ISF student composition

hong0706

I held that now more than 50% or even 60% of the foundation year students are native mandarin speakers, up from 20-30% a few years ago, and this % is likely to increase further in future years. Can ISF parents confirm this？ （I am not for or against this, i just want to know the fact)

HKTHK

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Not true

hong0706

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I see. Then what is the %?

fatcni

Not sure the % but I believe so as during interview, I can feel about half of the interviewees are mandarin speaking and they belong to the mandarin batch.
And during school jam day, I also here lots of mandarin rather than eng.

musicien

My son is in g1. For his class only two kids r with pure Pth backgd. Ard 40% r fr mixed family 50% Hk. One fr non chinese family. I don't think this matters becox all of them speak fluent pth and those fr mainland except one also speak perfect English. Of coz if u r not native or with a prh speaking parent u will need to pay some effort on chinese.  This also applies for English subject. But I think it really depends a lot on the child's learning ability.

nintendo

Curious why you asked. Has ISF's strength always been their stress of chinese/mandarin for early primary? If that is a concern, may be you have not done enough due diligence.

caa

It is a reasonable question as one looking for teachers being native mandarin speakers may not necessarily look for a school environment comprising mostly students from mainland China

nintendo

But, at a school the stress their strength in chinese (70% chinese 30% english), it possibly attracts more family the prefer speaking chinese. I think parents should be reasonable. They want their kids to learn more chinese, yet feel uncomfortable with more chinese speaking families? Well, it would be like not happy with too many english speaking families at esf. And not happy with too many japanese speaking families at jis. I would say that is quite odd. Anyway, that is only my view. I am sure they have their rights to not happy with too many chinese soeaking families at isf.

hong0706

musicien 發表於 15-3-10 08:21
My son is in g1. For his class only two kids r with pure Pth backgd. Ard 40% r fr mixed family 50% H ...

what do you mean by mixed family?

hong0706

nintendo 發表於 15-3-10 11:03
But, at a school the stress their strength in chinese (70% chinese 30% english), it possibly attract ...

I am just asking for facts from ISF parents, not suggesting or arguing what is good or bad.

shadeslayer

原帖由 hong0706 於 15-03-10 發表
I am just asking for facts from ISF parents, not suggesting or arguing what is good or bad.

Curious to know how do you intend to use this information in school decisions.

HKTHK

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My guess of the current FY class is between 25% to 35%

HKTHK

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The % varies from year to year but doubt it will move significantly higher going forward. There are constraints on that number growing since bilingual immersion requires native speakers from both languages and as a PIS, 70% of students also need to hold HKID

musicien

One non chinese plus one chinese/hk