Can someone give the advise If I send the girl to IS....

靚媽媽

My girl 5 years old and she will go to a IS this coming Sep.

I'm glad she can pass the interview.  Both me & my husband would like she can speak the English well and study under the happy enviorment, we target send her to IS instead of local school.

Now, she accepted by the IS, I still consider if send her to IS or not...

The advandage to IS are:
1.) Both me & husband are busy, even have the maid who only can do the housework, don't expect she can teach the homework..  You know, local school have more homework, test, dict, exam....  I prefer use the time to play & talk with the girl rater than pushing & pushing on the homework everynight..

2.) She can speak well in English.

3.) Other than the study, she can spare the tiem to play & learn another things she like..


The things I still consider is:
1.) It is costly to send a girl to IS, I plannign the first 5 year that I have to spend around HK$7,000 per month just the school fee.  We can burden it but cannot travel every year and somethings that we have to give up.

2.) have to find a teacher to our home once/twice per week in order to teach her more English.

3.) My english is not really good.  All the teacher are forigner in the school.  When you join the activities, i'm afraid I cannot follow up.


So, I don't know it is a good choice to send a girl to IS.  You know, after made the decision, you cannot back to the local school, right???  


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WYmom

Which IS?  Private teacher also teaches English only at home?

IS is good in teaching approach, however, if your kid can speak English only, she will have to study in IS all the way upto secondary.  The cost is $7000 per month for 12 years.  This is normally the case for IS students.

If bilingual with good Chinese standard, then can still switch to famous English secondary schools later, which may save you some school fees in later years.

It depends what you plan for your kid in future.

I don't think that you can just leave the kid with the school (IS or not) without spending time to take care of her school work.  All parents are busy, still can take care of the kids' education after work, with the help of private tutor.  It will be better to train the kid to do homework by herself. Don't think that parents' availability is a key decision factor in choosing school.

alexlui

Hi WYmom,

I totally agree with you, if anyone wants to hand over their children to their teachers, they are trying their luck.  In IS, they don't put too much pressure to the children lagging behind, their parents may not notice that.