2013 IB Results Reporting Thread

HKTHK

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Just by the way they disclose the IB results, it seems to have hit the senior management pretty hard and I can't imagine they don't think there is a problem!  If they still don't think there is a problem with the lowest score in HK, then I am sure a couple more years of this will be a loud wakeup call.  Of course, in this case, there will be lots of departure before IB DP and that would be the smart thing for parents to do.
Salary is indeed a big concern.  There are so many IB DP programs in HK competing for qualified teachers now!  Clearly the best teachers will go for more prestigious schools, they will have to find a good value proposition quickly.

HKTHK

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I see, the picture book teaching in Primary School is experimental indeed.  But that seems to be more a primary school issue?  Seems like the problem is they haven't quite figured out is how to transition from primary into IGCSE?  I have only tried to compare their IGCSE score on a preliminary basis and my recollection was that it was OK but not as good as their marketing made it out to be.

HKTHK

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Indeed, switching is quite common especially to the few prestigious school.  On the flip side, also makes one wonder how much of the prestigious schools' good results are their work as opposed to just taking in good students who will do well anywhere.

annie40

回覆 ANChan59 的帖子

No way to take it like experiment.  Students are not a figure to show off or be insulted. We must cherish every student by guiding him to shoot up his potential.  The school should not take students to somewhere with confusion and those place they don't have confidence to make them be better persons than they knew it.  Anyway, if the school is not well prepared to take care of these 14 students.  Stop to do it.

bobbycheung

HKTHK,

I see.  I guess I was the only one who didn't know that they all took and qualified under the Group 3 or 4 in English.  Thanks anyway.

annie40

回覆 HKTHK 的帖子

Please don't misunderstand the school life is leisure.  My friends told that  they do double in curriculum, one side is local type and other side is international style.  He always worried and doubted to believe that was the best for his girl.  Once he told me whhen her girl took a field trip to Beijing in primary 5, teachers chaired a conference to share what they had learned and experienced at 10:30pm on that day.  It was too serious study life  like traditional local school, and no one seemed to mind and care of tired students' sleep issue.

annie40

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There's some experience shared from a friend who works as teaching management in a decent international school. Since the school needs to expand  Chinese department, so they recruited more new teachers from CKY and other schools.  However, she noticed that CKY teachers are furious hardworking, but with very low teaching skill to pass those knowledge to international schools kids.    So the input is big, but the result of learning is not obvious.  

Maybe not the whole picture like this. Please forgive me if it hurts the feeling of CKY parents.

HKTHK

回覆 annie40 的帖子

Conference call at 10:30pm?    I know what I would have my kids do.  They will participate in their sleep

ANChan59

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One night should be ok.

annie40

回覆 112200 的帖子

This also explain why they got the one highest IGSCE score student last year, but actually their IGCSE average score among the rest kids is far gap from that top student. .... The one and only one. All my view .
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In school website and press there mentions 3 CKY students with IGCSE score  11A* and A, ie the combination could be 1A* and 10A, or 2A* and 9A, and so......  It is marketing delusion...  Please note that  in international schools circle  like ESF they have many many this kind of students, every secondary has at least one or few kids with achievement of IGCSE all 8* and more.    In GSIS they always have several kids with all subjects A* too.    They take it as very common phenomena.

annie40

回覆 ANChan59 的帖子

The problem is not one night,  a week or a months. Bed time would be nearly 12am.  It is  teachers who should be trained to well understand the core of education.  But they don't see their problem is problem.  I won't trust people with wrong judgement and common sense to take care of my girl.   IT IS TOO DANGEROUS and unacceptable.

HKTHK

回覆 ANChan59 的帖子

Haven't dealt with this problem yet but it does seem to be a matter of principle.  10:30pm feels like an invasion of personal/home privacy?

annie40

回覆 shadeslayer 的帖子

CKY 的家长是出名的跟学校配合的, project 多深奥家长也会帮忙教的, 某年小学教Egypt, 朋友即留低老婆, 带女去Egypt十二天看文物古迹, 学印度亦如是, 拥有非常配合和信任的家长是学校的福份, 成绩单的効果是非常的broken heart!!!!

shadeslayer

原帖由 annie40 於 13-12-12 發表
回覆 shadeslayer 的帖子

CKY 的家长是出名的跟学校配合的, project 多深奥家长也会帮忙教的, 某年小学教E ...

Oh I see. Yet it is not unique to CKY. I am sure ISF parents are similarly devoted to their children's learning. People are less  tolerant and have less confidence when it come to CKY.

ANChan59

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You are right, weeks and months is an issue.

HKTHK

回覆 shadeslayer 的帖子

I think many new schools face the same issue.  I won't go by sentiment on EK as an indication of parents' anxiety and concern.  Afterall, this is just a random group of people.

nintendo

poonseelai 發表於 13-12-11 18:07
A current year 12 CKY parent told me all students must take the bilingual DP (i.e. Chinese A and En ...

因為 ibo 近幾年執得好緊，要學校嚴重遵守 group 1 和 group 2 選科。
如果是母語，一定要讀 level a。
香港以往有學校走精面，比好多本地學生讀 chinese b ，令到 group 2 chinese b 成績發水，因此 ibo 的確係唔會再隻眼開隻眼閉比本地學生讀 chinese b。因此，其實國際學校，好多插班入讀的學生，都會選擇讀 spanish 或 french。

nintendo

daisychan 發表於 13-12-11 21:03
Taking Chinese A and English B, like Logos, can also be a bilingual diploma.  Also as the first year ...

我個人就唔想仔女讀 english b。如果只讀 english b，選擇少好多，而呢個情形，唔係話考 ielts 或 sat 可以幫到手。
大陸學生，台灣學生，因為課程限制，冇較高水平的英文科選擇，因此可以靠考 sat 或 ielts 等幫補。
但 ibdp 明明有 english a，學生都唔讀，只讀 english b，大學就知係乜事，因此唔可以為靠 sat 或 ielts 可以補償。
我自己比較過，我覺得 english b 淺過 dse english，難聽 d 講，我覺得香港學生讀 english b，真係 "好渣"。