問題，而是根本英文不好。

ritz_ng

其實小朋友學習能力好高，觀察力亦好強，我小朋友k3都聽得出明顯口音不同既好幾個國藉。家長加以講解都幫到小朋友。反而自己宜家大左，就好想自己識聽到多啲不同口音既英文，因為宜家同印度同事開會好大挑戰。

bebemuimui

原帖由 gigilanlan 於 16-03-28 發表
我好明白上面的家長andersmama的分享，我反覆看了這個post幾次，也不覺得那家長有種族歧視，人家只是以她/ ...

錯英文同口音係2件事,ESF有口音的老師很多，但他們的英文水平遠高過本地人，不用擔心。

torunpoland

我聽到我個仔的班主任有利物浦口音，咁點呀？助教顯然是紐卡素北方口音，同級另一老師是加拿大人⋯⋯咁我又係咪要擔心個仔學唔到RP? 其實都唔使怕，因為係一世都學唔到。

minimirror

吓？ 點嘅老師呀？


唔明

andersmama

有d人根本唔睜大隻眼睇下人講咩，就理直氣壯咁黎批評人地。

咁你又試下，如果你小朋友比個咁既老師教會點囉！

minimirror

講緊批評老師唔係白人嗰啲家長 ,無知同歧視 ， 要國際化就覺得與白人相處就得, 你絕對唔係放心 ok ?

唔再評論 hehehe

andersmama

原帖由 callmebabe 於 16-03-27 發表
but I also agree this is a good school

Yes, its not bad, but depends on what you want only.

andersmama

每間學校都總有好與壞，大家唔認同我個view都唔駛咁大反應，其實揀學校呢樣野係各取所需同埋揀一間適合小朋友既學校，我無教小朋友種族歧視，老師質素都係我同爸爸既其中一個concern啫，大家唔好歪曲左或者諗多左我講既野，我咁講，係因為我仔係舊校既homeroom係菲律賓藉人士，而助教係印度藉人士，我都話助教英文比homeroom好，homeroom既野英文口音確實係令我地對小朋友學習同理解有點擔心而已，我唔係話所以菲律賓、印度藉老師都係咁，我只係講番我仔既經驗啫。因為我同爸爸試過出席家長日，分享會等等，亦親身同兩位老師溝通過，先有咁既comments同睇法，我都再講一次，係我仔呢兩位老師，唔係全部老師係咁。

無錯既係，我所見，佢舊校確實有不少呢兩個國藉既老師，但我無話過其他老師唔好喎。

如果你覺得我share我自己小朋友學習既view同感受係無知既，真係sorry, 呢個平台，就係用黎分享對不同學校既睇法。

964000

原帖由 minimirror 於 16-03-28 發表
無知地歧視

不過老實說小時候我希望小朋友接觸學習正統小小的口音，不論老師甚麼國籍只要口音不太明顯我覺得可以接受（小小口音可以的），其實咁多種英語口音我最怕廣東口音