Green School Effect

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1. Mate Thitisawat

   2011/06/10

   I really admire what you are doing, and wonder if you have a branch in Thailand, or plan to build one in there.

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   • Chris Thompson

     2011/09/02

     Hi Mate,

     Thank you for your kind inquiry. We have been approached by many groups from around the world to start Green Schools in other parts of the world. We hope to see many Green Schools around the world someday. Thailand would be a wonderful place to have one as well.

     Thank you.

     Chris Thompson
     Manager Director
     Green School

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2. Hermanto Budi

   2011/07/19

   Amazing! Education with real atmosphere……brilliant!.

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3. Dr.G,Ramamoorthy

   2011/09/02

   children must know the gift of nature to the mankind. Green school will definetly make them understand this. Soon we must resque our children from the present CONCRETEJUNGLE and make them live in this kind of wonderfull surroundings

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   • Dr.G,Ramamoorthy

     2011/09/02

     I would like to start a school one like this in Tamil Nadu-India

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   • Chris Thompson

     2011/09/02

     Hi Dr. Ramamoorthy,

     Thank you for your insightful comments. I am the Managing Director but also a parent at the Green School. We came here to give our children the type of education you speak of and we we wanted to leave behind the model of concrete school rooms.

     We have had interest from people in India in wanting to launch a Green School. We hope someday to have one of our schools in your country.

     Thank you. chris

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4. maggietang

   2011/10/14

   I really feel excited about your effort because it’s the first time I seen a program put into practise,and I wonder how do you think about protect local culture?

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   • Chris Thompson

     2011/10/17

     Dear Maggie,

     Local culture is a critical part of what we do at the Green School. In addition to our community development and support programs that we do which reach far and wide we have an Indonesian Scholarship program where we support 19 Indonesian children in our program with effectively full scholarships. We have marvelous children in the program who we hope will be leaders in whatever field they choose in the world.

     I hope you get to visit our school someday and you will get to see the effect we have on the planet, children and the local culture. If you would like to receive regular updates you can sign up for our newsletter as well.

     Thank you for taking the time to write to us.

     Chris Thompson
     Managing Director

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     • Ben Macrory

       2011/10/17

       Hi Maggie,

       To echo my colleague Chris, thanks for your support and for your interest in Green School!

       Aside from the scholarship program that Chris discussed, there are many other ways that we try to be a good neighbor and support and protect the rich Balinese culture that surrounds us.

       Our creative arts program is heavily influenced by the artistic traditions of Bali and Indonesia, and our Indonesian Studies course ensures that students both local and international study Bahasa Indonesia, along with history, culture and geography of this part of the world.

       And while we don’t espouse Balinese Hinduism to our students, we do operate the school in a way that is in accordance with local traditions and customs. We recently erected a Hindu temple in the middle of the campus with a huge ceremony that involved multiple priests, several gamelan orchestras, and dance performances. And the school honors all of the major Balinese festivals with special assemblies, etc.

       We’re in the middle of a very beautiful and relatively undeveloped part of Bali. We’re safety-conscious and have an excellent security team but unlike many international schools we haven’t built big concrete walls to keep our neighbors out. Instead, the Green School campus is physically open to all of the villages that surround us. I think this is a lovely symbol of our attempts to integrate with our host community and allow the magic of Bali to permeate everything we do!

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5. Tina Chen

   2011/10/20

   I really like your greenschool and the way you teach the students. We would like to have green school in shanghai china. We have green village in shanghai and we can build a school in the green village.
   We would like to know more about “the green school”

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6. Farit las

   2011/10/28

   i want to join with green school, how can i do? i live in phnom penh i don’t know the green school.

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7. Theresa Miller

   2012/01/01

   Hello
   We are holidaying in Bali from Sydney and would like to visit your school on January 10th please? We are looking at enrolling our girls in August 2013. Our friends, Warwick and Tara Hunt from sydney have raved about the green school. Their twins, Eliza and Tilly have just spent 6 months with you. Please let me know if it would be ok to visit.
   Thank you
   kind regards,
   Theresa Miller

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8. Rosanna Diaz

   2012/04/25

   Realmente es algo impresionante y maravilloso. Estoy muy en sintonia con ustedes.
   Soy Arquitecto y maestra jardinera Waldorf. Vivo en la República Dominicana, estoy interesada en este tipo de construcción, así que cualquier información de detalles sobre este tipo de construcción, o algún curso al respecto, le agradeceré la información.
   Espero tengamos mucho verde, por mucho tiempo, gracias y mucha suerte en este grandioso proyecto.

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