<p>Why would we want to emmulate a country’s school system that its own citizens are trying to escape from. My kids’ int’l school was full of SKorean kids.</p>
<p>The demographics of international schools change between primary school & secondary school. The primary schools are full of kids w parents on foreign posting, who generally send kids back to complete secondary school in the home country. The secondary schools, OTOH, are full of SKoreans who send their kids out of the home country to escape secondary school & the hagwan culture in SKorea.</p>
<p>While kids of other nationalities were overseas because they were accompanying their parents on a foreign work assignment, the SKorean kids were there for the explicit purpose of NOT attending school in their home country. </p>
<p>Nearly all SKorean kids had father living/working in SKorea, while mother accompanied child in foreign country to attend secondary school. Quite a financial burden… Just goes to show how badly families want to opt out of the SKorean school culture.</p>