MAKING a choice on which school your children should attend is a critical decision and it is no doubt that it can be challenging as it will affect their future. More often than not, parents would grapple at the multitude of factors that influence these decisions, as it is crucial to determine what kind of educational environment and experience you would want for your children, as well as your long-term educational goals for them.


Whether in the early years, or at the primary or secondary school level, the choices can be perplexing, especially with an array of private, international to vernacular and public schools available in the country. Just like our diverse cultural and ethnic landscape, the Malaysian education platform provides parents with an indeed tougher and wider range of options.


And speaking of options, the paradigm has now also been shifted from the norm − where parents once opted to send their children to national schools, it has now become a common scenario where more parents send their children to international schools.


This is proven with the rise in the numbers of student enrolment in international schools each year. According to the statistics provided by the Ministry of Education, 20,000 students were enrolled in international schools in 2013, compared to 15,000 the year before, as reported by iMoney.my.


Surprising, or not, this fact makes us question: Why are these numbers escalating? Have parents really lost confidence in our national education system? Is our national education system really poor in quality, resulting to the poor performance of local students as according to the Programme For International Student Assessment (PISA)'s ranking -- where Malaysia is languishing in a dismal position at 52 out of 72 countries



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quality education.. i studied there before.. much fun in learning compare in national school

Have parents really lost confidence in our national education system? Is our national education system really poor in quality, resulting to the poor performance of local students as according to the Programme For International Student Assessment (PISA)'s ranking -- where Malaysia is languishing in a dismal position at 52 out of 72 countries



You don't say

Free from religion.

Isn't international school farking expensive? Couple weeks ago dunno who opened thread in /k/ and calculated that entire schooling in international school costs rm900k+ in school fees alone.

more accustomed to the racial differences and more focus towards personality which leads to sometimes stupid egoistic ideal that nobody gives a shit about.

Ada wang so why not.

Good stuff doesn't come cheap.

Unlike gomen school where you pay peanuts and get taught by monkeys.

U wull become less religious think wiser this is true

is it better to send children to international during primary or secondary school?

Well if I have the money, I won't let my kids study in national schools

/k afford to have this

Later when not money.. Blame gov for high cost of living

Primary. They will pick up a nice American or British accent (depending on the teacher - most international school head teachers are ang moh).

Secondary should send early. Hard to undo bad habits picked up in gomen school.

international school study high level subject

Vernacular school all full already

Cannot downgrade. Deswai go international school

networking from young

agree..send during primary will pick nice english accent.

meanwhile during secondary they will build connection with rich kids

900k divide by 12 years is 75k/annum.

other than better education...nothing

i know a national school teacher who sends all her kids to private. if the own teacher don't trust their own system, i bet our education system something wrong lo

Last time during 70's private school was much cheaper and affordable

I'm starting to think parents are willing to spend more money on private education because they don't have the time to educate their kids themselves.

Depends. International school in Malaysia uses Cambridge curriculum, which is generally better than KBSR and KBSM, but I find for example that the Mathematics are somewhat easier than our gomen school but the English is much more rigorous.

It's the teachers (well paid, highly motivated and intelligent ang mohs) and students (usually rich and somewhat more intelligent than your average kampung boy) that make the international school experience better.

Lol even the ministers never send their kids to national school.

I bet the education minister also send his son/daughter study abroad

It's legit yo.

even local malays are complaining about the talibanisation of our nationals school.. there was a thread a day ago but got nuked..

Whut....this is topkek.

Wah semalam baru Hari Guru hari ni dah panggil diorang monkeys?

At least they thought me everything I need to know to further my studies in college, get a good job and not to be a shallow bigot like you.

fork more money for child's lavish lifestyle in order to blend in with other kids

the annual fees is > fresh grad pay

900k gamble to get connection so that able to songlap 42b.

not bad at all.

ada wang ada international school

international skools focus on learning not political agenda's or religious stuff

So that parents can show off at morning market

Kids end up 14th floor due to preassure and 0 freedom

No need to talk so much la, make it simple:
Rich parents > Lazy/ No time/ Don't know how to teach their children > Want children to be successful so they got face > Choose the school with the best reputation/ result > Pay good money hoping for good results

And some retards has the cheek to write

'I am a chinese and i support close down vernacular school etc etc'

Bloody idiot

You assumed rich people are stupid

No I didn't mean that, you said that.

Pft. Someone is so full of himself. Whateverlah!

Ah. Talking with 'i didnt say that' but implied kaw kaw

IT THIS NEWS?????

advantages: kiasu level up

Nope. Do you know what is stupid? Poor but act rich is stupid.

Well good for you. Unfortunately for me, the teachers I got in gomen school were shallow bigots.

so that their kids punya fb will have a lot of angmoh on friend list

heck, even parents also get to add a lot of angmoh parents on fb

so can befriend loyalties and cronies sons and daughters for future JV...ala Jho style

Competition to Chinese private schools too. If they don't reform, then good luck.

Wow

You are knowledgable in chinese private school reform too.

Now adays. Trooper sure need to learn many stuff eh

i probably will send my kid to international school too
although my class mostly straight A's, but most teacher seriously doing close to nothing for a top school in district lol
during my years in primary and secondary school, i only met three good teachers

some so call teacher just read from text book, simply copy to blackboard, teach and understand their own, sleep, or us self study

one of my relative send her children to a private school near kajang. Gues what? Each semester (3 month) need RM6k+ per person not not including meal o. She send her 2 little boys there. So each semester need RM12k+. Her kids only 7 years old and 6 years old.

yeah just look at how /k behave

This post has been edited by chokia: May 19 2015, 05:08 PM

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