The tragedy is that classmate’s parent to thinks he/she knows the reason for an 11 year olds language skills and academic abilities. What do you really know about this child’s experience and abilities?? Let’s please be supportive of our community and children
Additionally, a child’s lack of Spanish fluency on parents choice for child to attend a school which follows the British national curriculum.
Morna is not a Spanish school, they do not teach in Spanish immersion. They do teach Spanish, some children learn well, some don’t based on many factors, mostly child’s ability, family suppprt and motivation. Do family encourage TV, movies in Spanish at home? Conducting shopping and communicating in Ibiza in Spanish? Or is home life strictly in another language?
Mestral Students, you could complain, don’t learn English well enough to thrive if they switched to a school in Leister UK.
There are British & International Schools all over the world. The purpose is to follow the curriculum of the home country. Most will a teach local language, but an individual child’s outcomes, like with any subject, are based on the child’s abilities and family commitment.
The French School follows a curriculum which would allow the family to move back to France and join a local school without much disruption. Take exams in France etc.
Parents who want their children to be bilingual, while at an International/British School, need to supplement with family or child tuition and local integration.
School bashing and complaining in Ibiza is pointless when comparing apples and oranges. You get what you you enroll in & pay for. Parents - Do your homework - visit the schools and make your individual choice for your family.
My colleague, local Ibiza family, have their kids at Morna specifically because they want their child to learn in English immersion with the goal of their children having UK native English and going to Uni in USA or UK (hopefully on scholarship).
It’s a family choice looking to the future. Please don’t blame this one 11 year old!