School System
The school follows a southern hemisphere custom where school year starts in February and ends in mid December. Mondays to Fridays are school days. Unlike at other Hong Kong local schools there are four term breaks during the school year, usually in April, July and October.
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Famous quotes containing the words school and/or system:
“Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: The school is the hope for your future, listen, be good and learn and the school is your enemy. . . . Children who receive the school is the enemy message often go after the enemyact up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.”
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—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)