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本帖最後由 tingtingting 於 22-10-13 09:43 編輯
It's actually quite interesting that ISF manages to become a school that is comparable to (not necessarily on par with though) some "old money" elite schools like CIS and GCIS within so short a time. Our elder kid used to attend another elite IS on the Island side. We were happy with the school but there was a problem - our kid refused to speak Chinese and had shown a tendency to think everything Western by default is superior. We wanted our kids to be truly open-minded and be able to speak and write both English and Chinese at native level (I strongly think it is such a waste to grow up in HK without mastering the two languages), and we looked around. We had a meeting with Shirley Lee, the then Head of ISF and were convinced. Although ISF was very new and had no track record, we decided to give it a try. Why not? After all there are so many good schools in this world and we can always make another switch if things went wrong with ISF (actually our kid was still on CIS's wait list). For reasons I can't understand, our decision to leave the other elite IS triggered a wave of "concerns" or even criticisms from other parents. They came to us and asked why, are you mad, and challenged us with ideas like it is impossible to achieve real native proficiency in two languages, ISF is too "Chur", it has no track record, the admin is bad, blablabla. Looking back, with respect, it seems to me that their concerns were associated with panic and insecurity. They fear that their kids might be left behind if other kids are able to become excellent at both English and Chinese, they fear that they have made the wrong choices ...
The switch to ISF is a good move, I can proudly announce. |
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