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Surely there are expats here that can't cough up those huge sums for International schools, what are you doing? I do not live in a condo, do not own a car, no maid either, my smartphone is almost 4 years old and I have never been to Thailand. In case my daughter gets rejected next year I should, wi...

I wasn't talking about Singapore alone, I have lived on 3 different continents. And there are many good and bad succesfull people. My point is that proper English will not guarantee success in life (I thought it was clear we are discussing English). If you can't recognise a good oportunity in life t...

*) unlikely an average parent will see anything wrong at the early-mid stages of the education, but as the other poster mentioned, this is a marathon with the end product that matters. I was recently approached by some early teens who wanted to ask some questions for their school project, and alrea...

My son goes to a local school here, he is in P4 and good English is not your problem. Now that we have that out of the way, excessive cursing IS a really big problem. He is very social and has lots of friends, when they come to our house before they can enter they have to promise they will not use f...

Interesting Wd40, it's much of what I've been saying for a while now. Glad to have some external support. ;-) you might have been saying it, but I have experienced it ... unfortunately. we came hare on a very low offer thinking ... it's a "foot in a door", we'll move up soon. But we (my hubby in fa...

katbh - how are they doing in Secondary? From what I have heard it's pretty hard and after that only the best of the best can get into the NUS or NUT. I'm not sure I'll be able to save enough money in time to send 2 kids to study abroad. Mine are both fairly smart and would easily get into US/UK Uni...

well there is a lot to read, and I can't go through everything you all posted here but would like to say one thing ... ... my son is in P3 now and it's getting though/er. He is a good student (90%) but still there are many things he needs help with because they are above his age ability (mostly math...

Hi AnnabelG, My daughter has recently joined the nursery class at White Lodge and we like it a lot. At first I was looking at the international schools but did not like them. Then a friend of mine recommended White Lodge preschool and I think that has been a much better option for us. There are many...