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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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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primary is generally enjoyable with some bad eggs in the batch, but it strengthened my base in learning and was overall fun and relaxing. they seemed to genuinely care for students. however, in secondary, the teachers are increasingly terrible, blaming students for not reminding them to go to lessons when they forgot and do not even apologise for being late (commonly Chinese teachers, other subjects are usually less brutal). there isn't that many tests or quizzes, but they always make all the tests happen in the same week, which makes it extremely stressful to study 5 tests at the same time. some teachers are really passionate about their jobs, generally enjoying teaching, but some are lazy and seem to only be there for the salary, lazily teaching the curriculum with the littlest amount of effort at all. they also always scold students for absolutely no reason, which is unnecessarily especially when they don't know the answer. one particular teacher is braggy, telling us about how successful they are and how we have accomplished nothing as 10-18-year-olds... the facilities are pretty good, the swimming pool area is always not going to be the cleanest but it is not an extremely prominent issue. I'm not writing this to bash on the school, unlike some reviews here, but there are definitely some general problems of secondary that needed to be taken care of.

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I’ll admit that this is a school that is quite good, but it has many bad points. Firstly, the school has good facilities but students are not allowed to use half of them, such as the lifts. Secondly, the school fee is extremely overpriced. Even through PLKCKY offers IB and IGCSE subjects and courses, the teaching and learning environment is not worth the 5 digits parents have to pay every month. Especially in COVID, students do nothing in online classes, some teachers go as far as to let the students play games in class without caring about their learning. Additionally, students are constantly pressured to do well in class despite the school’s pathetic marketing of viewing attitude to be more important than grades, which is a complete lie as students’ average scores are compared through the whole grade, causing students lower than the average grade to feel depressed and extremely pressured. The student guidance is also a complete lie, teachers do not give a damn about the students mental health, pushing students (especially secondary students) to excel in every subject when the true reason why students get good grades is because of talent or tutor classes . The worst part is the school’s constantly forcing the students to spend money on the ‘charity’ activities, in which no one knows where the large sums of money has went (each student should pay at least 100 for every charity activity, so a considerable amount should be raised in the whole school) the only major recent renovation was the library and smart boards (although half of the smart boards are slow and have problems). The WiFi is also useless, I remember a few years ago when writing our Y5 Essay, our class had to walk around the halls and holding up our chrome books to the WiFi routers in the cold winter. The janitors also have bad attitude, such as refusing to help students replace curtains despite the curtains being badly broken. I could go on all day about the negatives of CKY, but with that being said, it does have some good points such as the library’s excellent variety of books and the spacious classrooms.

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I don't hate it enough to leave but I also wouldn't go around telling people to come here.

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