Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School (PLKCKY) Hong Kong
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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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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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I would say that my experience while in primary was honestly quite good. Most teachers i had during primary seemed to actually enjoy teaching us and tried to get us to learn. However as soon as i got to secondary it just got increasingly bad. The attitudes of secondary teachers were complete opposite of the primary teachers. It really looked as if they were only staying for the salary. They didn’t want to teach at all and would either tell us to do group work, research on our own or put a video up for us to watch. There are also school counsellors which I found annoying. I definitely lacked in grades in some subjects so they appointed me to the counsellor (they seem to only do so for people who had bad grades not actually people who are struggling mentally) I left after completing year 9 so i do not have much to say about IGCSE or IB. However i do know that the amount of stress teachers put on students is real, a lot of my friends seemed to have gotten tired of life for the lack of word, the period of time when there was tests. Even though the school claims it takes the liking of students seriously it really doesn’t, a lot of the times when students ask about things that are not in the curriculum but they would like to know about teachers would just respond with “oh you wouldn’t under anyways” or “you don’t have to know that, it’s not on the curriculum. Don’t get me wrong there are still a couple of good teachers, it really just depends on your luck. Teachers in this school tend to get mad for the littlest things and would take out their anger out on us, some of them would even just leave the classroom in rage. A lot of students in this school come from rather well off family (i’m not gonna lie and say i’m poor whatsoever but compared to the other students it really seemed like i was), a lot of them were spoiled and loved showing off whatever expensive items they owned or just being rude jerks that believed they owned everything. It was not at all a good environment for learning. The facilities however was alright, the library was huge and is a really great place for some quiet self studying, the range of books available was also amazing. However the wifi is just horrible to say the least, you cannot connect to the wifi in most classrooms and so much lesson time was wasted on trying to make the computer work. To parents considering this school now, even though my primary experience was decent still do reconsider, i have noticed that a lot of great teachers i had in primary has left while walking around the primary section. I have also heard that the new teachers are not the best at teacher (however i would give it the benefit of the doubt as they might just be teaching for the first time and needs some time to learn) i really do hope the school improves as i have spent 9 years of my life there and do have some emotions attached to it no matter what, i’m thankful for the good teachers who really made my life in the school so much brighter.

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I have been in this school for 12 years and have seen its good and bad parts. I personally have not had a very enjoyable experience at this school, but I will do this review with both positive and negative aspects of the school in mind. Facilities: + Very large auditorium, looks extremely professional. + A lot of different rooms for different purposes. + Nice library, good environment for study. - Money is spent on 4k televisions that no one even watches, instead of fixing facilities that actually need to be repaired. - Smart boards are broken and teachers spend a very long time trying to fix the projectors. - Swimming pool area in general (including changing room) is unhygenic. - Not enough classrooms -- I spent the entirety of year 11 and 12 feeling very lost, as I didn't have a set place to go to during breaks. - Door handles and other classroom facilities often broken. Overall I would say the school heavily focuses on some facilities but not others. Teachers: + Some teachers are very good at teaching. Made me very interested in their subject. They genuinely want to help the students succeed in their public exams and give very good advice. + Teachers will (sometimes) try to resolve conflicts between students. - I'm not going to generalize and say all teachers do this. However some teachers are extremely biased against students they don't like, and their friends in association. Several students were being picked on by the "popular" people in their class, but the teacher did nothing about it because they favored the "popular kids". Another incident was that a few underage girls were being catcalled during a study tour by an old man when they were on a toilet break. They were therefore late to the rendezvous because of it. When they told the teacher of their incident, the teacher shrugged it off and instead scolded them for their tardiness, saying that it wasn't an excuse. - I have witnessed a teacher insult a student because the student's abilities were worse than everybody else's, instead of teach them how to do it right. - Some teachers are not very good at teaching the course material, forcing students to resort to self study to pass their public exams. - A lot of good teachers are leaving. As a student I am not 100% sure if this is correct but I've heard that some teachers receive a much lower pay than others, which explains the high turnover rate. Overall, I enjoyed most of my education here. I had some very good teachers