uncanny
21 May 2008
Life / Secondary school choices in Poland [11]
Hi. I'm new to the forum (I just introduced myself in the "introductions" section). My family will be spending ten months in Wroclaw, beginning this September. I have a thousand questions about Polish life, and your forum has already helped answer many of them--so, first off, thank you very much. Or, rather, "Dziękuję bardzo." (Slowly, arduously, I am working to learn this formidable language, which is beautiful but which seems to include sounds I've never, even accidentally, made before!)
My question for today has to do with my fifteen-year-old daughter, who is just finishing the ninth grade here in the US. Can someone advise me about her schooling options for the fall? The British International School sounds good, but it costs 45,000 PLN per year. What other choices do I have? Can I send her to a Polish public school--and, if so, would this be a disaster because she doesn't speak much Polish (yet) at all? Are there other schools, taught mainly in English? I don't want to home-school her (teach her at home), because I want her to be out in the community and making friends and learning new perspectives.
Thanks a lot--dziękuję bardzo--for whatever advice you all can offer.
Uncanny
Hi. I'm new to the forum (I just introduced myself in the "introductions" section). My family will be spending ten months in Wroclaw, beginning this September. I have a thousand questions about Polish life, and your forum has already helped answer many of them--so, first off, thank you very much. Or, rather, "Dziękuję bardzo." (Slowly, arduously, I am working to learn this formidable language, which is beautiful but which seems to include sounds I've never, even accidentally, made before!)
My question for today has to do with my fifteen-year-old daughter, who is just finishing the ninth grade here in the US. Can someone advise me about her schooling options for the fall? The British International School sounds good, but it costs 45,000 PLN per year. What other choices do I have? Can I send her to a Polish public school--and, if so, would this be a disaster because she doesn't speak much Polish (yet) at all? Are there other schools, taught mainly in English? I don't want to home-school her (teach her at home), because I want her to be out in the community and making friends and learning new perspectives.
Thanks a lot--dziękuję bardzo--for whatever advice you all can offer.
Uncanny