Are we talking about AMERICAN International School? It's an AMERICAN school for god's sake. Last year when I was in Connecticut at Choate Rosemary's campus (picking up my girl from a summer writing workshop) I saw a school packed with students with heavy make up, mini skirts and so forth. So what? Anybody dares say Choate Rosemary Hall is no good? Stop being too local and judging everything with too local a standard.
Sometimes I really doubt why this forum is called INTERNATIONAL school forum. Where is the international perspective and open-mindedness? Here in this forum (probably in HK in general), examination results and university destinations are everything. So pathetic (boring and uninspiring too).
My son got an offer from AIS as well, for pre-reception (not sure if they called it that way) starting end of August this year. But we rejected the offer at last. Overall experience to AIS is not as impressive. We had our first interview with the school principal, she is an extremely nice person. We had a good chat with her and our boy seems to like the school. On our second interview with the classroom teacher though, we were being sent inside the classroom with lots of kids having a music (singing, instrument) class just right next to us. My boy nor I couldn't hear what the teacher said or whatsoever. Most ridiculous thing is that I can see another teacher or teaching assistant, sitting at the corner of the classroom having her lunch while the kids are having class?! We passed by the playground and there were a group of secondary school students I believe, having volleyball match. The teacher was just standing in the middle, without much of the passion, watching. Having said that, the kids that I came across with inside AIS, was polite and well-mannered. At least when the teacher asked them to show us the way to the administrative office, they offered a good helping hand.