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引用:+本帖最後由+Shootastar+於+12-10-17+18:58
本帖最後由 Maoku 於 12-10-18 01:04 編輯
原帖由 Shootastar 於 12-10-17 發表
本帖最後由 Shootastar 於 12-10-17 18:58 編輯
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Thanks for all your views that triggers me to think further on this issue. I don't mean to argue with anybody here but I just wish to offer a slightly different perspective for enriching the discussion.
Let me put it this way. In a MTR compartment full of passengers with only one priority seat available for the under-privileged, a well dressed man but with one limb only now come on board. Should we, as a normal person with full limbs, leave the seat for this man or should we take the seat just because he looks rich?
I truly think that education is a universal social goods that every people should entitle. I am not saying that I support those 雙非嬰 whose parents that I see as exploiting our legal loopholes to take advantage of the benefits that they not entitled. I mean those people who are legally authorized to live and work here, be it expatriate or other ethic minorities, which their kids are just as ours should have the equal rights to education.
The ESF and the other schools that Shootstar mentioned are meant to be protecting the minority for equal opportunity to education. Therefore, priority no doubt should go to those who cannot speak Cantonese by ethnicity. So people who can speak Cantonese where they have adequate opportunity in mainstream school should give way to those who are in need, just as normally we offer seats to the physically impaired. We will not think why I can't have equal access to that priority seat in front of the disadvantaged.
The tricky thing is that more and more local parents are tired of the local education system that excessively emphasizes on exam results and endless homework and tutorial class, not to mention the many educational reforms in the past years. Our didactic based system has strained family relationship that makes many parents vote by their feet. Perhaps together with the decreasing number of expatriates shortly after 1997, the vacancies in most IS, including ESF, were filled up by many many local kids.
But If we have watched recent RTHK documentary on 國際學校誰讀?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7LRwZqmUeM&sns=em, we should know that ESF should start applying more stringent screening on admission so that kids by ethnicity not able to learn in Cantonese can have their study places. Of course, this would make the competition to IS education even more keen. EDB shall, undoubtedly, be responsible for examining the whole education direction of local curriculum and reviewing the positioning of IS.
I am grateful that my kid is lucky enough to get selected in ESF PIS. There is no Cat 1/2 priority in the admission selection. Kids compete on equal grounds on their language ability as well as their social skills. But for ESF schools where government subsidy are involved, the principle of granting priority to the needy should prevail.
ESF should rectify the system from being derailed from its original intention as there are many real Cat 1 kids not even granted the opportunity of interview while someone who are supposed to be Cat 2 have taken up their places which I see as unjust.
Hope my views do not offend, if yes, my apology.
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