Last time, I wrote an article "I decided to let my child give up the college entrance examination" (click on the title to view), but I didn't expect the comment area to blow up, and there were hundreds of comments. It's a pity that you can only put a maximum of 100 pieces out. Some don't understand, some think I chose the wrong one, and more parents want to know what is different from international high schools. In today's article, I will answer the question of high appearances. The first is the cost. As far as Wuhan is concerned, the fees of international schools that I know are about 10-300,000 yuan. The cost of Dabao's school is about 100,000 yuan a year. I won't say the specific name of the school, otherwise it will be inconvenient for me to write, and I will also protect Dabao's privacy a little. In addition to the normal tuition fees, the school will also organize some activities every year, such as study tours to the United Kingdom, or trekking in the desert, which cost about 50,000 yuan per activity. However, you can choose not to participate. Dabao said that their classmates are very sober, and everyone will participate in activities that are helpful for further education, and almost no one participates in activities that are not helpful for further education. Usually buy snacks or something, everyone is also very good at saving money, and if you can spend less, you will not spend a penny. Some people use Chanel's bag as a garbage bag, but when they buy a bowl of instant noodles, they have to complain that it is too expensive, and that the school cheats people. Every time Dabao talks about their classmates, I feel that the door to a new world has been opened. When I urge Dabao to write an article to share, and when the time comes, it will be posted on the life account, she has recently made money to watch the comic exhibition, and her enthusiasm for writing is still very high. 
Moving on to the cost. In addition to tuition fees and the cost of attending events, there are various exams to take. The international high school exam is different from the general high school, we are the college entrance examination to determine life and death, they can take the test many times, and the highest score shall prevail. For example, if you want to get an A in math, as long as you don't meet the standard, you can keep taking the test. But for each exam, you have to pay about 2,000 yuan, and you have about one or two chances to take the exam every year. For various festivals, it is necessary to buy gifts in large quantities. For example, this past Christmas, the school asked each student to buy a lot of Christmas gifts, and then everyone exchanged them. Of course, the students did not like this kind of activity, and complained that it was too expensive, and they resolutely did not buy 50 gifts that could buy 30. After the event, everyone received a lot of useless gifts. In addition, it is the usual living expenses, and the meals in the school cafeteria range from a few to dozens of yuan, and students can choose by themselves. Basically, these expenses are all that you can't save except for tuition and exam fees, and you can save everything else you want. The cost of living is negligible in any school. 
2. Let's talk about the difference in learning content. In addition to what has been mentioned earlier, the exam is different. The biggest difference, and the biggest test for children, is that all international high schools are taught in English. The teacher speaks English, the textbook is in English, and the test papers are also in English. In terms of knowledge difficulty, it is not as deep and difficult as the general high school, so after Dabao transferred to another school, he won the first place in the first exam. As long as the English is passed, it feels a bit of a dimensionality reduction blow. Therefore, Pugao is really good at exercising people, and the children who come out of Pugao are much more powerful in mastering knowledge. Moreover, when Dabao was in the key class when he was in general high school, he was often in the top few, and he had a good foundation in many subjects. Now transferred to an international high school, facing all-English teaching, Dabao couldn't understand English at all at first, which is why he started to study in the second year of high school after transferring. One is worried that she will not be able to keep up with her English, and the other is that she is afraid that she will not have enough time to get a high score because of the lack of time for the exam. But for the past two months, I have been reading every day, as long as the books are all in English, and the teacher speaks English, in such an environment, the progress is very fast. Now that she is used to it, she has no pressure to get the English test paper. There are some things, I am afraid to watch them every day and learn them every day, and I will watch them hundreds of times, and I will know no matter what. Of course, in order to keep up with his English, Dabao not only studied in school, but also enrolled in English classes to prepare for the TOEFL exam. After the transfer, Dabao is visibly getting better and better, and he is adapting well. Of course, not every child can adapt to it, and I don't dare to let her go to Erbao, and I'll talk about it in detail when I write about the pit of international high schools later. 
3. Another issue that everyone is particularly concerned about is that you can't study well in general high school, you can't go to a good university, and you can't go to a good university in an international high school, right? If you go to an ordinary school and study a general major, you will not be competitive in the future, whether you return to China or abroad. This can't be helped, it's a problem of the whole environment. Even if you don't go abroad, it's the same if you go to a university in China, who can guarantee that your child will be more competitive if you go to college? Academic qualifications are already depreciating, both domestic and foreign. Therefore, choosing to study abroad is only a choice, and you can't expect to soar after reading. As I said in the previous article, Dabao wants to go abroad, and I also hope that she will see more of the world and experience more when she is young, and it would be better if she could have the ability to survive anywhere in the world. So this question is really a matter of opinion, no matter how you choose, no matter how you choose, it may be wrong. It can only be said that everyone makes decisions based on their own family situation and the situation of their children. As for not being able to get into a good school in China, can you get into a good school abroad? Not necessarily. We transferred Dabao because she couldn't get into a school in China, and it was easier to take the international exam. Many schools will be open to both college entrance examination students and international students, but the conditions are completely different. We still hope that Dabao will be admitted to a good school, she also has her own goals, and choosing an international high school will indeed have a better chance of winning at present. 
Some people also asked, isn't it an escape if you don't study well in general high school and transfer schools when you feel stressed? If you can't even overcome this difficulty, how can you live well in the future? As one reader said, aren't we tired and tired of learning at the beginning? Didn't you get admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University? Why do you have to think that if your child can't pass the exam, it's not good, it's not hardworking? If you think about it with this thinking, then no matter how tired you are, don't jump ship, you can't even overcome this pressure and difficulty, how can it be good in the future! The luckiest thing in life is not to have a choice? Isn't it just that if you find that one path is not suitable, you can change it again? 
Some parents can't bear any hardship themselves, but they are particularly keen to let their children suffer hardship, and they must also suffer what you think is right, which is why so many children are depressed. The child does not fail to work hard, and sometimes he may just want to change his choice and suffer on another level. Of course, there is never a right answer to these things, and you can only do it as you please. ** on the Internet.