It is a well-know truth that Hong Kong’s international schools have long been filled with local Chinese students since the Hong Kong handover from Britain to China in 1997. A flock of skittish and scared parents carrying their beloved children fled from the Hong Kong government’s patriotic educational policy which changed most of the EMI (English as the medium of instruction) school to CMI (Chinese as the medium of instruction), despite the much higher tuition. Most international schools see half of their yearly intake consist of local Chinese students, and lamentably, sometimes at the highest end of the spectrum, an overwhelming 2 out of 3 are local Chinese students.
As ordinary consumers, can parents write in to Consumer Council to complain about these so-called “international” schools? The major point is that these parents are the people who would pay triple the fare for a first-class cabin to London because they are expecting beef tenderloin with goose liver, caviar, prestigiously fine Bordeaux and a relaxing conversation about recent stock market performance with a white-collar seated next to them who probably was on the cover of the March issue of a CEO magazine. Not surprisingly, they do not expect a throng of housewives who have just stopped gossiping about where to buy the fake LV handbags and fall asleep belching after a boisterous chicken feet feast. That is not the value of money.
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