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clara34
17 yrs ago
How do GSIS parents feel about them moving to N.T?Do you feel the school is nurturing enough and even though with the move,will you still stay?Are your kids able to cope well,with the school squeezing full curriculum into half day classes?
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have you been to the school yet?
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cd
17 yrs ago
Personally when I had 2 kids there, we only found it a 'nuturing' school if you were a straight A student, otherwise it was easy to be forgotten. best thing we ever did for them moving them from there. It definately wasn't the school for us, but that doesn't mean its not the school for you. You need to go and look, ask questions and decide for yourselves, thats the same for any school in HK.
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gwern
17 yrs ago
Thy don't take children who have diagnosed special needs such as dyslexia, even German speakers. This indicates to me that they (school admin I'm guessing, not staff who do not make these decisions) are not really concerned about the process of education but the results at the end.
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hi!are you children in primARY or kindergarten?does the parents there have to give extra tuitions to kids because the full day curricucum is all combined into an half day school?
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gwern, it may be that they don't have a special needs program and ARE concerned about those children getting the trained help that they need in a proper special needs environment...not as simple as clumping them all together and hiring an extra teacher....
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We don't have a child there but have considered GSIS. Went and did a tour, met the CFO and met a staff member.... NURTURING is definitely NOT a word I would describe GSIS. It's gone from the top choice to the last choice!
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so pm me and tell me how not nurturing enough?
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cd
17 yrs ago
To Gwern, agree after having 2 kids there, I would also say that the real reason they don't have special needs kids is to keep their results high. To Clara, the half day school still manages to achieve everything, in fact they're more advanced than a lot of schools academically but I diefinately felt my son missed out in other ways. It was hard for him to make close friends as they don't have a lunch break, so they have a very limited time to play together apart from in the classroom environment. Or maybe it was just the HK side/Kowloon side divide. We are from 'the dark side', and maybe only a couple of times in 2 years did anyone ever come to our place for a playdate. If I wanted my son to have a playdate I always had to go their houses. It extended to my daughters friends who were teenagers at the time. She always had to go to the cinema in Pacific place, not once did her friends come to Kowloon Tong, even though it would be the same number of stops for them as it was for her. Small things like that add up after a while. I remember a teacher said to me once that he wouldn't said his primary age child there as they pushed them too hard.
But if you want results its an excellent school.
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