joanthony 發表於 13-11-12 10:46
no offense, only interested to know if they will be bolshy and less respect to parents due to the fr …
On your first concern on respect. I think it has more to do with family influence than school? So far I haven't seen major concern from my son on this but hey who knows. He's right in the middle of his teens and you know how rebellious they can be. I am keeping my fingers crossed on this, and if one day he does turn out to be a 頂心杉 I will only blame myself not the school.
You have every right to doubt the Chinese proficiency of international school students. It's a known fact that Chinese programs of international schools are sub par as compare to that of local schools. Most parents engage private tutoring at home and we do the same. I have to admit that private tutoring isn't as effective as learning in school with classmates, but it does help a great deal. My son is in year 11 (equivalent to F4 in local school), and my assessment of his Chinese proficiency is about F2/F3 of local school students. He has no difficulty reading Chinese newspaper. He reads Chinese novels (衛斯理 and the like, although very rarely. He understandably prefers to read English a lot more than Chinese). He can write 1000 word essays in Chinese (I know because his tutor's been drilling him on this a lot lately). He's doing bilingual for IB Diploma and will be taking the exams in 2 years. I expect him to at least score 5 or 6 in Chinese, and I would think that would be F4/F5 standard?
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