who inspired me to do well in their subject. Fortunately, I myself have not been on the receiving end of some teachers' unjust behaviour. However, the treatment that some students go through need to be acknowledged. Academics: + World classroom program is fun and unique. + Primary education was very enjoyable and developed my interest in reading. However I would say that the school's image of being a "reading-based school" only lasts for primary school. Secondary school becomes much more traditional. + I've seen a review say that it's stressful to force students to do a large amount of subjects in their middle school years. While I think the school could do something to take the stress off students, it's still useful for students to be exploring their interests in different subjects and finding out what they like best. - This was the case during my time at the school, but I've heard that they have since changed the policy. The school used to force everyone to do Chinese A in IB, unless their Chinese abilities are indeed very mediocre. I was not good at Chinese, yet I found myself forced to do a subject I was neither interested in nor good at. As a result I struggled more than most to get a good grade. If the school would just offer foreign language courses, it would be much more beneficial for students, as they would be doing a subject they actually like, and would get a 7 more easily. After all, every student is good at SOMETHING, and that something may not always be Chinese. I have heard that they changed it this year so students can do ab initio courses, which is good. - As I said, "reading-based" education only lasted for primary school. No one really cared in secondary, and if you read a lot you would get mocked by the students. I generally liked my education here, although I did find it very stressful. It definitely taught me to persevere, but honestly I could have gone to another school with a foreign language program (ab initio) and get a better grade, as IB itself with all the workload is already stressful enough. Music & Arts: + Band conductors are very nice. + School encourages students to learn an instrument, and really developed my passion in music. + There are many opportunities for you to get involved in bands/orchestras/choir. - The school does an annual musical play. The play itself is good but it's clear that the teachers are biased towards the popular people when casting the play. From what I've heard, someone who was actually very talented never got chosen because they weren't as popular, so she eventually gave up on trying to join. - Quality of the school music teams aren't very good. They seem like they've won a lot of prizes but it's because the school enters them into junior level competitions. - School refused to start an IB drama class, even though a teacher worked very hard on trying to make it happen. - Bands/orchestras/choirs can get very cliquey. There are a lot of opportunities to join bands, but if your child wants to join the musical it would be difficult for them. I was very tired of seeing the same people get picked for events like this over and over. I will not go into the sports and science/technology sections as much because I myself am not familiar with them. I will instead, go into the social aspect of the school, as that was what made me dislike it the most. Social life: - Gets very cliquey in middle school. Of course, it's bound to happen in other schools, but the cliques and drama were very toxic and mentally draining. - Many students have been depressed/suicidal and the school never really does much about it. There was a social worker who came into our classrooms and taught us stuff about happiness after an IB student killed herself a few years ago, but that was about it. There is the SGO (social guidance office) but according to previous reviews it does not seem like they do their job very well. Additionally, students mock you if you go to the SGO or show any sign of weakness. - The school doesn't do much against bullying. There have been several incidents where someone has gotten bullied and the school and its teachers have overlooked it, or failed to discipline the bully. - I often felt like I couldn't be myself in the school. Every move I made, I felt like I was being judged, and I wasn't really able to find myself because I was so concerned about what others thought of me. - It's hard to make new friends. In an environment where students have known each other for years, many don't want to make new friends anymore. This makes it very hard for insert students and "loners" to make friends, because no one wants to include someone new. - Students make very offensive jokes and statements, such as jokes about sexual assault and casually throwing around the N-word. Although this could happen in any school, I believe this school should do a better job educating their students on this matter. Social life was the worst aspect of this school for me. After graduating, my mental health has gotten a lot better as I was no longer stuck in a toxic, judgemental environment. I think that more talks and lessons should be given on topics such as bullying, racism and sexism, especially in light of recent events, so that students learn to behave properly. I will say that the education itself in this school is decent, and although there are some biased teachers, there are ultimately teachers who care about you and want you to succeed. However my experience with social life in school has not been very good. It took me a long time to realize how emotionally damaged this school has made me, and even longer for me to work on my mental health, which is something that I feel like the school has hardly acknowledged. I hope I have provided an all-round review for this school.

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