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本帖最後由 random_dad 於 16-3-10 09:57 編輯
For CAIS, in terms of academic performance, it's definitely not as competitive as other schools. I think there are several factors though that affect it beyond the expectations and requirements of the schools and teachers. For one, in many cases for each school it's a self fulling prophecy that parents of an academically strong child will choose a school that has a reputation of high academic standards, and vice versa, and so strong schools stay strong, and weak schools stay weak. This happens in both LS and IS. As a whole, parents of students who enroll at CAIS don't choose the school for academic performance only, and prioritize teaching methods and values, and lower stress, and as such would choose CAIS over another school based on their reputation. This leads to a body of students where their base academic performance may not all be high achievers.
Should CAIS do more to bring up their "standards"? As a parent that have children in both campuses, my feeling is probably. But I've seen that happening already, as the expectations of the teachers have increased at the same grade level over the last few years. I would have no problems expecting more from them so long as their teaching methods don't evolve to be a more force-fed style.
At the end of the day though, I only focus on the performance of my own children, and not of others in the school. How the school as a whole in academic performance matters very little to me; how the school teaches, their methodology, their values, and their compassion towards others matters far more to me, because it's easy for me to supplement the academics outside of school if my goal was to advance them in academics.
As for their English standards, based on my observations, at the lower grades (Lai Yiu) there are many kids where their spoken English does have some sort of an "accent". The severity and incidences that happen at the Kowloon City campus are far fewer, in my opinion. The funny thing I've noticed is that kids will imitate their peers, and adjust accordingly in order to fit in. When amongst their peers, even my kids, who are foreign-born Chinese, have lived overseas before, and are native English speakers of an English speaking household, will speak with an accent to each other, but will immediately speak fluent accent-less English to myself or other native English speakers. It's as if they are assessing their audience and then choose to mimic them. While my fluent English-speaking kids will speak with an accent with their friends, the flip side is that their friends will also to talk to me without the accent (or severely reduced) that they so often use when among themselves, perhaps knowing that I am an English speaker. As an anecdotal observation, I was at the KC playground after school for over an hour earlier on this week after school during tryouts, and did not notice much of the "accent" that is being referred to.
In terms of the depth of English, I haven't noticed whether they were particularly weak or strong. I think that by observing their speech, it's not indicative of the depth, unless you were in an in-depth discussion with them. What I can say is that I've not noticed any issues with their ability to express themselves that is appropriate for their age group, including having observed them on day-long outings as a parent volunteer.
This is but one parent's observations and views. It's offered for free, so take it for what it's worth. :)
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發表於 16-3-9 17:27
