Mar 9 2023, 01:59 AM
QUOTE(trojandude @ Mar 8 2023, 11:59 PM)
I'll be very frank - expensive schools often have bad ROI. In all honesty, if you're going to judge a school based on ROI value, you'll never ever be satisfied. It's something like splurging on a LV or Rolex. High-quality, but in the end they provide the same function.
The cost to study in US these days, especially a private university say UPenn would be +- RM1m. The cost of study international school would be what? RM50-100k a year depending on which school you go.
The truth is, it's a diminishing return. You pay a lot, but you gain only very little. It's what you can make of it in the end.
You gain exposure to different cultures and people/connections that is simply not quantifiable.
So stop looking at things from ROI perspective, and go only 1) if you can afford to "lose" that sum of money 2) expose your kids to a unique environment
Many folks can afford to send their kids to private schools / study overseas, but not all of them can accept their kids potentially getting nothing or barely anything out of it. What separates these two kind of folks is simply whether you're actually rich, or you're just enough rich.
TLDR - Private/International school is a luxury
Basically this ^The cost to study in US these days, especially a private university say UPenn would be +- RM1m. The cost of study international school would be what? RM50-100k a year depending on which school you go.
The truth is, it's a diminishing return. You pay a lot, but you gain only very little. It's what you can make of it in the end.
You gain exposure to different cultures and people/connections that is simply not quantifiable.
So stop looking at things from ROI perspective, and go only 1) if you can afford to "lose" that sum of money 2) expose your kids to a unique environment
Many folks can afford to send their kids to private schools / study overseas, but not all of them can accept their kids potentially getting nothing or barely anything out of it. What separates these two kind of folks is simply whether you're actually rich, or you're just enough rich.
TLDR - Private/International school is a luxury
Having a few friends as teachers in international schools, they have nothing good to say.
International school is like a placebo effect to some who believe that international school is the best place to be.
Probably the only good thing a student will gain is the connection with other wealthy kids and basically that's it.
The rest is up to parents upbringing and whether they spend time with their children. If a child is lazy, an international school will not transform that student into some superstar A student.
Examples of some real issues below:
There are also some 'ahbengs' in international school who stubbornly speak Mandarin everyday among their own cliques despite the 'English only' policy in school.
Another case was one particular student who complained to the HOD about having to write essays as homework. To please the student, the teacher was then called in the HOD room and the HOD instructed the teacher to stop giving essay as homework to the entire class.
Several students continuously coming late to school (guess who fetch them late? Their own parents and they don't even bother). The school called the parents to remind them not to fetch their kids late to school and yet they don't bother.
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