本帖最後由 junyina 於 21-10-30 03:54 編輯
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"The initial expectation of the parents translates to satisfaction level." - second that.
That's why I said there's no perfect school that fits all. I was only explaining my own choice here because a few parents asked why I transferred my kid to another school.
It's also not fair for you to label me as a local parent who complains about IS academic level in general. I don't even know what the local system is offering at her age, but I am only comparing AIS's curriculum with my own kid's development.
I hope to find a school with classmates who are on par with my kids' level. My girl is in G2 now and is given G3 worksheets to do, while quite a number of classmates are still working on materials that she completed two years ago. The 3 year spread in the same class made me wonder how much she benefits from the daily school teaching - plus I know she does not find the G3 worksheet challenging at all. While I appreciate the teacher's act of catering her individual level, I would worry about "what's next?". Does she always have to do worksheets of higher grades and be different from her classmates? When can they talk in the same language? Again, it's not the curriculum's fault, but it just does not fit my kid. It really depends on individual's level.
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Regarding the "carefree" parents that I mentioned, I was linking their attitudes towards the school's management. Examples are:
1) Kids having snacks on the playground floor while there are other kids running around very close by. Too close that my girl's water bottle was knocked down a few times. It was aluminum water bottle so I could tell.
2) Last year was a mixed of online and face-to-face school. For Elementary School, the first day after holiday was always being called as "OFF CAMPUS Learning" or "Asynchronous Day". It's said in the email:
Faculty On-Campus Work Day - Prepare for School Resumption. Students Will Be Assigned Work to Complete at Home. There will be no Zoom sessions for students today. The so-called "work" was usually one piece of worksheet or a few YouTube links. While I understand that teachers needed to prepare for class, with or without COVID, shouldn't it be prepared AHEAD but not ON THE DAY when the school had already started? This happened a few times last year after long holidays.
3) At AIS, every Friday is called "Fun Friday". When my kid was in Grade 1 Jr, she said every Friday afternoon they were given cartoon videos to watch. I had no idea about the content and duration, but even if it was educational, I rather my kid was taught in a more well-planned classroom activity EVERY Friday.
Other parents seemed to have no problem with these examples. No one talked about it in the parents group. So I guess as long as kids are happy, the parents are fine too. There's no right or wrong here, just that the above are not acceptable for me.
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Regarding ECAs, with or without COVID, AIS did not communicate with lower elementary parents on when and what kind of ECAs would be made available for students. Ironically I can see from other IS website for the kinds of after school activities for their students, but I do not know AIS' situation even though I am a parent there. At the moment some IS are slowly resuming the after school activities for their students, AIS is too, just limited to Middle and High School. While I can understand that this is probably due to COVID limitation, but choices are out there.
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Furthermore, my girl told me this year the playground language was a mixed of Cantonese and English. This linked to the point (2) in my previous post.
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I prefer my kid to study in a more well-planned school with after school activities offered (so that I don't have to plan for logistics and she can mingle with schoolmates as well). These were MY expectation but AIS failed to meet. Some may not see it as a problem at all, so it's the right school for them and they stay. I quit.
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