Posted by
megan2002
14 yrs ago
My daughter is 8yrs old and had recently been diagnosed with ADHD. We are natives and my daughter attends a local school in TKO. She is now in P3 and I can see she is starting to struggle with ALL her homework. Weekdays she gets up at 7 and goes to bed at 2130... after her homework. No playtime in the weekends, just study. It's heartbreaking to see her studying these long hours, when she should be out playing!! The schools hand out 7/8 homework a day. It's just ridiculous!!!
Me and my husband have decided to apply for ESF / Renaissance College for her. We are also considering writing to the principles of these two schools about my daughter's ADHD illness. We do understand there is a waiting list and we have no intends to jump queues, but our reason for writing to the principles is so that when the day the interview arrives we hope the schools will be understanding and not turn their backs to my daughter when they see her unfavorable past exam results.
Do you think it would do any good if I wrote to the schools and tell them about my daughter's situation?
Any advise would be grateful. We do not want to see our daughter suffer anymore.
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Do you know the tuition for Harbour School? I heard it's really high....
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Strawblade, thanks for the advice but we live in Sai Kung. Harbour school would be too far for us to consider
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Thanks Cara, really don't know what we should do! But I'm thinking of drafting a letter anyway for reference just in case I will need it in the future.
Thanks again for your advice!
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Bibs
14 yrs ago
As a mother with a child with special needs, my advice is to tell the school the truth. Your child can only receive the support needed if the school knows what that is! We live in SK too and my child goes to ESF in a Learning Support placement. Good luck!
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PrincipAL not principles
principle= rule, law , edict etc
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That's for ur support Bibs. Really appreciate it.
HKG2010, that's for the correction!! Lol
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Tell them! ESF is very good compared to lots of other international schools when it comes to learning dificulties. There are also Down's Syndrome kids in certain schools, and plenty of children have problems with / suffer from: motor skills, ADHD, autism, language delays, etc. Of course they need to balance the number of children in order to support them but overall they are very supportive. My son will enter Y1 next year and has an expressive language delay. He got accepted. He's fine otherwise, just behind with spoken language.
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