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WYmom, I am once again with you.
The general misunderstanding is that "IS is easier". But WHAT have parents been comparing?
Many local school children can recite the multiplication table at K3 (at least my cousin's son can), but do they really understand what it is all about? IS do things step by step without the rush. The children are learning what they should be learning at their age. Multiplication is probably not something most children would learn until P3-P4. But all children would know how to multiply eventually.
Beside academic knowledge (eg Math, language, etc), the skills that IS children have learnt are really not what most local school children could have acquired. IS kids (primary) do most of their work at school. They need to do those by themselves. According to a friend with a child in a local elite school, it is almost an "understanding" and an "expectation" that parents would be doing most of work "helping" the children to complete their projects. Even writing works would be or have to be first "polished" by the parents or tutors.
Ok, if we are to compete who can do harder multiplications or even spell harder English words, most likely local schools would win. Yes, for children at the same age, the kids at local schools are spelling much more difficult and much longer English words, especially at age below 8.
However, should be we setting our "goal" at somewhere further down the path of our children's life? Should we look at what ultimately we want our children to be? We are not working hard to pass the year end test; we are not working hard to get A's at HKCEE. We are looking at Ivy League schools; we are trying to see what our children would want to be career-wise one day.
Why even bother to push them into reciting multiplication table at 6? There is no need to hurry. What I see is that, by the time the children are around 2 years before they are to enter university, they are really very competent young people. They have all the research skills, learning skills, presentation skills, etc they need to survive their university education. They are not nerds but young people that love Bon Jovi and like to go hiking. They are willing to speak up in class to express their views (sometimes their views might be silly) and are not afraid to point out the mistakes their teachers made.
Children would have learnt or acquired a lot of different skills by the time they complete primary school. And after a few more years at secondary school, these skills are even more polished and they are fully equipped to go on to tertiary education.
Of course, there would always be examples of less successful cases. There are probably an equal number of dropouts from IS that would never make it to university. But again, which school does not have students that are not as competent or students that are simply lazy or students that do not have their own goal. But generally, I think IS education can provide more than academic education.
Last, I wish to say that these are my views. I hope I have not offended anyone. |
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發表於 08-4-18 01:03
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