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I'm answering the question the OP asked on what is the difference between the schools. No offense intended unless it's offensive to have international schools in Singapore who employ foreign teachers. What grades/subjects are the local teachers teaching at Chatsworth, ISS and OFS? cant gibe you any...

both OFS and ISS employ locals, Chatsworth has employed locals as well as several others. Also there are some locals schools up (the one in bukit timah comes to mind) which has quite a few expat children going there with no complaint from the parents. You seem to be assuming that a local can never b...

splat wrote:the local schools employ local teachers and the international schools employ international teachers.

That is not always so, many international school have local teachers and TA's working for them, granted the majority are expat.

avoid CNIS (chinese International school), nuff said.

I refuse on the grounds that it might incriminate me.

@KSL:You might not realize it but you have made an excellent stealth argument why learning English is much easier than Chinese to learn. And in doing so indirectly shown the foundations of various education systems, yes Asian education is based on rote coz you need it just to learn the "1400 charact...

I think some of the posters on this thread raise some interesting points. 1. Should the children be penalized for a choice their parents made? 2. Why are the penalties for not doing national service so high? I know it serves as a deterrent but given the dislike of NS here in Singapore it seems to be...

as long as you fully know the consequences of what you want to do and can live with those then I say do it. You wouldn't be the first person to leave their homeland and never go back, of course you may want to know where your going and what you will do their and all that but dont let fear of the fut...

If one parent is at home then it is quicker and much more effective to home school. Of course there is the whole social aspect of school that is missed out but there are groups for such things and not all of the social interaction at school is good, home schooling has a lot of positives and not so m...

Ahh you must be talking about the primary at CNIS, yes they are doing better than the rest of the school, its seems the problems resides mostly in the secondary and high and the management and I have herd many good things about the head of the primary, a lady from Bangladesh I think. Your problems w...

I did some checking (my source - a mother who has a child in the middle school and a mother with 2 kids in the primary) and CNIS does not have a new principal, its the same old school principal and the problems there continue unabated (for example there have been many staff leaving in the last 6 mon...

Most SGPers speak more than one language so its to be expected that english gets murdered here, I have met many SGPers and even the "well educated" have said things which just had me laughing, get used to it. I mangle Hokien and Japanese and make my friends laugh or cringe depending.

Singtel also will hand out your number if you dont have it listed as private, but on the whole I just politely interrupt the caller and say im not interested and thats usually that.

more news about the "saga" at CNIS. Just herd that some of the key staff have quit and moved on, after less than a year as well, and some teachers too. The student problems remain as bad as ever Im told. Worse of worse all this is happening as exam time approaches, not the best time to be leaving. G...

thanks for the info, will check them out.