My husband and I are currently living in Shanghai and we recently found out that our 16 year old nephew is having a lot of "teenage" problems back home. We were hoping to bring him to China for a couple of months. We definately want him to continue his education for the time that he is here but we can not afford many of the schools. Does anyone know of any alternative studies or education (on the very cheap to free end!) that would work for a couple of months. Even local schools would work. We were hoping to incorporate a little "shock factor" anyway.

Please respond with any ideas!

Thanks!

garrettoverseas wrote:My husband and I are currently living in Shanghai and we recently found out that our 16 year old nephew is having a lot of "teenage" problems back home. We were hoping to bring him to China for a couple of months. We definately want him to continue his education for the time that he is here but we can not afford many of the schools. Does anyone know of any alternative studies or education (on the very cheap to free end!) that would work for a couple of months. Even local schools would work. We were hoping to incorporate a little "shock factor" anyway.

Please respond with any ideas!

Thanks!

There is a boarding school in Pudong for grade 6-12 Called Jian Ping (not pin-Yin) Intermediate school. It's a local school, so it should be very affordable, and the chow is not too bad - no worse than high school cafeteria food in the States.

Any of the local schools, and many of the "affordable" international schools will require him to speak or understand some Chinese. Is he chinese american, or can speak some chinese? If so, my teenage son is going to a good local school in Jing'An, it has an international program, (mainly for returning foriegn chinese) and there are only 7 students in his class. It has boarding as well. If he doesn't speak chinese, then at 16, the only schools that teach in english that I know about are the expensive ones.

We homeschool. It has been wonderful for our teens (12,14,15,18). Would somebody be home who could spend time with him? I've found through experience and research that problem teens usually shape-up if they have more time with a caring adult. If you want to know more just email me.
ewema@aol.com Also see our site for homeschooling in shanghai - www.shanghaihomeschool.com He could take accredited classes so he could get back into public school if he wanted too - there are also many alternatives to going to a "real" high school and still going to college.
Catherine

The Taiwanese run US system SMIC Private School in Pudong offers All English stream from Primary School to High School. Most of the students are non Chinese Asians ( Korean, Malaysian) and Taiwanese and they all converse in English. The fee I think is around RMB 20,000 for half a year.

You can check out their website on

http://www.smics.com/SmicSchool/transportation.htm

Hope this is not too late...