Relocating to Cairo!!!

I think its a right decision. As we know Cairo or Al Rehab may be better for your daughter's education system.
Good luck.
IMIG

Many Thanks for all your replies.

Depends on what you want for a school!
What I know is that here in Egypt, it is not enough to pay the school fees, for your child to get the diploma and to graduate, the staff is very strict and serious with learning, and students of international private school are at the high level!
So, what was the problem there? what difficulties were that you haven t accepted or solved?  What type of school do you try to find for your child?

Hi valibilic,

We already found a school in cairo which we very happy with and now i know we made the right decision. Very strange that you mention ''the staff is very strict and serious with learning, and students of international private school are at the high level'', who don't want this for his/her child??? In my opinion the best way!!!
Anyway thanks to all for your advices and maybe see you somewhere around in Cairo.
God bless you

The schools that I know are in this way!
I used to teach more than one year in an American college in Alexandria, and I could say as an insider of the system that was and is so! But exception sometimes, confirms the rule!
I would invite you to see some European private school, where parents throw their children there, giving them lots of money, and considering that it is enough to pay !
Some students use to leave school by the final of courses, go to bars, spend their nights in not nice places, and teachers have not too many things to do, cause " they are the payers"..  really I don t want to talk more about this!
Compare with this,in Egypt, I never was let to leave the school without a written excuse signed by director neither teachers, nor students, and if a student learns , passes examinations, if not, doesn t matter who you are, the student falls!

Hi Valibilic,

I feel sorry for you that you had a bad experience but i love the school we have choosen and i know their reputation very very well, the have indead rules and that's how we like it, concerning the fact that children goes to bars.... well i think education starts at home and the school is an aid in the education so where are all those parents to look after their children??? This situation you dicribe you find allover Europe and doens't have anything  to do with Egypt!!!! The problem those days is (all over the world) that people are not satisfied and happy anymore, they want always more and more, parents go both to work, don't have time for their children,in the weekends they are tiered and put the children in front of the television and the kids are lost so how can they see what their children are doing???????
I know that in Sharm the schools are faaaaaaar below any schools in the world don't let me mention the management (zero), to go back to my country i don't want because i have my life here with my family so Cairo is afterall not that bad.
Again i feel really sorry for you and i hope one day you will have a good experience and enjoy your life here, if it's not i think you should concider anohter solution.

Have a nice day

I didn t say that this happened to me in Europe! To my luck never I lived such an event in my career, but I could see how teachers in Europe use to gather students for classes, and schools gates are opened during classes!
The comparison was that in Egypt you must have a strong reason for leaving school by final of daily activities, no matter that you are student or teacher or administration staff!
So, please, don t feel any pity for me, or sorry, no necessary after my 30 years of career! And now I am manager, by the way...

@ valibilic :

I think there is really something missing with you, pleas read my comments again, no use to have any further conversations with you this is not up to my level and I am not a manager )

God bless you!!!!

In case that you haven t remembered what you comment just I want you to revise: "Hi Valibilic,

I feel sorry for you that you had a bad experience...Again i feel really sorry for you and i hope one day you will have a good experience and enjoy your life here, if it's not i think you should concider anohter solution."
SO:1.I didn t have any bad experience. How have you reached this conclusion as soon as I didn t mention this happened to me?
   2. Considering that you don t know me, keep your advice for yourself!I didn t ask for any!
   3. Kindly, I ask the administrators of the forum, to revise the topic, and to take a decision concerning underground "pins"
Thank you!

@ Valibilic :

I was right, my intuition never let me down and also no this time!!!!

You're not worthy to even talk about and if the administrators are people with with knowledge they will see that in this topic there is no underground ''pins''.

Have a nice day and Good luck to you, hope one 1 day you will be a positive girl, in the mean time don't take other people in you negative web, let's keep this forum a friendly and positive place, where expats can meet, this is ultimately intended, isn't it )))

God bless you!!!!

1. First posting in this forum was a complaining having children and living in that resort. Sharm is a resort mainly for holidays and free time, not a powerful center for learning
TO remember you what you have written there:
"Sharm is a perfect place to be if you don't have children : Sun - Sea - Beach and a lot of discover concerning nightlife, diving, culture....with children live becomes a different storie".
2. Don t trust too much in your intuition, maybe not having a job or a career, you are an outsider of working system, and intuition could be down without a healthy practicing of it!
3. If you read all my postings here, you could see that I am not a frustrated person living indoors ans complaining about any upper level working person, I am a very happy one, people from this forum that I have already met them in person could confirm this!
4. I am a very positive person, maybe this is due not being a housewife, just a free woman, but what is positive for you maybe it is negative for you!
To be more explicit, Positive means for me: organizing by myself my life, at moral standards, depending financially only by myself, saying YES, when I feel this and daring ti say No when I can t accept something!I walk a lot, not asking anybody for permission,I dance a lot, being allowed to do this, I keep my tradition, that never will be changed for nothing but my trust,and by nobody, for all gold in this world!
By the way, I never wear any gold, only my earrings that are given to me by my Godmother when I was inchristinat , I wear flowers, roses especially, silk, velvet, that I consider them more feminine that tones of gold jewels, in my opinion!
But any person is free to chose his/ her way of subordinate, and for this maybe has to give up a lot of his/ her way of being!

