at one early point my wife and I had checked out the Canadian International School when school-shopping for the Coconut, ~11 years ago when she was 5.
after the show-and-tell by headmaster, teachers, and model students, and the campus tour, my wife asked me what I thought.
I responded, and I remember the exact words, "good kids, great tour guides, nice school. but when these kids go into the real world and not in canada, most of them would be eat alive sashimi fashion, w/ the limbs and antenna still twitching"
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The experiment is on-going, but so far the coconut is cerebral and polite, well-liked by peers and teachers, helpful to others, leads well, kind-soul and public- / civil-minded, good dancer / writer / speaker, well-read in literature, history, and well-travelled, can cook okay, is organised, manages time good-enough, a saver, GPA 4.0+, done much charity work, scored 99+ percentile in standardised tests, perfect score in college entrance science, and loves all living organisms
Unclear what if anything we might still help her learn. Had she attended the Canadian school, what might turn out different could be that she be too polite, and extend her love of living organisms to inanimate rivers and streams. But then again, she does like rivers and streams, mountains and clouds.
She is polite, but not too polite. That could be the difference that matters. |
