My point is when you have many different ethnic group in a classroom, some kids may shift their attention to things which are related to national cultures. And they may become more interested in learning the cultures of their classmates that may distract or take away them from their normal learning. Next day the kids keep asking their dad why their classmates keep wearing that turban. There is nothing wrong with that, but you will find yourself spending more time on talking about differnet cultures in different countries than teaching your kids to do the homework. Of course this is only a hyperthetical situation but nevertheless exists.
原帖由 猴子爸 於 09-10-2 13:08 發表
Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Do you mean what you said? or you are being sarcastic here?
For me, TSL is in the top 3 of my list for my son.
原帖由 Gooddaddy 於 09-10-2 14:44 發表
My point is when you have many different ethnic group in a classroom, some kids may shift their attention to things which are related to national cultures. And they may become more interested in lear ...
The reality is that your kid won't keep on asking you about these "cultural questions" after seeing his/her classmates in schools every single day! They simply think this is natural and respect that different people of different origins have different culture ... isn't this what we want them to learn from school???
That's why I prefer KTS. And after witnessing the world power demonstrated by China's massive military parade yesterday, I'm proud to be instiling Chinese cutural values to my kids.
原帖由 猴子爸 於 09-10-2 14:49 發表
Are you kidding?
You are as good as Leon Lai...
lovingparent, you must be a serious person. When you were typing your reply, gooddaddy was probably dancing reggae.
原帖由 lovingparent 於 09-10-2 14:51 發表
The reality is that your kid won't keep on asking you about these "cultural questions" after seeing his/her classmates in schools every single day! They simply think this is natural and respect that d ...
Then you should try 培侨。 They can provide your daughter with whatever chinese culural values you like, esp. the communist ones.
原帖由 Gooddaddy 於 09-10-2 14:56 發表
That's why I prefer KTS. And after witnessing the world power demonstrated by China's massive military parade yesterday, I'm proud to be instiling Chinese cutural values to my kids.
原帖由 Gooddaddy 於 09-10-2 14:44 發表
My point is when you have many different ethnic group in a classroom, some kids may shift their attention to things which are related to national cultures. And they may become more interested in lear ...
I really appreciate your in new point regarding different ethnic groups in a classroom and want to ellaborate more here.
Different groups might expose the kids to be familiar with multi-national culturebut meanwhile they would learn, say oral English, in an distracted way. I've been working with different Asian or European region people and no doubt that they have different mother tongues. Of course I'm not specialist in research Language. Personally thinking that it will make the kid difficult to concentrate on learning, whether following the teachers' or classmate tongue.
原帖由 猴子爸 於 09-10-2 14:59 發表
Then you should try 培侨。 They can provide your daughter with whatever chinese culural values you like, esp. the communist ones.
That's not good point in discussing like that, even though I have little idea on TSL.
KTS as I knew there is comparatively few different ethnics group from teacher or classmates side. Both of english and chinese performance is good enough to let the students choose their top-tier schools in future.
If parents have a big concern about having their kids studying in a school with a multicultural environment, then I would urge them not to apply for TSL just because everybody does. It's no point when you don't believe in the school and it's unique characteristic. I'm glad that someone comes out to raise a concern when in fact many parents that have not been exposed to such an environment would probably feel the same as well, but they somehow still apply for TSL just because it's famous... that is sad!!
原帖由 Gooddaddy 於 09-10-2 14:44 發表
My point is when you have many different ethnic group in a classroom, some kids may shift their attention to things which are related to national cultures. And they may become more interested in lear ...
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