Record waiting lists at schools

[carang]

you're "helplessly reacting to life"??? what the heck does that mean?

sorry, if you don't live life and only react to it, you aren't my kinda joe.

[East_coast]

Are you saying the world is unfair? That people come into this world with different endowments? Be it their family's wealth, their parents' intelligence, their own ability? What a shocker...
I take it you are all for affirmative action in HK then.

Isn't one of the purposes of state paid for education to try to break the cycle of privilege due to inherited wealth and make society more meritocratic and allowing people to maximise their utility.

[East_coast]

nope, they have after-school homework help! free of charge! funnily enough, my son's chinese marks are higher than his english. if given a choice, he always does his "easy" chinese homework first and leaves the english until the end "because it's so hard!"... not really, i don't think. i just don't like the way they approach teaching english.

Not just book based language courses but also life skills stuff like team sports, the arts, and obviously more math with this being HK.

[carang]

of course! they also provide: violin, football, tae kwon do, putonghua etc at a very good price ($1300 for the next 4 months! all done in chinese so that his listening and speaking skills are further honed).

my kids also have a swimming coach whom we've used for the past 3 summers.