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TCIS is an okay school that is good for people who are willing to study a lot and are good at making friends. Most students will value popularity more than your qualifications, so even if you are qualified for SC, you will lose if you run against someone popular. I will also say that this school does target language-only learning, which makes it hard to learn more languages and means that what I can learn in an online course in 1 year it might take 4-5 years. I have been learning Thai for 4 years, and I am still in pre beginer so that says how bad it is. Even though I get A's every year in Thai, I still have not moved up at all. I have had an okay experience that is not that good but not that bad.

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I feel that many teachers have trouble teaching/delivering content and making sure students understand. I can feel that some are trying really hard so they should get some assistants. On the other hand, the management is trash. Some rules are unreasonable: not being able to dye hair, having to change after PE even though we sweat having to walk around up and down the stairs carrying heavy backpacks. Lastly my experience being in middle school student council was not good. The middle school was told that their student council made a new rule (having to change after PE) even though the topic was not brought up at all during meetings so that was already blaming in a way. Details on events going on were not given so students didn't know how to sign up or what we needed to wear at these events. Students kept asking me for details even though these details weren't shared with me. I want this year's student council (2023-2024) to be more professional. Could you guys please do that?

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I am a student at TCIS and I think that the we can go in but not out canteen rule for one week is pointless, I enjoy eating lunch in plt much much more than eating in the crowded cafeteria, you guys don't let kids eat on time, some of the other classes lunch time is even later than 12:30. What if some of us have stomach problems?!?! I am still starving. You said that we could eat on the benches, OH WHY IT TURNS OUT THAT I CAN'T EVEN WALK OUT TO THE BENCHES!!

