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Virtually every five year old comes to school eager to learn. The mission of Quality Schools International

(QSI) is to keep this urge to learn alive in every child in QSI schools. Our schools are established to provide

in the English language a quality education for students in the cities we serve. These students are the

children of parents of many nationalities who have come to a foreign country, usually for a limited stay of a

year or more. Some students are permanent residents, citizens of the host country.

Our schools follow a logical model of education, which measures success by the accomplishments, and

attitudes of our students. We believe that all of our students can succeed, that their successes encourage

them to continue in a pattern of success, and that it is the schools' responsibility to provide the conditions

for success. These conditions include i) developing clear statements in measurable terms of what the

student will do to demonstrate mastery of learning, ii) providing the time and resources needed for each

student to attain mastery, and iii) ensuring that students engage in learning at a level which is challenging

and yet a level for which each student has the prerequisite skills necessary for success.

We believe in providing an aesthetically pleasing physical surrounding under the charge of a caring staff who

believes their students will be successful, and who use time with the students as a resource for learning

rather than as a boundary condition to determine when a unit of learning begins and ends. We believe in

providing resources such as books, learning materials, and educational technology. In the world today

children need to become proficient in the use of computers and related technology as tools to accomplish a

myriad of tasks.

Finally we believe in working with parents to encourage our students to adopt qualities of living which lead

to success long after formal schooling has ended. These include universally accepted "success orientations"

of trustworthiness, kindness/politeness, responsibility, independent endeavor, concern for others, group

interaction, and aesthetic appreciation.