Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School (PLKCKY) Hong Kong
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Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School is a school of great ambition. Well that is what it used to be. The school now has changed into something it sweared it never wanted to be, a machine like prison, forcing students through tireless work. I am a student of the senior secondary levels and observed how gruelling it can be in the Primary section. However IGCSE teachings in our school is incredible, even though there are a lot of training and after school sessions, the teachers really care about us and try their very best. But the quality of teachers in CKY is so inconsistent. We have a huge ratio between good and successful teachers with those who can barely teach a class. I don’t really want to name names, but one of them caused an entire class to not get a single A in IGCSE. Our school teachers have a bias towards female students, especially female Chinese teachers. Which I think is extremely unfair. Moreover, our facilities are a little aged, despite being quite a young school, our windows, bookcases and tables can be easily worn out. But overall, CKY is not some god tier school like many rumoured it to be, it’s a pretty average school that is facing massive change. It makes me really wonder, is it worth it to attend this school with the risk of having bad teachers? Quality of education is what’s most valued after all. Also on an unrelated note, our school implemented a better security system and fixed the basketball court, but there is a lot more facilities that needs maintenance. Basketballs and volleyballs are insufficient and also extremely old, which is unable to support those training in teams.

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As an ex-student who has studied up until igcse curriculum, i’d say this school is terrible.

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Very nice school I was there for 12 whole years and finally graduated. This school brings a lot of memories overall.

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It’s a great learning environment

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This school is a disgrace to Po Leung Kuk, all the nice and non sexists teachers leave while all the terrible teachers stay. The majority of the teachers that stays in the school are very sexists against boys and favours the girls especially a drama teacher named Salli Collins and an art teacher named Nelson Yee.They also have high school fees but they give terrible facilities, the computer in every classroom has terrible systems, the basketballs and volleyballs had grew mold and the pump for inflation doesn’t work at all and we have to bring our own pumps to pump the deflated balls. The carpets in the drama room are very easy to get a carpet burn for 3 years. The books in the library are mostly missing, lecture theatre’s chairs has stains and the air conditioners in the school are very loud and affecting lesson progression. There’s also a system called “Behaviour System” and it’s a terrible idea, firstly there was a geography teacher named Philip Chan, he gave lots of bad behaviour records just because he’s in a bad day. Secondly the behaviour records claims that it’s for reminding students and teachers but the system has actually given a chance for teachers to shame students publicly. Lastly every lunch company the school finds, there are cockroaches, ants even grasshoppers in the lunch and the quality is absolutely terrible. This school isn’t that good of a school but 1 good thing about this school is that there are not as much homework compared to other schools but there are an english quiz every 2-3 weeks and math quizzes every time after a unit. So the reason I’ve given one star is because it has different extra curriculums, also there are some nice teachers in the school and the environment is up to hygienic standards beside the school lunches.

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One of the best schools in the mountainous New Kowloon Area, bang for the buck, and has great teachers who can support advances in academics and provide valuable consultation. Very mysterious building as well as fun to explore.

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I am a student from y1-11 and I left this school last year. Honestly, life is acceptable in this school, there are quite a lot of kind and nice teachers who do care and properly teach students, ensuring that they are really well-equipped for the upcoming years and even further, the future society. Facilities are quite well preserved and maintained and academics of the school is sensational in some sense. However, despite the majority of good teachers, there are some that behave, teach, act unacceptably. Those teachers scold loudly and shout and students sometimes for their own mistakes: eg. Once there was a teacher who gave the wrong paper to a student, and then student kindly reminded the teacher, but what ends up is that the student gets shouted for “reminding” and gets forced out of the classroom. Tell me, how is that reasonable - it’s your own fault and you start blaming the student for his/her kindness? What society are we in? But ending up, there were a few nice teachers who settled the event and apologised to the student. The teacher him/herself also did apologies which turned out to be quite fair at last. Another event was when students presented their working progress to the teacher, the teacher started scolding the class on a whim. What was the reason? It was because the class was not too quite and didn’t continue their progress for their own project. What the hell? The class was even entitled to “not act like a proper student” when we were taught to be respectful: always listen to others attentively. These scenarios happened seldom, but every time shockingly. Not only that but there are a few teachers often abusing their power, and forcing students to do this and that if they merely “wanted to”. They give out behaviour records on a whim and every time when questioned, they give out a blase and seemingly innocent face. But those aside most teachers are friendly kind and willing to provide extra help to students. Most students are nice and friendly, sometimes joking around but serious when needed. To conclude cky is a great school, with great teaching concepts and great thoughts but the execution needs some work.

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The teachers are not able to teach well, teachers have BAD MANNERS, and only support rich families (families that can pay more to charities which I'm pretty sure they DON'T SEND THERE.) BADDDD

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It's cool, as far as I'm concerned there aren't any bullies here. The teachers are fine, the students are mostly respectful, and the curriculum here is very difficult compared to other schools

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I've been studying CKY for some years, and I'm glad I moved. I started in 2016 and left in 2021. There are definitely a lot more cons than pros. Firstly, the fees are extremely overpriced, when I first saw the fees for year 1-5, I was like WTF??? Seriously, you need to pay $7,500 hk dollars each month just to go to this school, and they call it a "Reasonable" price?? The fees keep increasing each year by a few thousand, and don't even get me started with the donations. They constantly force you to donate large amounts of money for "charity", I have no clue of what they are doing with that money, but I don't think it's an acceptable thing considering the fact that they force you to. Secondly, the students were extremely sexist, racist and overall toxic. I remember I did a project with 1 girl and 2 boys (4 person each group), the boys helped with the project, but they would tell the girls things such as "that's not good enough, I hate being with a girl." or "I would rather eat a cockroach than work with you two girls." It really damaged me, I never told anybody cause I was really shy. The students mostly came from rich families, most of them didn't really have much manners and liked to bully people in their classes. I also heard about a male student who supposedly physically attacked a student multiple times, the worst part is that the school only lectures him then lets him go, and has no intentions of expelling him even though lots of parents had complained to him. Lastly, the teachers. Most of them were fine, they were kind and always tried to make their students the happiest, but there were some who were the complete opposite. During year 3, I had a really strict art teacher, (I'm not gonna name any names here.) she would constantly blame students for random things, and yell at them for no reason at all. I remember I was painting, and forgot that I couldn't use black paint. I used it and then the art teacher walked up to check on my painting, she was furious. She then took my painting, raised it up high for the entire class to see, and then proceeded to shout, "Look at (my name)! Look what she's done! Do you still remember what you cannot use?" The class answered black paint, I was so embarrassed cause I wasn't done painting and it looked like a disaster. The art teacher then shouted "correct!" and threw my painting onto the ground, I was so sad and sobbed my whole day at school. I hated that art teacher, I never liked her, I despised her. She also did similar things to most students, and had high expectations, according to my best friend who is still studying at this school. For example, if you were bad at art, that art teacher would pick on you almost every single time you saw her, she doesn't even have the patience to teach so it makes it seem like she's only "teaching" for the salary.

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