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I worked at this school for 8 years. Like any school, TCIS has its pros and cons. The kids are amazing. Most of them are honestly the sweetest, smartest students I've ever had the pleasure of teaching. The school is probably 60% Thai and 30% Taiwanese, with a few other nationalities and Western teachers' kids mixed in. Western students (at least those not conversational in Thai or Chinese) above grade 5 will likely have a hard time fitting in. What the student population lacks in diversity, though, they more than make up for in passion, curiosity, and kindness. There is support from the board and admin, especially when convenient for them, or if it assists them with marketing and advertising. Example: half the seniors were excused from all their classes for 2 solid weeks to apply to Universities in the USA that few of them actually wanted to attend. The seniors hated doing these applications, but were given no choice. The school paid for these applications and coerced the students to follow-through in order to post on social media about their acceptances at big-name universities in the States. Otherwise, support is sparse, or lacks follow through. They generously built me huge new facilities, then didn't properly acoustically insult or furnish them, so they were just as useless as they were before the renovation. They do everything as cheap as possible. The Board and Admin are perfectly content to pretend everyone is happy and the school is humming along problem-free. The reality is that the school operates on a shoestring budget; it is certainly one of the least-expensive international schools in Thailand, but the run-down facilities (mold in the ceilings), laughable teacher compensation (thus the high turnover), and huge class sizes (I often had 30 or more in my classes) reflect that. TCIS has a diverse teaching staff, featuring some of the best teachers you'll ever meet, along with some of worst people who simply phone it in day after day, year after year so they can live a semi-retired life in Thailand. It seems many teachers at the school are either lifers, who stubbornly don't want to change anything and still teach like they're in the 80's, or teachers who want to come in and change everything for 2 years (like haphazardly introducing a one-to-one MS laptop program without thinking it through) so they can pad their resumes and springboard into better-paying gigs elsewhere. The most disturbing part, to me, is that many teachers seems to think they exist in a vacuum. Many pull students out of other teachers' classes constantly in order to have extra contact time for whatever they need to do. It was rare for me to have every student in class due to the number of "approved" disruptions and "excused" absences for everything from College Application help, Student Counsel meetings, Selling French Fries at Lunch to pay for Prom, setting up Halloween decorations... the list goes on. Parents are paying for students to attend a Community Center, not a school. Teachers schedule their own events with no regards for other teachers' schedules or planned activities. Multiple bookings in the theater are commonplace. Concerts and Assemblies were canceled due to scheduling conflicts more often than they occurred. Students multiple consecutive days of class to prepare for the next big cultural assembly, of which there was no shortage, is a common occurrence year round. I rarely was able to teach anything in the weeks leading up to Chinese New Year, Christmas, or Songkran due to the number of students "excused" from my classes, without prior notice, by other teachers. If I had to guess, I imagine the average student might be in class 80% of the time. Admin are generally genuinely good people, and were usually good to me. However, they often seemed more concerned with being everybody's buddy and wishfully thinking that everyone would just get along instead of making the difficult decisions about what was best for the students. I believe the turnover in admin may be the school's single biggest problem: in the 8 years I worked at TCIS, there were no 2 consecutive years where the leadership team remained the same. Every single year that I taught there (2012 - 2020), there was at least one new principal or Head of School, and this held true for the year prior to my arrival, and will be true again for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year, which makes for at least 10 years of inconsistent, patchwork leadership. There's been a new curriculum coordinator every year for 5 consecutive years, and few if any of them actually qualified for the position; the current one certainly is not. Despite the administration's best efforts, it's impossible for any school to get moving in any direction when the leadership changes that frequently. The school often felt like a ship lost at sea, with no rudder and no captain to steer it in a meaningful way. The school just "exists", seemingly without self-reflection, innovation, or forward momentum of any kind. The constant turnover in leadership and teaching staff means that TCIS dreams big and admirably tries to be the best at absolutely everything they do, but doesn't have the long-term follow through or proper support to pursue those big ideas. So, instead of being the best at anything, TCIS ends up being slightly better than mediocre at everything. Example: last year, they started requiring Spanish, Japanese, and Korean in the middle school -- on top of their mandatory Thai, Chinese and English courses -- yet plenty of the students weren't at grade level even in English, the language of instruction. Another example: teachers spending 3 days getting trained on Socratic Seminar style learning at a fancy Bangkok hotel, and then never discussing it or following up on it during professional development ever again. I could write a whole other essay on abandoned initiatives at that school, which is a shame, because a lot of those very initiatives are genuinely good ideas, but often, no one stays long enough to see them through. TCIS is "known" for their Traditional Chinese program, and they certainly have some fine Chinese teachers, but the reality is, TCIS seems to send their native Chinese speakers to compete against 2nd language Chinese speakers from other schools, then brags about the quality of their Chinese program. I know dozens of alumni who complain once they get to college and realize they actually aren't "college ready" fluent in 3 languages, but instead have a solid 8th grade reading ability in 3 (or more) languages. I watched at an assembly one year when two of the top Seniors in that grade, both who had been students at TCIS their entire lives, were asked to give an announcement in their non-native tongue: the Taiwanese student in Thai, and the Thai student in Taiwanese. Neither could do it. Everyone laughed, even though it wasn't funny... it was sad. It's also curious that all the students are required to study 3 - 6 languages when the Western teachers are for the most part solidly monolingual and have no experience or concept of what it takes to learn a second language, let alone a third. Academically, some alumni have gone on to great schools like Princeton, UC Berkeley, and UBC. The vast majority of students go to schools in Thailand, with a few going to Taiwan, which makes one wonder why so many students are unwilling being pushed into struggling through 3 - 4 AP Courses every year. The school makes a point to highlight their strongest academic students, but in my 8 years of experience there, I think only the top 20% and bottom 20% of students receive proper instruction and support; everyone else in the middle 60% are left to teach themselves, as their teachers are preoccupied with the "Smart" students and the "struggling" students. Classes are either taught to the top, as many kids get pushed into AP classes they have no business in, or taught to the bottom, where classes are simplified to accommodate students who can't speak English. So, students who are the very best and would succeed anywhere will have an opportunity to be the big fish in a small pond, and students who just need to learn basic conversational English and nothing else will have plenty of teachers helping them do just that. To summarize, TCIS is a decent school for some students, but it should be a much better school than it is. On paper, they should be one of the best schools in Bangkok. Instead, TCIS is the epitome of squandered potential. For 6 of my 8 years there, I was very happy; for the last 2, I overstayed my welcome.

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