Ms. Poon

K1 Admissions Insider (Anonymous)

Anonymous. Former Head of Admissions at a Band 1 kindergarten in Kowloon — name withheld because some of what she writes would end careers, including hers. Reviewed over 4,000 applications and sat across the table from thousands of families over 12 years. She has seen every strategy, every coach-trained toddler, every parent try to charm their way through. She left when her own child hit application age and the hypocrisy became unbearable. She writes to level the playing field: the scoring rubrics schools don't publish, the things that actually get children rejected, and the uncomfortable truths about a system that hides behind the language of child development while operating as pure social selection.