Hi we have a kid with offer of space in both schools in early secondary school . We like both schools but are concerned about fit ?
- our kid is gifted and top of the class in academics and strong in Mandarin (we are not native chinese) , not sporty and finds it harder to be social with lots of kids .
We believe he will do well in academics no matter what the school .
Our concern with CIS is the feedback that we have from various quarters about it being snooty with very rich kids (that does not sound great), highly academically oriented (which is fine ) but often with way too much homework and rigidity .
We would like a relaxed environmnet as we have the confidence our kid will do well academically anyway and we like IGSE ( CIS has MYP which is good too , but at this stage IGCSE makes more sense for us) but we do not know enough about FIS - is it simply 'chilled out' with no academic rigour or is there some rigour ?
what is the discipline like - we heard some rumours of vulgarity and poor behaviour, bullying
what is a good fit between these two after you read about our kid's profile ? any feedback welcome