Monday, January 7, 2013
Do any expats in Hong Kong send their children to local schools?
Do any expats in Hong Kong send their children to local schools?
By "local schools", I mean English medium schools (public and private) that follow the local education system and prepare their students for the HKCEE and HKALE. By "local schools", I mean schools: 1. That are generally more high-pressured than international schools, 2. Where most pupils speak Hong Kong English rather than British/American English, 3. Where discipline and behaviour/dress codes are generally stricter than in international schools, 4. Where Chinese is a compulsory subject. Personally, I believe that if expatriate children have the ability to get into an elite local school like Diocesan Girl's School, and are willing to learn Chinese, the education they receive would be far more rigorous and superior to what they'd get at an international school. On the other hand, sending expatriate children to mediocre local schools would probably hurt their future prospects.
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1 :
when i move to hong kong and have kids. i'll be sending my kids to a local school.
2 :
Yes, I had school mates who were Indians / Japanese / Korean and some of them took Chinese too, some of them took French and skipped Chinese. I studied in Catholic Anglo-Chinese school since kindegarden all the way up to Secondary,(not DGS though) and I do not speak Chinglish. Your comment regarding to "Hong Kong English" in your question can't apply to all local students in Hong Kong. By the way, DGS certainly is an elite school and definitely no girls there speaks Chingish! DBS (Diocesan Boy's School) is famous as well, do you know how hard to get into these school? There are quite a few local Anglo-Chinese schools are elite and really hard to get into + to overcome the pressure from school works and examinations are not easy to handle / relieve! I used to have a lot of home works and was forced to memorize new words each day from dictionary since I was 6!
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