Yes, and why learn it unless your going be immigrants (immigrants should 100% required learn Finnish)
Hey…Happy teachers = Happy students 
Does anyone know how their enrollment is going? I talked to many parents who were interested and attended those info meetings, but I still don’t know anyone actually sending their children to this school. They keep organizing these events, even though the school’s opening is in just two weeks…
Supposedly looking for 700k a year for high school , crazy. That’s twice very well established private schools in my home country.
It seems there are too many rich desperate people in Taiwan.
It is a bit much considering they are just leasing a classroom/s in a public school, and have zero history.
Don’t people normally justify high fees based on the facilities available at the school, and networks of established schools.
Yeah I’m blown away if somebody would pay that.
No history would be a concern, but I don’t know why I’d care if the facility leased vs owned. Also the facilities themselves, while a consideration in choosing schools, has never been a primary concern for us and has never been used to justify (nor seem to have much correlation with) prices.
A couple of class rooms and nothing else doesn’t seem like much value.
Paying a similar amount abroad would get top notch sporting facilities, a much larger school with a much larger school population and the opportunities that come from that for the children.
If academics is the concern, surely you would be ahead of game here choosing a public school coupled with tutoring and still have some change.
Presumably the teaching / teachers / curriculum are what people would be paying for vs the classrooms. 
Varies widely. I’ve paid more for that for private schools with zero sport facilities and (purposely) much smaller school population. Some things you see as a detriment others might see as a benefit.
Somehow I don’t think so, in many places public schools perform better, but parents choose well resourced private schools that underperform by comparison.
This conversation has been had previously in another thread - it’s not always about test scores (what people usually mean when they talk performance). We’re in a high performing school district but have specifically chosen a private school for the teaching / teachers / curriculum, and it has nothing to do with traditional measures of performance; it’s a bit of a laugh with the other parents at the school - we paid more to be in high performing districts, then pay out the wazoo to not be in the schools in said districts so our children have a more play based, holistic approach to learning that eschews traditional metrics (especially in early years).
Did they end up getting any students? They kept organizing those recruitments for month until s few days before the school’s inauguration, and the french school fees are much more affordable than theirs.
It’s not that bad. According to their FB, they have their own building within the parent school, with its own entrance. Also on FB they show a sports field and swimming pool, so presumably they have access to those.
Like everyone else, I’m unsure why the fees are so high. Non-English international schools, such as the Japanese school in Taipei and Korean school in Taichung, are very affordable. But as soon as English is involved, they whack up the fees.
Pretty sure that swiming pool is the community sports centre nextdoor to the public school.
Sure. But that still means they have access to a pool; that’s better than many schools.
Those pools are nextdoor to many public schools.
Just had a look at the facebook page… the photos appear to be of the one double height room, with the tables rearranged for each photo.
If that is the room they have, I guess if it’s on the ground floor they can say they have their own access… but do they really have the whole building?
“The school opened with more than 20 students from countries including the United States, Australia and Japan, ranging from first through seventh grade”
Yeah, i read they had over 150 interviews/meetings, but only 22 students from grades 1 to 7 so like 3 students per grade…and still no clear the IB/Finland school methodology thing, it can’t be both…