International School Hunting - For My 7 Years Old Son

I would comment only that I think you may find Taylors KL rather more academic because of the clientelle, although it does have an array of amazing subjects of interest outside the normal curriculum. It has been through a rebranding process as it was a school without a good reputation a couple of years ago and Taylors owned it then.

My gut feeling is that the fees are kept low to attract pupils, and indeed quite a few expats have their children at the school so it is working. It does have the Malaysian school holidays, so its a hybrid school really - but this may be good as your son would be off when his neighbours are out of school (think about this aspect). Whether the fees will be hiked up in a year or so is an interesting question. I will find the previous name of the school so you can see the complaints that were made about it.

Access to Taylors KL would be horrendous as the traffic is horrible in Ampang.

Found the name - the school was called Sri Garden.

In addition to intl schools, there are also many less expensive private schools / homeschooling centres in that region, definitely worth checking out!

I know a kid named Jacob from Brisbane with Asperger and hyperactive condition. Jacob could never sit still and non-stop touching items belong to others. The parents followed doctors' advice and gave him medicine. The mum tried 5 local schools and all failed at the end. In one school Jacob was locked up in storage room. In other schools he was either bullied or the school complained him not returning to classroom after recess, the teachers said he was on the field looking at something attracted to him. Few years later the family moved to Singapore for job, they sent Jacob to a one-to-one type of private education. He now learns at his own pace, no medication and he is very happy.

Sir Ken Robinson in his TED talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RumyGvl-vk ) mentioned a young lady who had ADHD was sent to see specialist for solution, it was later found out that she is natural dancer so she went to a dance school instead of the traditional one.

No one school will fit all students, as parents we will just have to keep exploring. So keep your options open, maybe a non-mainstream school with smaller class size will suit him. Is there any Montessori (not nursery) or Rudolf Steiner primary school available in Malaysia??

Hi maxelas, you might be interested in the this message posted by someone called Aliaalia32  https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 51&p=2

" Hi
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The centre is located in :  Q Academy Sdn Bhd, No 2B (2nd floor), Jalan Wan Kadir 1, taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. Tel no (03) 77313468/0122224043 Ms Lilian Tan"

From their website

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