I'm not targeting international school as well. And I plan to apply for traditional schools and DSS (not so newly established). For me, I prefer choosing KGs which do not lie on the 2 extreme ends i.e not "too pushy" and not "too happy". In fact, "happy" is ok as long as the kids are learning something. To me, THINK has wide range of activities and at the same time, good enough academic level (e.g. in lower nursery, they start recognising simple Chinese words such as "Big" "Small" etc) and I heard that her Eng would be more demanding after promoting to K2 and 3 too.
I hope i'm making a right choice also :)
原帖由 toreship 於 09-11-9 14:25 發表
Hi twinsstar,
I am thinking of putting my daughter in Think too, but is worried that it is a "too happy" school and not academic enough for HK priary schools. I don't plan to put my daughter in Inter ...
I talked to some NETs at Think, but I think they're OK. As the teacher my daughter interviewed was a Chinese, I didn't know there was a NET in the interview room.
I don't mind the accents. But I heard an Indian teacher at another KG saying 'mouth' as 'mouter' and change all 'th' sound to 'ter'! Horrible! That's a big problem.
原帖由 牛精仔 於 10-11-2009 01:24 發表
so far, in 左咁多間, 大部分都係NET in 的, 有d都係菲律賓人, 但口音, 我完全接受, 因為各國都有唔同口音, 我公司都有95%外國人(大部分英國, 亦有蘇格蘭, 斯里蘭卡, 菲律賓人) 但think 我遇到嘅老師口音真係...:b ...
May be different people have different expectation. ... I bet you;re talking about the Indian teachers. My son's Indian teachers in THINK are very ok. They have accent of course but to me it's completely acceptable. May be because I had came across many Indian teachers in my sec sch education in the past, whose accent was far far far far more heavy.
原帖由 牛精仔 於 09-11-10 01:24 發表
so far, in 左咁多間, 大部分都係NET in 的, 有d都係菲律賓人, 但口音, 我完全接受, 因為各國都有唔同口音, 我公司都有95%外國人(大部分英國, 亦有蘇格蘭, 斯里蘭卡, 菲律賓人) 但think 我遇到嘅老師口音真係...:b ...
After all, parents in HK always think that Westerners (blue eyes, golden hair, white skin ) are more "qualified" as NETs rather than Asians / Chinese (even if they're native speakers). "Western" accents are more acceptable than "Asian" accents as well.
My friend, who is a Chinese brought up in Australia (= native speaker) said that she earned $200 less per hour as a private Eng oral tutor compared to her Australian friend, who has blue eyes, golden hair and white skin with similar work experience. We always joke that she better dye her hair, wear colour con and bleach her skin . hahaha
原帖由 twinsstar 於 09-11-10 16:44 發表
After all, parents in HK always think that Westerners (blue eyes, golden hair, white skin ) are more "qualified" as NETs rather than Asians / Chinese (even if they're native speakers). "Western" acc ...
原帖由 twinsstar 於 09-11-10 16:44 發表
After all, parents in HK always think that Westerners (blue eyes, golden hair, white skin ) are more "qualified" as NETs rather than Asians / Chinese (even if they're native speakers). "Western" acc ...
我係香港父母, 我覺得係咪net並唔係睇佢個樣係咪鬼佬金髮,最重要係口音, 我見好多菲律賓人都有菲律賓口音, 但好多都講得好好, 如我送小朋友去讀書, even 個老師有幾咁"鬼樣" 但口音嚇人, sorry, 我一定唔會比小朋友跟佢學。
May be .. but then I had a sec sch Eng teacher who's actually a French (French is her mother tongue). Her accent isnt very pure too, but she was more appealing to parents than other Asian teachers. We all agreed that she's a "NET" but in fact she;s not a native Eng speaker ...
I don't want to say it is kind of "discrimination" as this word is a bit negative and sounds too serious, but I do think people believe westerners are more "superior" in some sense. Of cos ... I know not all people will think like this la...
then it also depends on what kind of accents you can really accept. May be "heavy" American / Scottish accents is still more acceptable than "slight" Indian / Singaporean accents.
THe discussion here also reveals that different people have different definition of "heavy" accent. Your very first message seemed to tell me that the accent that the teacher has is completely unacceptable. But from my interaction with those Eng teachers at my son's school, I just think the "problem" is not as serious as you said... in fact ..not a "problem" at all.
afterall ... there is no right or wrong. Just we all have different demands and expectation on our kid's English teachers
twinsstar,
which traditional schools and DSS schools are you targeting? (I am clueless on Primary schools as I did not study in HK myself, so very green on this issue) you can pm me instead if you want.
Other potential Think mamis, which schools are you guys targeting if you put your child in Think?
原帖由 twinsstar 於 09-11-10 01:11 發表
Toreship,
I'm not targeting international school as well. And I plan to apply for traditional schools and DSS (not so newly established). For me, I prefer choosing KGs which do not lie on the 2 extre ...
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...我只係唔想自己小朋友學到呢種口音....
) are more "qualified" as NETs rather than Asians / Chinese (even if they're native speakers). "Western" accents are more acceptable than "Asian" accents as well.
