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What Parents Say About ISB

by Bill Gerritz 13 June, 2007

In early June, 2007,  I e-mailed all departing ISB families asking for their future e-mail addresses so that in about 6 months we could survey them about their children’s transitions. Although comments were not requested at this time, many parents wrote about their children’s experiences at ISB. Here is a sample of them. I have removed student names in the interest of privacy.

"I take this opportunity to thank you for the excellent three years our children spent at ISB. During these years, they have matured and their horizons have greatly expanded. It was a great learning experience for them."

"We appreciate your concern for name, and would like to let you know that ISB is a wonderful school, and name has had many good experiences here.  It is the root of his future success."

"We are confident that ISB's education will be helpful for our children to adapt themselves to school transition at new school in Korea. So we would like to express our sincere appreciation to ISB's staff and all teachers who taught and assisted our children for 3 years."

"We certainly appreciate your continuing effort in making ISB a great school, and we are glad to be able to contribute towards your remarkable effort."

"Leaving ISB is one of the saddest parts of this move. We have been overwhelmingly happy with our experiences at the school over the years. I just went to my 3rd Fifth grade graduation yesterday, and it was perfectly lovely as usual. I really believe that we have some of the best teachers in the world here."

"Name has been with ISB since KG and it seems he always saw himself graduating from here. This is the secret he shared with us on coming to know of the upcoming move.ISB worked very well for name, and every year we could see the transition and development he underwent. We've been closely involved with ISB and that's the reason this move doesn't seem too easy. We hope that we can get a similar set up there but at the same time are sure that the base name got here is so wonderful and he will always carry it with him wherever he is!"

"Thank you for all your support and guidance as we will cherish these years always!"

"Name and name have been very engaged with the school and activities since they joined ISB in January 2006. ISB will be on a very short list of experiences that they will miss dearly and treasure for many years to come. Thank you for creating a nuturing and stimulating environment for name and name this past year."

"We have been extremely fortunate in Bangkok because one could not wish for a better school, for a more satisfying, challenging and safe environment. We wanted to thank all of you for your hard work and dedication, for the warmth and care and for creating this unique atmosphere, which makes ISB such a wonderful place."

"Perhaps the best way to summarize what ISB meant for our family, would be to quote name. His reaction to having to stay at home due to a bout of flu was one sentence: “Oh no, I will miss the school!!!!!"

"Thank you for giving name the best education we could hope for."

"We have loved having our son at ISB and will dearly miss the school and teachers. It's been nothing but the best experience for our son."

"We will miss ISB's culture, environment and friends and will be happy to give you feedback on name and name transition in Virginia."

"We would be pleased to hear from you sometime during the next school year, so we can provide feedback to ISB about how our kids will have done in the transition to a new school. I hope that the next school is as thoughtful about measuring success (and failure) as ISB has been."

"Overall it has been a great experience at the ISB and all children have had three great years."

"We appreciate and truly value our children's learning experience in the midst of ISB's warm, nurturing and caring environment - something Noel, Michelle, name, name and name can take with them wherever they go and build on." 

"ISB has been a wonderful experience for us.  It is a large contributor to making our two year stay in Bangkok a tremendous experience.  Holly has earned all A's and B's and has grown up a lot and made lots of new friends from all over the world.  What more can a parent want?"

"ISB has been a wonderful school, and it will be hard to leave. We feel like we are leaving part of our family behind in Bangkok."

"Thank you to you and your terrific staff for making ISB more than just a school ! We have had a fantastic 4 years here."

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at ISB for the excellent time and education name has experienced. He has never complained about going to school and if his report card is up to previous he certainly has worked hard."

"I am confident that name will have no problems with the transition and has been well prepared by her teachers at ISB."

"I can tell you that both name and name have enjoyed ISB very much.  They are not ready to move on, my son especially.  He wanted to graduate from ISB.  I think ISB is a great school and will be with name and name for their lives."

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