Guinealover Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) Hi, We are an American family moving to Bangkok with kids in the school year of Grade 2 and Grade 4. Can anyone here kindly share their experience with the American School of Bangkok at Sukhumvit 49? Thanks. Edited March 19, 2011 by Guinealover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StfM Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 I'd like to hear opinions about the school as well. Considering sending my son there (kindergarten). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaatKIS Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I'd like to hear opinions about the school as well. Considering sending my son there (kindergarten). Hi, I work at KIS International School in Bangkok. I don't know much about the American School, but there is an article on the KIS website about choosing a school (moving to Bangkok section) which may help you with your research. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbradsby Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 I DO highly recommend ASB Bangna Campus. Talented & enthusiastic teachers, good curriculum, good work/fun quotient, supportive and attentive administration at the verdant ASB Bangna Campus - as well as a nice mix of expat and Thai kids, such that English is the de facto language of most of the kid population. This last bit is very important for an expat kid coming into Thailand since many 'international' schools here have literally no expat kids, so naturally only Thai is spoken by the kids unless in the classroom and the teachers enforce an English-only policy. And the learning environment is compromised since the vast majority of kids are second language learners so the core curriculum is compromised. IF your kid is a native English speaker, s/he will be bored, then eventually resentful, as the teaching environment is dumbed down. We had to quickly pull our son out of a big, fancy, brand new, Bangna-area 'internatl' school when we found out it had, other than our son, a 100% Thai student population - very different from the school's website projected during review before we moved here from the US. English was not spoken by students nor 95% of staff outside the classroom. We are half-Thai and love Thailand, but our child was extremely isolated in that school environment, lonely & getting demoralized. He was also correcting the teacher's spelling, to which she responded that spelling was not important & that was what computer Spell-Check apps were for... Seriously. So in the second week of school, we moved him to ASB. He is doing great, has a very talented & dedicated team of teachers, enjoys it & has developed some good friendships there from the get-go. All the Best, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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