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not interested in getting in the middle of this "attack" between wisekid2007 and thankful.

To continue this topic:

1) I don't believe not allowing speaking Cantonese or not contribute to IB failure. Many other schools are in the same condition, but have successfully passed IB candidacy.

2) The orientation and interview my daughter went was in January 2009.
At that time, I was NOT impressed at all, and thought the whole orientation attitude was very poor from the school. The attitude was, "you are here to beg us take your child, so if you want to ask questions, you may write it on a piece of paper." For 1 hour, we listened to the vice-principal read off our pieces of paper. And NEVER really giving us an answer to our satisfaction, always says "TRUST us."

3) IB- without IB, I would have FURTHER doubts what kind of wishy washy, middle of the road curriculum they would come up with ?

4) They DID hire a IB candidacy expert ... his name, I forgot, John something... something like he was very experienced in helping schools get the IB certification.

I never doubted ISF would fail, because I figured, no matter where they fell short, they would always have the money to "fill" it in.

I am very shocked and surprised. I have many students there, I am going to ask and see what's going on now.

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thankful,

Would you mind getting me in the game? It's really interesting reading our old friend wisekid2007 attacking. His favourite phrase is "rational discussion" while licking blood. Ha ha

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我都有留意哩間學校 , 開頭都覺得作為一間新校咁具認受性係一個奇蹟(可能多少亦反映家長對本地教育制度o既懷疑),依家做唔到佢o地承諾o既咪好大劑

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Dear all,

I've been to their open day and talked with the parents. They said that the ISF failed the IBO MYP authorization because of their strict language policy. In ISF, English and Putonghua are not only the medium of instruction. Students communicate with each other after the lessons in this two languages.
IBO respect the student's mother tongue. I've been to RC admission information talk. The principal asked the parents to speak their own mother tongue at home. And they wouldn't stop students speaking mother tongue at school.

For those new schools with IB authorization, e.g Victoria, Creative school and RC, their secondary school students esp, new students from other schools are mainly from local families. If there are no strict language policy, the teenages must speak cantonese after the lessons. This is the reality.

I think ISF and IBO is now struggling on this issue.

For the IBO Diploma, I think the students will be more mature and the new secondary students will be immersed in bi-lingual environment for few years. There will be no need to set the strict language policy.

On the other hand, can the existing parents and those unsatisfied ex-parents give more information about this school?

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but the school mentioned now under processing and hope IB programme canbe started for the coming Sept

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原帖由 meganlee 於 09-6-2 11:39 發表
Dear all,

I've been to their open day and talked with the parents. They said that the ISF failed the IBO MYP authorization because of their strict language policy. In ISF, English and Putonghua are ...

We have already discussed whether the "reason" provided by ISF make sense......

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Have tried to call the school they told me they never failed IB and all under processing, trust will confirm for the coming Sept 09. They just wondering where can we get info that they failed IB application? Can any parents give me more info?

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原帖由 狄麗絲 於 09-6-2 17:20 發表
Have tried to call the school they told me they never failed IB and all under processing, trust will confirm for the coming Sept 09. They just wondering where can we get info that they failed IB appl ...

呢個消息我都係在BK收到, 而非經校方發報....
好奇怪點解家長有問題唔直接向校方提問呢? 若然真係問一次問唔到, 就問多幾次, 問多幾個教職員囉...

當然, 上網share, comment, 搵資料係好好. 但都要注意網上的真真假假, 人云亦云, 個人偏見等等...
譬如話ISF因為貴, 所以家長就覺得好, 爭住報---淨係呢點就已經好有問題啦, 你估D家長係白痴咩!?

即使係著名的傳統local school如St. X co-ed, DXS; 或者IS如HKXS, CXS等等, 在親朋戚友之間都聽到一D唔好的comment. 咁係咪就代表呢D學校唔好呢??
要知道, 間間學校都有優點有缺點, 最緊要係邊間適合自己的小孩&符合家長的期望.

熟悉BK的媽咪都應該知道, 呢度某某會員的"嗜好"&"專長"就係撩交嗌! 尤其是關於ISF的話題, 最好避免在BK回應, 否則...... 你都有眼見啦!~

想知多D學校的資料, 參觀多幾次學校, 自己觀察D學生, 同該校的家長/學生傾計, 直接各校長/老師查問!

* 對於我地黎講, 即使有無IB都無所謂. 因為我囡囡只係小一, 加上佢應該唔會在香港讀中學.

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http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/viewthread.php?tid=1684935

I agree that there are false information everywhere on the internet. And I would never just trust anyone.

Someone asked and "warrrren" confirmed it. He has always given very valuable comments in BK. I can say "warrrren" is one of the rare few that I believe I can trust.

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原帖由 狄麗絲 於 09-6-2 17:20 發表
Have tried to call the school they told me they never failed IB and all under processing, trust will confirm for the coming Sept 09. They just wondering where can we get info that they failed IB appl ...

Ha! There are a lot of liars. BK is full of ESF parents. All messages have to be saying good things about ESF. If anyone say bad things about ESF, the ALL come out to fight. But at the same time, they ALL help stepping on other schools. The worst thing is they have A LOT OF DIFFERENT login names. And they use different names to ask and answer. And make it look like everyone supports ESF and everyone does not like other school. But when you think, don't you think it is strange? Look at other topics and there are actually NOTHING else good but ESF. There is no negative comments about ESF.

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It's not that parents are "crazy" to just go to a school that is "expensive". That is NOT the only reason why ISF is popular among these parents.

However, it is ONE of the reasons... because as one parent told me, it's one way of "filtering" out the "better background" students attending certain school.

And, with the increasing construction, and facilities, more money is needed, and therefore, higher tuition is expected. For the value one gets from the school, there are many schools that offers the same or more, but at about 30% less expensive than ISF per month.

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Well, Meganlee said the open day told her so.

Cara, this is ISF, what's this thread got to do with ESF ?

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原帖由 Pianokc 於 09-5-27 02:23 發表
Of course competition is high, the tendency of many parents in HK to choose what is a 'good" school in HK is, "is it expensive?" If it is, it must be good.

Totally HK cultured targeted.
Just my opini ...

SORRY Pianokc!

我上面所講的"某某"絕對絕對絕對唔係針對你!!!!

只係指出你之前所講的例子, 係有D"以偏概全"! 好似講到單單就係因為貴所以多人爭!
老實講, 我地為囡囡選學校, 呢點都係原因之一, 特別係我先生會更重視呢點! (學校設施好, 師資高, 小班教學 etc ---> 學費貴的原因! 學費貴而學生的"背景"應該大部份都差唔多)
但, 最重要原因都係因為覺得適合自己的女兒! 如果唔係, why not揀CIS, HKIS果D, 香港都有好多貴學校!~

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Thanks for all parents comments.

I visited this school last tme which gave me deeply impressed esp the primary students with fluent mandarin and english I saw them when I took my son for assessment. This is what I want. I am not concerned any IB programme as we will send my son study aboard after few years. Agree with "pooh "that(學校設施好, 師資高, 小班教學 etc ---> 學費貴的原因! 學費貴而學生的"背景"應該大部份都差唔多)但, 最重要原因都係因為覺得適合自己的兒!
I want to get some comments for any parents kids are studying there would give me some comments. I know the competition is very high I don't know whether my son has any chance or not.