International Schools in Chiang Mai

[laolover88]

We moved our daughter out of Varee as it was just a Thai school. at a price.She was better off. in the local village school where there were no "Chelsea Cruiser" parents. Actually as everywhere in LOS there were no parents. We moved our daughter out of Panyaden as the teachers/administration were totally incompetent. I think the so called "Science" teacher boasted he had a degree from some Bible College and Neil the Head was a whizz on refugees but we were not.

Christian Canadian Americans with little clue about anything. Other parents moved their children to the Asia=Pacific. The Panyaden staff were looking at Lanna for their children. Lanna is somewhere in 1960.

Drugs are a very big problem at Prem. There is nothing in Thailand let alone Chiang Mai that compares with Singapore. Dara and Montfort are basically your choices but they are both huge and aggressively Thai. You have to accept that schools in Thailand are lousy and if international expensive. English Programs are taught by Phillippinos and Cameroonians annd are a complete waste of time and money at 20000 Baht a term. Sorry to be depressing, but based on experience!!

I would suggest that, if you cannot prove a drug problem currently at Prem, you are making a defamatory statement. I recall an issue around ten years ago. No mention on this thread of NIS. How does that rate?

Oh you "recall an issue?" Talk to some Thais. We are European. We don't do defamation

I see Prem are dealing with it . Defamation of other IB and boarding schools.

https://ptis.ac.th/news/2016-04-prem-drugs-awareness-week

Edited April 19, 2016 by laolover88

[mcm991]

We moved our daughter out of Varee as it was just a Thai school. at a price.She was better off. in the local village school where there were no "Chelsea Cruiser" parents. Actually as everywhere in LOS there were no parents. We moved our daughter out of Panyaden as the teachers/administration were totally incompetent. I think the so called "Science" teacher boasted he had a degree from some Bible College and Neil the Head was a whizz on refugees but we were not.

Christian Canadian Americans with little clue about anything. Other parents moved their children to the Asia=Pacific. The Panyaden staff were looking at Lanna for their children. Lanna is somewhere in 1960.

Drugs are a very big problem at Prem. There is nothing in Thailand let alone Chiang Mai that compares with Singapore. Dara and Montfort are basically your choices but they are both huge and aggressively Thai. You have to accept that schools in Thailand are lousy and if international expensive. English Programs are taught by Phillippinos and Cameroonians annd are a complete waste of time and money at 20000 Baht a term. Sorry to be depressing, but based on experience!!

I would suggest that, if you cannot prove a drug problem currently at Prem, you are making a defamatory statement. I recall an issue around ten years ago. No mention on this thread of NIS. How does that rate?

Oh you "recall an issue?" Talk to some Thais. We are European. We don't do defamation

I see Prem are dealing with it . Defamation of other IB and boarding schools.

https://ptis.ac.th/news/2016-04-prem-drugs-awareness-week

You stated in your post and I quote ..... 'Drugs are a very big problem at Prem.'

Please elaborate ........ unless you made it up. It is a big statement and I think it warrants details or an explanation from you as to why you believe or know this to be the case.

Thanks.

[dunrudin]

There is a significant difference between expressing an opinion of the efficacy of a particular school's effectiveness, and asserting contravention of the law. Yes, I recall, as in, remember discussion, about a drug issue at Prem a long time ago. Implicit in my comment was a query as to whether the issue was still current or just the rantings of some disaffected misfit who would, in all probability be unhappy anywhere.

[PFV]

I have 2 kids at PTIS/Prem.

There still is somewhat of a drug problem centered around a group of ultra-hiso boarding kids from a nearby kingdom. At least one of them was recently expelled, and the school is taking the matter at heart, as it should.

Otherwise, over the years I have had our kids go to Varee, APIS, Montfort EP, and PTIS; friends' kids have gone to CMIS, Varee, and Lanna.

IMHO, PTIS is worth the extra money due to the quality of the teaching staff and the academic results they have achieved as of late, not to mention that all kids get to try out for the full IB diploma (at most large IB schools, only the brightest get in).

That said, if the intended college destination is in the US, perhaps a school such as CMIS is a better choice, since the IB diploma is very tough, and you need to score almost 7 out of 7 in all 6 subjects to get into an Ivy League school.