I have lived here for 12 years.
People say the same things about here. (thailand).
'"Here" being Thailand.... which isn't either Indonesia or Bali, you do keep banging on about what you're leaving behind & using it as a yardstick
I have lived here for 12 years.
People say the same things about here. (thailand).
'"Here" being Thailand.... which isn't either Indonesia or Bali, you do keep banging on about what you're leaving behind & using it as a yardstick
I have a question. Are we talking only about international schools being garbage or all schools in Bali? I remember my wife's sister attending high school and one day I tried to help her and found it was seriously difficult. And when my wife was in college I also tried to help her but found I couldn't because it was all over my head. I have no experience with the international schools but I don't think that the local schools are slacking at all.
What was the difference in your child...good or bad ??
I think the scaremongerer in this thread is generalising way to much....like anywhere there is good and bad...like anywhere, there will be good schools and good teachers with good results...doubt they are the majority, so you need to dig around and find them.
Thailand has a very poor reputation for schools...pathetic actually.....many Inter schools are simply cash cows and 'look at me' projects for the owners to strut about all pompus like.
However I have found a very good school which my kids seemed to have excelled in...not at everything, but who does....but it is time to move onto the next adventure....and go surfing.
I have a question. Are we talking only about international schools being garbage or all schools in Bali? I remember my wife's sister attending high school and one day I tried to help her and found it was seriously difficult. And when my wife was in college I also tried to help her but found I couldn't because it was all over my head. I have no experience with the international schools but I don't think that the local schools are slacking at all.
Everything about this subject and thread makes me absolutely ecstatic that I'm past the reproducing age and can forget all that bullshit. On the other hand nothing makes me sadder than reading the doomed/hopeful replies and questions of those that are still confronted with this problem.
Might I also point out that in the many of those replies it seems to me that it's the "other" partner, the one that hasn't made that decision to come to Bali but is only following on in the footsteps of the decider, that is leading with their concerns.
To recap: IMHO if you're only coming for 1 or 2 years then your children will survive the experience and might even possibly take something away of great value from the chance to have lived so closely with a foreign system and culture.
If on the other hand you are planning a longer term association with the Indonesian school system then you really have only one responsible choice and that is to board your child in a ridiculously expensive European boarding school (US boarding schools are shite too and teach the High School Diploma which no one on the planet thinks is good, except those that have it...).
You don't need to do this immediately as those schools are really very, very good at ironing out the bullshit that your kids have been exposed to previously.
The really import years are from 14 to 18 either for the IB (International Baccalaureate) or the English "A" Level system (Cambridge and/or Oxford board). This will allow junior/miss to progress onto a meaningful and hopefully productive college life drinking and shagging to excess and then running a company of window cleaners, as opposed to being one.
Start saving your pennies now and by the time the kiddies are that age is should only cost upwards of USD $50k a year to send them there - they will be eternally grateful and you will have to do your own windows.
If you have seen the numb-nutted and plain stupid requests for this information that have appeared here on the forum over the several years I've been thrashing the posters you will hopefully understand that I'm firmly on the side of the kiddies and I truly think they are in the hands of people that really don't have their best interests at heart - hence my tone.
Perhaps he just does not want kids screaming at his favourite restaurant and its his mission to eliminate them....one kiddie at a time.
Then they are more than welcome on our food safari as its adults only....
Naked ?
Bali Food Safari... hope shameless plugging is allowed... : ()