Any bad comments about IS students?

esther.cy

Agreed that good and bad students existing in both LS and IS. It really depends on how the family teach their kids and your kids' own characters. I have once heard from a professional counsellor said you can easily spot out bad / naughty IS kids as they don't mind showing you even from their appearance, but you can hardly spot out a bad / naughty LS kids, esp those from band 1 top schools as they need to hide their bad behaviour from parents due to high academic expectation from their parents. As I myself have a kid in LS and a kid in IS, both in primary now, frankly speaking, I don't think the one in IS has a looser discipline than the one in LS.

samsam123321

Jane1983 發表於 14-12-13 10:39
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同意，又難怪的，無小朋友時吾會留意，到有小朋友先開始了解，好多人仲以為「肯 ...

好多LS 小朋友英文跟本入唔到IS

fanfanbb

canteen31 發表於 14-12-12 01:28
We all have different benchmarks for what is considered as 'bad behavior' and stereotyping Internati ...

I share with your view and I am from local school brand one school, also many "bad" students around. Also agreed the school is only part of the life and parental influence is the most crucial.

samsam123321

觀乎上一層，中文水準確實令人難以相信是讀國際學校。請問是否非常後期去讀，還是去讀講中文的國際學校？

ycykkk

samsam123321 發表於 14-12-22 10:42
觀乎上一層，中文水準確實令人難以相信是讀國際學校。請問是否非常後期去讀，還是去讀講中文的國際學校？ ...

你好. 我除了幼兒園及大學於本地學校就讀, 其餘的時間都於英文的國際學校就讀.

samsam123321

那你寫blog時可否用英文寫，照顧一下我們讀is的小朋友？

ycykkk

samsam123321 發表於 14-12-22 11:01
那你寫blog時可否用英文寫，照顧一下我們讀is的小朋友？

我會考慮. 現在主要是因應心情而選擇使用中/英語撰寫. 我認為於香港居住的IS學生才要多閱讀中文啊!

samsam123321

看見你能雙語運用，更加加強我對is  信心。那樣連Ls 唯一的好處中文強都不再是不可代替了。

964000

原帖由 ycykkk 於 14-12-22 發表
I went to an is and  it is true that there are bad students. However, I think the is bad students ar ...

樓主，請問你讀那一間IS？配服

ycykkk

964000 發表於 14-12-23 15:26
樓主，請問你讀那一間IS？配服

沙田區的一所國際學校，不方便開名。

wilsonyeung813

ycykkk 發表於 14-12-22 09:10
I went to an is and  it is true that there are bad students. However, I think the is bad students ar ...

Hey i took IB too. I transferred from a LS to an IS so my english isn't rly good. i saw ur post about english fluency and presentation. im now studying in HKU fac of social science (btw what CUHK program u in?), and i realize the local students' english in presentation is even better than mine..... given that its harder to get in HKU/CUHK/UST through DSE than through IB, the local school students' english is not much worse than an IS's student..  and ur chinese is rly rly good. pretty close to LS's level. much much better than my IS frds.. did u get any tutoring on ur chinese? and ya i don rly like ppl who think speaking english is superior to speaking chinese lol..
and ya there are bad students everywhere. in my IS class there were like over 3 students who took drugs b4 (not saying taking drugs is necessarily bad, as its so damn common in countries like Canada even though its illegal). even in the best LSs like QC/DBS, there are bad apples..

canteen31

Sometimes its really just 'sour grape' comments about bad students in IS, e.g. "oh aren't I glad my son/daughter don't go to XXX school, I hear they smoke/wear miniskirt/take drugs there!"…..but most likely the truth is, their child cannot get into XXX school

ratafan

Yes, many IS students wear miniskirts to school, LS dont as they are not allowed to. I think the trend says shorter skirts look better than oversized ones. In terms of swearing, true that middle grades swear a lot in English while higher grades seem to cut down.  They know where not to swear. I hear many IS students get to top uni or boarding schools though

ratafan

Btw, the murderer in wan chai who killed 2 prostitutes was graduated from Cambridge

elmostoney

I was in a band 1 girls' catholic school in HK, then went abroard during early secondary.  That was many years ago.  Even a band 1 girls' catholic school has its own problems, so don't be naive.  

I was in a public high school.  Each year had about 300+ to 400 students.  The school was huge.  So I did see a broad spectrum of people.  Yes, girls wore make up.  There was no uniform, so you could pretty much wear what you wanted within reason - definitely nothing too revealing or out of bounds.  I didn't see a problem with that.  There were always a group of top students, a bunch in the middle and some at the bottom.  I didn't know if anybody took drugs.  I assumed there probably was.  A school is a miniature reflection of society after all.  It's a matter of which group of students your child chooses to associate with.  

Coming back to HK LS vs IS.  Many people have pointed out that there are just as many drugs and social problems in the news concerning LS.  It's just that nowadays in this material society, I don't see any difference.  Many parents who send their children to IS are from hardworking middle class families.  If you are considering sending your child to an IS, I assume that you will look into the background of the LS as well - not unless you plan to go to a school like 鮮魚行 (no disrespect intended) - the family background of many students could be quite similar to that of many IS.  So we are back to square one - material superfluousness. I know teenagers at IS who have friends taking drugs, but her own family is very religious and the child definitely won't be any strayed lamb.  It's more a matter of how you teach your child at home no matter what school you go to.  

You may have heard many "bad comments" about IS, but I can also tell you that I heard many bad comments about LS - how the emphasis on academics and very little else kills creativity, strained family relationship, suicide reports, drug problems...need I go on?

nintendo

I have been a frequent BK/EK-er since 10+ years ago.
It is interesting to see that in the year 2014, the same question still pops up.