大家對香港中學教育有甚麼不滿嗎？

[crosstimer]

各位DB仔︰

可以幫我一個忙嗎？我是零九年畢業的舊生，現在是香港中文大學的學生。我現正進行一項有關香港中學教育流弊的研究。你可以幫我填一份網上問卷 (www.tinyurl.com/hkedusurvey)，讓我可以知道諸位對現今教育制度的看法嗎？另外，可以幫忙邀請你身邊其他曾經讀過香港中學的朋友來填一填這份問卷嗎？謝謝你。

Andy上

備註︰這個調查也接受家長參與。

[gyung]

Title of this thread will only attract participants who think the system is out of line.

Survey result will be biased, hence not of much use to your project.

You may want to reconsider the survey questions as well.

[honeybee]

In past decades, we used to have education reform every 3~5~7 years with similiar objectives. We used to appoint UK educationists to give us advice on the reform. haha

[honeybee]

Teachers are encouraged to spend 150 hours in Continous Professioanl Development activities.

I think teachers have done a good job in classrooms. If they have 150 to spare, they should pick up some sports skills, learn kung Fu/TaiChi, visit museums/ HK relics, go out to get sunlight and breath in fresh air, or make love to their spouses

[honeybee]

The following message in the la salle chatboard written by an old boy sent me into a deep thought

''......this year, only a few fresh f.1ers still continue in athletics training. Our C grade sprinting guys are highly concentrate in studies and they will escape training often.This make me difficult to arrange training for them and their parents seem not really supporting their child to play sport becoz of great competition in studies and sometimes complain to coach having too many training though 2-3 times per week. .....''

i think After Song Dynasty, Chinese were no loneger fond of exercise. Many western missionaries in China in the 18 and 19 century wrote that Chinese seldom did exercises. You may wonder doesn't China have many Kung Fu practionaries?? Very few in the old days, much less nowadays. Kung Fu is never a popular exercise among chinese. Bruce Lee's great- great- Wing Chun master only taught a handful of stduents.

Anyway, To promote sports, we first need to educate Chinese parents, Chinese grandparents as well as their Chinese relatives that the importance of physical fitness, by holding more talks and senimar on sports and exercise in Orientation, PTA meeing....

Secondly, we should reduce the study pressure of stduents. We don't need to rank students according to their mid-term exam results. They don't have to compete with their classmates as all are Chinatown people.

Mid-term exam results won't appear in official transcript and be screened by future university admssion officers and employers, so we can afford to make it more fun and less depressing. We can test more on stduents presentation skills and discussion skills.. We can put more weigh on stduents paper, and project than memorization exam performance.

Thirdly, we can provide more academic tutors to assist athlete- stduents's homework.

[honeybee]

All Chinese schools have a subject called Physical education (PE). I wonder what do Chinese stduents learn in PE?

Do Chinese students acquire sports skills , knowledge and sports origin, rules as well as mediation?

Do Chinese schools have a compulsory fitness exam, to assess the physical fitness of the pupils?

Chinese schools copied and pasted the course name of UK schools . But what we do have in PE curriculum??

[honeybee]

Many schools are going to lose Chinese history subject under the reform. Chi Hist is a subject even chi hist teachers do not like it: had to memorize 90 essay model answers (12000 words)for A-level; Form fivers had to memorize^*^#$@#^*()&&. (and most forget what they studied after the exam)

However, The importance of history should never be underestimated. Almost every subject and field of study is linked to history. From the various sciences, to the cultural aspects, arts, food, politics and religion, history has a foothold in all of them and is indeed all encompassing. Historical events of the past define the social norms and values that we have in our societies today. It highlights the differences among different societies, cultures and religions, and puts into context the daily events that are occurring.

We can play DVDs of Discovery, History CHannel to stduents during lunch hour and after school, which have a lot of creditability and memorability.TVB Peral also has many Science and history program with chinese substitutes. Watching one hour of these programs is better than taking 5 hours lectures!! We can use our lecture theature which are seldom used. I remember Form one classrooms used to be equipped with a TV and #$%$ which never be used. We should take advantage of soemthing which are expensive and dusty.

[honeybee]

After the Information Day, Mr. T. Chang said no parents asked abt DBS education mission and objectives , development plan and improvement program. Parents only cared how to prepared CV for their sons.

How many HK Chinese parents know or care what is school mission or development plan? They all studied in ' Baby-Sitting home ' or ' Juvenile Care Centre'. Schools officials should educate HK chinese parents first , then these chinese parents would know what to ask.

In another occassion, T Chang said student- applicants of DBS mostly come from Middle-class. He meant their HK Chinese parents are middle-class. What r middle-calss? doctors? Accountants? lawyers? businessman??

[honeybee]

T Chang, a Harvard graduate, once said to news reporter that US schools also poach athletes...it s a very common practice. I don't think so.

US high schools and universities rarely poach athletes. They recruit year-one athletes. Poaching schools often receive a lot of criticism.

Many Chinese claim they receive top-notch education in the US, the most advanced country in the world. Their GPA may be very high but they don't know things happened in their community, their state and in the US soil . because they spent most time in campus china-town: they speak chiense everyday, watch chinese movie tape everyday (now , it s chinese DVD and chinese websites).

[honeybee]

I met a HKU girl -stduent (Good Hope graduate) months ago. She said she wanted to date foreigner.....I met her again recently, she said she got an American bf and he likes chinese culture (any correlation between that).

This HK Chinese girl doesn't know a thing about China history, geog, politics, curretn affairs. If her American boyfriend is a researcher of HKU Asian Center, he would know Chinese culture better than this HK chinese girls does.

Many HK chinese girls claim they have international markets: they can date guys from UK, USA, Germany, Spain....But I wonder how they can keep a relationship with Whites? Their tastes (Hobby, Leisure pursuit, literacy preference) is no different from China Town people.

What abt HKU guys? well, they 'eat banana la'