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by Agios Amvrosios » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:43 am
Don't send the kids to Lykeon Paralimnion unless you want them to become greek gangsta rappers.
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by bacardi » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:18 pm
Hi Maxine
School fees arent cheap here in Cyprus, should you choose to send the kids to a private English school. If the kids were younger then I would perhaps advise you to at least try a state school but the older they get, the more difficult it is for the kids to adjust. You could always enrol them into a state school and see if they adapt before you splash out on the fees for the private one but my son was 10 when we moved here and I knew he wouldnt fit in a local school so he goes to a private one in Paphos. All kids are different but for me it was the right decision. Do your homework carefully before moving here and my advice would be to rent for a while before you commit to buy. Holidays and living here are not the same. Please dont think I am being negative as I had lots of advice before coming, both good and bad and you cannot let anybody make your mind up for you.
I wouldnt go back to the Uk unless I really really really had to but I cant say its been easy.
I wish you the best of luck and hope you enjoy the sunshine.
School fees arent cheap here in Cyprus, should you choose to send the kids to a private English school. If the kids were younger then I would perhaps advise you to at least try a state school but the older they get, the more difficult it is for the kids to adjust. You could always enrol them into a state school and see if they adapt before you splash out on the fees for the private one but my son was 10 when we moved here and I knew he wouldnt fit in a local school so he goes to a private one in Paphos. All kids are different but for me it was the right decision. Do your homework carefully before moving here and my advice would be to rent for a while before you commit to buy. Holidays and living here are not the same. Please dont think I am being negative as I had lots of advice before coming, both good and bad and you cannot let anybody make your mind up for you.
I wouldnt go back to the Uk unless I really really really had to but I cant say its been easy.
I wish you the best of luck and hope you enjoy the sunshine.
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by Mikros » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:47 pm
Pumpernickle, you are either working in the two schools you mentioned or you have something else in mind!
1. Before getting employed, all teachers get a one year lessons period where they are taught many aspects of teaching.
2. You will loose your bet on the english speaking, because a lot of teachers speak english, especially the younger generation!
4. The teachers who get employed to these schools are taken from a list which is sizeable (consists of a large backlog of waiting private school teachers and other applicants all of greek cypriot origin.)
-- This is true, but nobody prevents any foreign teacher to apply IF he/she speaks greek as well! (For gods' sake you are leaving in a greek-speaking country not in an english one!!!!)
5. being a state school teacher means you double your earning potential (around a thousand a month min plus)
Wrong salary....
b) it is impossibe to get sacked. IM POS SIB LE. TO lose your job. Even murder and arson would not get a teacher fired. Dont be sure, I know a few cases that teachers were fired!
c) there are ZERO standards in state schools, no league table, so team of inspectors from the government , nothing.
---- There are inspectors from the government, and they visit the schools. It depends what do you mean standards.
d) Teachers are pretty much not expetced to teach. Anything. At all. They baby sit. Give students some paper, and let them get on with it. There is no culture of excellence or academic achievement, its a joke.-
-- In one way it is wrong. If the inspector does not give you good marks, you will loose points and your promotion to an assistant headmaster is postponed.
e) Discipline is a joke, and there is no differentiation in the classroom, so expect your child to experience hell if he or she goes to a state school.
---It is more or less how the normal life is, ie sh..., where each one wants to eat the other!
1. Before getting employed, all teachers get a one year lessons period where they are taught many aspects of teaching.
2. You will loose your bet on the english speaking, because a lot of teachers speak english, especially the younger generation!
4. The teachers who get employed to these schools are taken from a list which is sizeable (consists of a large backlog of waiting private school teachers and other applicants all of greek cypriot origin.)
-- This is true, but nobody prevents any foreign teacher to apply IF he/she speaks greek as well! (For gods' sake you are leaving in a greek-speaking country not in an english one!!!!)
5. being a state school teacher means you double your earning potential (around a thousand a month min plus)
Wrong salary....
b) it is impossibe to get sacked. IM POS SIB LE. TO lose your job. Even murder and arson would not get a teacher fired. Dont be sure, I know a few cases that teachers were fired!
c) there are ZERO standards in state schools, no league table, so team of inspectors from the government , nothing.
---- There are inspectors from the government, and they visit the schools. It depends what do you mean standards.
d) Teachers are pretty much not expetced to teach. Anything. At all. They baby sit. Give students some paper, and let them get on with it. There is no culture of excellence or academic achievement, its a joke.-
-- In one way it is wrong. If the inspector does not give you good marks, you will loose points and your promotion to an assistant headmaster is postponed.
e) Discipline is a joke, and there is no differentiation in the classroom, so expect your child to experience hell if he or she goes to a state school.
---It is more or less how the normal life is, ie sh..., where each one wants to eat the other!
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by pumpernickle » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:37 pm
Mikros, no offence old buddy, but are you a teacher, because if so, your grammar, spelling and punctuation is a bit rubbish. Sorry.
Maxine - listen to good advice here, and trust me, I am a good source. Don't go down the state school route. Your kids will blatantly feel isolated and shunned. No-one will have a good command of the english language, the pressure for your kids to learn greek quickly may become stressful, and it's not worth the hassle.
Go private.
Maxine - listen to good advice here, and trust me, I am a good source. Don't go down the state school route. Your kids will blatantly feel isolated and shunned. No-one will have a good command of the english language, the pressure for your kids to learn greek quickly may become stressful, and it's not worth the hassle.
Go private.
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by Mikros » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:12 am
Nah, I'm not a teacher and I don't plan to be... I'm a career person, I cannot work in the same way that the public sectors' employees work, but anyhow I don't give a damn who agrees with my grammar or punctuation or whatever. Are YOU a teacher pumpernickle? The importance is the truth mate. How do I know these answers? My father was a teacher and two other friends of mine are currently teachers!
It all depends on the age of the kids actually and how well they want to be involved in the local culture or not. My sisters' kids attend a public school (primary education) and there are quite a few non-cypriot kids in the same classroom as my sister's kids and they had never any problems as I have been told by their teachers. Otherwise the kids should attend a private english school. But don't blame the teachers for some problems that are created due to the parents' ignorance!
My 2c worth
It all depends on the age of the kids actually and how well they want to be involved in the local culture or not. My sisters' kids attend a public school (primary education) and there are quite a few non-cypriot kids in the same classroom as my sister's kids and they had never any problems as I have been told by their teachers. Otherwise the kids should attend a private english school. But don't blame the teachers for some problems that are created due to the parents' ignorance!
My 2c worth
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