1. First posting in this forum was a complaining having children and living in that resort. Sharm is a resort mainly for holidays and free time, not a powerful center for learning
TO remember you what you have written there:
"Sharm is a perfect place to be if you don't have children : Sun - Sea - Beach and a lot of discover concerning nightlife, diving, culture....with children live becomes a different storie" = still truth
2. Unfortunately we have our own business and I work very hard out running my household and my first intuition is alwasy right, it never let me down
3. well this is what you say
4. good for you for me the same
5. totally agree and i would have it in another way : you see it's not all that bad, we agree about something

Have a blessful day and who knows someday we will meet up to drink a cup of coffee chatting and laughing who was wrong and who was right, but at the same time, who cares???

by the way I see know that we have another interest in common :

Feng-shui

isn't it scary???

What s my opinion and it is very true:
* when you go to a doctor for being, let s say " operated" doctor takes decisions , not you, what s good to be done for your benefit!
* the same is in learning system, as soon as you agree to give your daughter to be educated, try to trust the educators, they are specialists in teaching, nobody give them a diploma for nothing, and they know what s good for your child!
* the problem here is that ALL PARENTS CONSIDER THEY ARE GOOD IN JUDGING LEARNING SYSTEM, that sometimes it is wrong!
* if you don t respect the school, the teachers that educate your child, and don t trust in their art of building children personalities, soon you start complaining again about the new school you have carried your daughter!
and CHANGING EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IS SOMETIME A DISASTER IN THE LIFE OF A STUDENT, some of them need a lot of time to fit and the impact it is major!
Just tell me after a time how is! not now,

what's the differents between

1. cairo english school and

2. the British school par exemple in Al Rehab?

many thanks

They have similar curriculum, British one, very good staff, wonderful environment, both have good teaching and learning materials, equipments, laboratories, libraries....
I could say something about Cairo English School, cause I teach privately some students from there, not because at school teachers don t do their job, but only for these students were missing a period of school being ill, and the school policy don t allow any teacher to have classes with their students out of the school. This is available all over Egypt, being against the schools regulations!
Both of them are quite good, depending on how far is for your place where you live here, being very far could affect your daughter, being tired of traveling to and from school.
Spending hours on the way affect me that I am strong, but a child! When she comes home she will not be able to resist at doing any homework, will be sleepy and nervous!
So take care at distances!

Nice to hear that Al Rehab have good school, this was my first intuition and option because it's easy to have everything at 1 place, i will visit the place in a few days.

What are you teaching???

greetz

In fact , I was teacher 29 years, all subjects in primary school, and English to upper level, along with implementing and coordinating international educational projects of UNPD, PHARE, Rorary Club, Save the Children- Sweden,...
Now I am marketing manager in an International Center for Languages, a branch of British Institute, but I use to have courses for English for special proposes: Business, Medical, Counseling...
Along with this job, I am Marketing Executive in an International Agency for Recruitment, and if you really have to feel sorry for me you could do it just for every day I travel at least 3 hours to these jobs and back, not wanting to give up living in Maadi.
What I told you , I said from my experience:
* students too tired because they lived far from school, not being able to complete their tasks at school and to finish their homework;
* parents that or stayed on the head of administration considering their child is a genius, and unfair punishment were for him; I managed well all situations inviting parents to join us in the classes, building a strategy that complete their wishes, and through my proud all time they bow their head in front of me. some of them just left children at school being happy they they escape them, I tricked them to join our after school activities, and I was said " NEVER I KNEW BEFORE MY CHILD COULD DO THIS", or one student explained me" I SOLVED PERFECT MY MATHS HOMEWORK! MY MOTHER COULD UNDERSTAND NOTHING FROM IT, AND I ADVICE HER TO JOIN US, MISS VALI!" So what do you want more??
I don t use to teach too much now, cause my vocal cords are not perfect, already I was operated 10 years ago on them, and THIS IS MY REASON LEAVING A VERY COLD COUNTRY, as it is Romania, and CHOOSING TO LIVE HERE!
That s why I was very angry when from your words you let to be understood, maybe I was not able to manage bad situation!
By the way! Have a look at my photo! Add that I am 177cm tall, and I am not very skinny! Do you think that somebody argue in my front being face to face and giving polite reasons, explaining and persuading in his/ her favor?