My ex boss sent his kid to a boarding school in England.. hefty school fees like fak for high-school edu but his kid rub shoulders with helang kids frm all over EU.. school break go horriday in friends family chalets in Switzerland lah, go to some villa in Italy lah. While we pipit can only dream abt it.

if u r rich currently, u already know what to do..

if u have to calculate whether u can afford it, and make certain projections about ur future earnings, best include a huge buffer...

i have a few frens/relatives who struggled financially..

i know one guy who worked overseas send his kids to international, suddenly kena retrenched.

then both he and wife have to struggle with whatever savings they had to push the kids to complete their education.

kids already form 3, cannot return back to SMK because all the while in private.

those who have relative in JB, stand a better chance to have kids in Spore.

Why? because can send to grandparents to take care.

because Spore not friendly for nursery facilities.

work late also, need to pick up kid late at night, nursery there expensive and no layan stay back late.

my friend who worked in china, came to spore for greneer pastures, turns out nightmare because he can't find convenience to place his kid, due to spore being regional office and he has to travel a lot

heard international school got BM and mandarin.

but their standard not so good.

i met a lot of international graduates whose BM is not so good.

Would you rather your kids go to helang school or pipit school?

Cost-wise, it's actually not that more expensive when you consider all the facilities and extra curricular activities included in private schools that are not available in public schools. For helang parents, these are necessities.

This post has been edited by ReoAyanami: May 17 2022, 03:26 PM

Primary school in sjkc
Secondary school in
1 chinese independant (独中）or
2 gov chinese school (eg Catholic High) or
3 sekolah kluster kecemerlangan or
4 gov english school with long history (eg St John/methodist) or
5 good private (non commercialized) school (eg Sri KL)

Best of both world and no need to pay thru nose for fees.

Avoid "shoplot" schools and commercialized international/private school

dont worry too much for your kids.

my parents poor as well. like super poor. b40 kind.

all of us is in foreign country now. we all capable.

parents just do parent best, love children before they face real world. dont busy look for money only and bring up char siews.

Senior Middle for Sri KL is about 40k or more a year.

St John still good ?

chinese independent - 50 people per class ? depend if ur kid can pass entrance exam.

sekolah cermerlang ? - this one good, but that doesn't avoid the occassional ridiculous education change of gomen would propose.

private is high keras, international only good deal.

the cheapest around for senior middle is 40k a year and some range 50k-200k per year.

and we still got to save for their university education.

for nons, the possibility of not enter local university is very high depending the course you want to take up.
nons grades must be very gooding because entrance for nons is very narrow to local uni.

Sure mahal yuran to pay for int school. Why not kalau better, tak kisah. Good for kids

shop lot private school cannot, especially those outer kemuning area. lol

One of my far uncle sent her daughter and son to international school because they are not doing well in smk, they thought they will have a better environment and quality friends over there compared to local sekolah menengah.

Ended up both the daughter and son get close with spoiled friends, flaunting wealth by driving luxury cars to school, skipped classes, smoking and most of them entered that school are uneducated and dont want to study further.

In short, they attended rubbish international school with outdated education.

Can't blame them as they are mostly ugly, I mean when they are looking at each other they also lose appetite, how they hell they wanna have sex right?

Firstly dun wanna be talibanised in gomen school, puasa time eat in Toilets, want to be taught by dedicated teachers not degree dropouts/grad with no jobs, learn science and maths in English not BM. No need to waste time competing with ore kito and still not get a place in local univs that mostly financed by taxes from Nons.

Only go SRJK© to learn a language to get advantage in job market esp overseas with foreign companies that invest in PRC, later goto private/international schools in Year 7 until yr10 prepare for O levels, do matriculation or continue 1 year in local college then degree program with masters twinning overseas then get a job there which values mandarin speaking which will send you overseas as an expat or expat package. At least with 2-5 years working experience b4 returning to my or better singkie which wants Malaysians instead of PRC or India.

luckily in penang unker still have good choices of SRJKC schools and IND 2nd Skool..

skip SPM.. take UEC.. go overseas uni straight..

I was thinking of send to SRJK then international school in year 7 also.
but some parents don't even have the resources, straight after kindergarden send to international.
even if they had, it would be a loss because not able to grasp the mandarin. I heard international school not so good in teaching mandarin and BM.

not just the concerns you have on SMK.
I had very bad exp in SMK. My SMK was a very reputable school before gomen took over, and when they did, the good teachers left, and replaced with teachers who didn't bother to teach well and some even ponteng classes. It dipped in quality over the years.

Yes i plan send my kids to cempaka. RM1800 a month

International school oftentimes only have 1 class per week on Mandarin, not sufficient.

Thats why I send mine to SRJKC for primary, then switch to international for secondary. That way atleast the mandarin base is strong enough.