When we moved to Oaxaca we were looking for a school for our kid which at the time would only be…read moretemporary, my family really recommended ISF, so we decided to sign him up. I wouldn't say it was a mistake but if I had to do it all over again I would choose a different school. The education is very traditional, which I do believe works for a lot of kids, just not for our kid. What I do like is they organize a few festivals in school, like for independence day, dia de muertos, mother's day, etc, I do question why not a festival for fathers' day? they are as important as mothers. On children's day there's another festival, but it's the parents who get to perform to entertain the kids, which I did loved last year! Also every day a different mom/dad gets to prepare the lunch for their kid's classroom, so they get to try different foods and hopefully not be so picky about what they eat, but if you don't want to, you don't have to participate. When our son started school I did send the lunch for the classroom but the other days I send my kid his lunch but eventually kept on with the program. I also like that it's not only the teacher in the classroom, but there's an assistant to help her maintain order and take care of the kids, which is something that wasn't very common when I went to kindergarten.

I visited this school with my husband a few months ago. At…read morefirst we were very impressed and excited about this new school. But after a few weeks to think it thru we thought it would be better to not choose this place. They have a completely different & interesting way of teaching the kids, which I totally agree with but we really appreciate our privacy so the fact that this school is very involved in every student's life it made things a bit difficult for us. It's still growing, groups are small and it's not separated in grades like regular schools do, which is also another reason we had second thoughts, the groups are very small so they don't really get to socialize a lot.