月入多少才會讓孩子入讀IS呢？

FattyDaddy

umom 發表於 14-4-4 00:56
在一般IS這種鼓勵self expression, enquiring, and curiosity 的情況下那小孩就在班裏發夢，直到有人給他安排活動。 ...

With international schools, it is best to start from kindergarten and follow through all the way. If the child is first exposed to local style structured learning and gotten used to it, then what you described above could happen when he/she switches to inquiry based learning at international schools.

umom

原帖由 FattyDaddy 於 14-04-04 發表
With international schools, it is best to start from kindergarten and follow through all the way. If ...

Well I guess you are right... St Catherine although carries that "international" school name, I guess it's quite "local" or more of a bilingual school with relatively local approach...( just my perception)
Or he is in the wrong place right from start.

stepyau

can't agree with you more

Ruby1219

We are upper middle class. 11 years ago when we decided to put our son into international school, we were not very well off, only 30% of the income level we have now. But since we really prefer the IS education approach and we expect our salaries will rise healthily every year (we were in the workforce for 5-6 years at that time), we did not think too much and enrolled him into international kindergarten. We were being criticized by families and friends for giving up free education and go for such expensive choice. People think we are "on gui"! And, on top on school fee, we spent most of our expenses in our son's ECA, overseas football camps, summer camps, school trips, vacation trips etc. While, our living style is pretty local and humble, especially my husband's. Lucky that we have the consensus that education and exposure for our son is the most worthwhile expense for our family. We plan to send him abroad for university too, although it is quite a burden. But we think the exposure and experience would be precious!

puikit2012

原帖由 aidan08 於 14-02-14 發表
其實，有好多人仍然以為送仔女讀國際學校的家長係因為英文......根本呢個想法就係大錯特錯！我認識的所有 ...

講的太好了!

hkparent

原帖由 Ruby1219 於 14-04-07 發表
We are upper middle class. 11 years ago when we decided to put our son into international school, we ...

Truly agree with you. Exposure and learning experience.

Ruby1219

thanks ! Happy to meet 同道中人！

umom

原帖由 Ruby1219 於 14-04-07 發表
We are upper middle class. 11 years ago when we decided to put our son into international school, we ...

Yes I share your view as well... If you believe that the kind of exposure at IS is worthwhile of the cost, you make the choice and sacrifice something else. (Of course there's a bottom line, 30% of total income for education seems acceptable)
Many spend bucks for the H bags or other extravagance stuff to satisfy their little vanity but not willing to spend on the kid's education or more meaningful exposure (not another shopping trip to Thailand, Japan or Korea...)
We come across many very down to earth parents dress modestly without branded handbags at IS.
My family, we believe in decent neighborhood to live and good school for our kids to be the toppest of the priority, so we spend most of our money on these.

Ruby1219

well said. Lucky that we don't need to 挨面包，no H bags is totally no problem for me

紅紅

原帖由 Ruby1219 於 14-04-07 發表
We are upper middle class. 11 years ago when we decided to put our son into international school, we ...

I agree with you. I supposed we are like what you were 11 years ago，not extremely well off but have healthy income and we can afford the school fee of sending our daughter to an international school.

I always tell people, if we did not use the money to spend on her school fee, we would probably spend it on something else （short term luxury） such as expensive dinners, luxury holidays, bigger house, better car .... , but we think a better education is actually more satisfactory and worth much more then all of the above. And we are all very happy now even without the above mentioned luxury.

Luckily, all our friends and relatives are very supportive of our decision, they all say they can see my daughter is much more happier than when she was in a local kindy last year.

Ruby1219

yes, similar experience : few years ago, we sent our son to CTY summer camp for the first time, which costed us 2xk for a 3 weeks course. my friends and sisters all said it's way too expensive. But I explained that actually if not sending him to this summer course, we might use the 2xk for a 4-5days short trip to Thailand or Taiwan, in which not much additional experience we will gain.

Turned out, my son enjoyed and learned a lot after the 3 weeks and we are enrolling him into this summer camp for the fourth year (different courses every year) despite its increased fee.

lijacq

Hi, my friend from USA also recommends this class. What grade is your son? Did you also spend 3 weeks there? Cos my daughter wishes to go and I am wondering if I need to bring her there, stay for 3 weeks and come back with her to HK?

shadeslayer

原帖由 Ruby1219 於 14-04-09 發表
yes, similar experience : few years ago, we sent our son to CTY summer camp for the first time, whic ...

I want to agree with you but I can't make myself to. While study camps are good for academic or learning to be independent. Family holidays are good too for bonding, sharing precious moments with the family and other reasons. It does not mean we only need study camps but not family holidays.

Ruby1219

yes u are right, we still have 1-2 family holiday trips per year.

Ruby1219

my son joins the one in Hk only, this year it is in HKU. last 3 years in HKUST

honeybunny7

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Why not send him to the one at Johns Hopkins campus?  Its campus is okay but the exposure to US culture would be much greater.

boyboy_mama

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what is cty?

MarcusD

Ruby1219 發表於 14-4-7 20:24
We are upper middle class. 11 years ago when we decided to put our son into international school, we ...

**** Couldn't agree more , Thanks for sharing ******************

Ruby1219

Centre for talented youth, online and summer programs by John's Hopkins University

Ruby1219

he likes the program but not the US. haha