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Re: 黃仁龍為愛女報考聖士提反小一
Dear Savoy & Tzeyanmui
In response to both of your message, I have some personnal opinions.
A - Comparision between St Stephen & HKUGA:
1. I guest that one of the reasons that the two cases you mentioned did not send their younger kids to St. Stephen might be due to the high school fee. It would be not easy for a normal middle class family to afford sending both kids to St. Stephen. Of course there may be some other real reasons and you are in a better position to find it out.
2. To compare St. Stephen with HKUGA, I was just based on the information provided by the schools as well as my observations on the facilities and students and some feedbacks from parents.
- Both schools emphasize using non-traditional ways of teaching but I think the environment of St. Stephen as well as its long history can better foster such a good learning environment.
- The mode of teaching in St. Stephen will better develop the kid's language ability especially in English and Potungha. Note that all subjects except religious study will be conducted in either English or Potungha in St. Stephen.
- The average students of St. Stephen will come from the middle class which may have better resources for their kids (i.e. just a general deduction)
- The available resources for each student from the school will be much greater for St. Stephen than HKUGA because of the higher school fee even HKUGA get a certain direct subsidy from the government (i.e. just also a general deduction). Please note that I had a bad experience for my kid in kindergarten that although the kindergarten has a very good mode of education and a very good principal, however, due to limited of resource, the actual results were not as expected because the teachers were too busy to handle too many students and prepare a lot of teaching materials.
- My impression on the students of St. Stephen is better than HKUGA after my observations. They are smart, cheerful, polite and energetic.
- I heard quite a lot rumors from parents of the my kid's kindergarten that the actual results of HKUGA were not as good as they expected. The student turnover rate is quite high. I am not sure on this as I did not conduct any real investigation on these points.
3. It is not easy to explain why the application number of HKUGA is so high. Please think that if I cannot afford a high school fee for my kid but just enough to support the monthy fee of around HK$1500, why not I try to apply HKUGA as a spare at least HKUGA will be better than most of the governement or subsidized primary schools even though no school fee is required for those schools under the central student allocation system. If you get the actual number of turning down the offer per year, you will realize whether HKUGA is really well-accepted by most parents.
Anyway, the above are just my personal views and I am not intend to diminish or deny the great effort made by all the good teachers and staff of HKUGA. It just happens that HKUGA is still too young to have relevant track records and I am afraid whether the limited resource of HKUGA can achieve its good education philiosophy and believes.
B - The best primary school in HK side:
Different parents have different criteria in selecting the school for their kids. No one has the authority to say which school is the best. Therefore, I can only give my opinion on my best choice based on my own criteria and judgement.
Firstly, I would like to give my selection criteria on primary school for my kid:
- It must be a co-education school as my kid is a boy and I believe that a boy is most suitable to study at a co-ed school while a girl is most suitable to study at a girl's school.
- It must be either a Christian school or at least without religion background because we are a Christian family.
- It must use an interactive way of teaching becasue I believe that it will arouse the learning interest of my kid and help my kid to be more creative and innovative, be able to think out of the box and solve the problem by himself.
- It must put great emphasize on building up a good language ability as I believe that language is the fundamental of all learning.
- It must put morale education at the first place as I believe that if a kid develops a poor morale standard, the greater capability he/she posseses, the greater damages to the community and others he/she will be in the future.
- It must have a vision and mission to strive for excellence as I believe that all kids have a lot of potential but must be explored in an effective and efficiency way.
Based on my above personal criteria of selecting a primary school, I find it difficult to identify any good government or subsidy primary school meeting my requirements in the HK side.
If we consider only non international schools, I will choose St Paul Co. Ed as my first choice and St. Stephen as my second choice. However, unfortunately, my son's application for St. Paul Co. Ed (Macdonnel) probably fails as I still do not receive the 2nd interview letter while someone said that he already received the 2nd interview letter on this Monday.
Anyway, although I have a little bit disappointment, I believe that God may consider St Paul Co. Ed not suitable for my son even though I like it very much.
Thank you for your patient in reading through my contribution.
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