Thursday, August 24, 2006

Back to school

Today is the start of the Autumn term.

Comment: The ESF seem to have pushed through this early start with minimum consultation. Parents who have got used to having the whole of August as holiday are not happy, and teachers are upset as well.

ESF management say that this change was made because parents wanted it, and they were worried that extending the Summer Term into July (which is the main alternative) would lead to mass absenteeism.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Welcome

I have created this blog for discussion about the ESF. I was commenting on the forum on the ESF website, but then they closed it down, so here I am.

I am an ESF parent (my son is in P4 at Sha Tin Junior) and also a member of the PTA committee at SJS. The views expressed here are entirely my own, of course.

Please accept my apologies if it all looks a bit of a mess, but I'm still learning how to do this. My only consolation is that it can't possibly be any worse than the ESF website.

Update (28/10/06): the ESF website has now been improved.