本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛I have a very young child who is far away from middle school. I say St.Andrew
for a few reasons:
Although the school is located in a rich community, but it does not necessarily
mean the majority of the kids in the school are from rich family.
In fact, there are quite some rental buildings (the ones right at Yonge/401, and the ones at Bayview/401, for example) in the area, comparing to other schools (let’s say Denlow PS, windfield Middle School) in C12 area. There are also a big condo townhouse complex in the area at yonge/401.
If you are on the bus along York Mills road, you can see quite some kids go to the schools in St.Andrew area from the apartments at York Mills/Leslie. Bet their parents are more or less like you, doing their best send the kids to the good schools.
Considering all these factors, you can calculate what could be the percentage of population from a single detached rich household in this area.
I think it is a good exposure to the kids in the environment like this. They definitely will know first hand that there are so many different ways of living in this world and hopefully they get comfortable on what ever they have, or motivated to pursue whatever they want to have.
I did not visit St.Andrew myself but did visit quite a few public elementary schools in north york area, including Pineway PS (in the same area of Zion Heigh) and Owen PS in the same area of St.Andrew. There are some dark skin kids in the owen school too which I think may not be a bad thing.
I could not know how the school really is from these visiting, but from what I saw and felt, Owen is at the edge from almost all the perspectives: school facility, kids behavior, .. Although Pineway PS is one of the top schools in the Provincial test ranking.
St.Andrew itself is a very well known school not only because of academic result. In a society like Toronto, Academic only speaks so much. There are many many other aspects influences an individuals success, like, personal mastery skills, social skills, society involvement, culture exposure, leadership, individual hobbies and talents, physical skills (especially for boys) .. and I think this is sometimes be largely neglected by parents in our Chinese community.
One more factor, the high school in St.Andrew area is one of the best high schools, which is York Mills CI.
I don’t know what are the things you consider important to you and your kids while choosing a school. Maybe you can go visit the school with your kid, talk to the school staff and then you can have a more clear picture.
Any way, good luck and all the best!更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
for a few reasons:
Although the school is located in a rich community, but it does not necessarily
mean the majority of the kids in the school are from rich family.
In fact, there are quite some rental buildings (the ones right at Yonge/401, and the ones at Bayview/401, for example) in the area, comparing to other schools (let’s say Denlow PS, windfield Middle School) in C12 area. There are also a big condo townhouse complex in the area at yonge/401.
If you are on the bus along York Mills road, you can see quite some kids go to the schools in St.Andrew area from the apartments at York Mills/Leslie. Bet their parents are more or less like you, doing their best send the kids to the good schools.
Considering all these factors, you can calculate what could be the percentage of population from a single detached rich household in this area.
I think it is a good exposure to the kids in the environment like this. They definitely will know first hand that there are so many different ways of living in this world and hopefully they get comfortable on what ever they have, or motivated to pursue whatever they want to have.
I did not visit St.Andrew myself but did visit quite a few public elementary schools in north york area, including Pineway PS (in the same area of Zion Heigh) and Owen PS in the same area of St.Andrew. There are some dark skin kids in the owen school too which I think may not be a bad thing.
I could not know how the school really is from these visiting, but from what I saw and felt, Owen is at the edge from almost all the perspectives: school facility, kids behavior, .. Although Pineway PS is one of the top schools in the Provincial test ranking.
St.Andrew itself is a very well known school not only because of academic result. In a society like Toronto, Academic only speaks so much. There are many many other aspects influences an individuals success, like, personal mastery skills, social skills, society involvement, culture exposure, leadership, individual hobbies and talents, physical skills (especially for boys) .. and I think this is sometimes be largely neglected by parents in our Chinese community.
One more factor, the high school in St.Andrew area is one of the best high schools, which is York Mills CI.
I don’t know what are the things you consider important to you and your kids while choosing a school. Maybe you can go visit the school with your kid, talk to the school staff and then you can have a more clear picture.
Any way, good luck and all the best!更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net