Lots of non-Chinese kids in the Kindergarten and Primary School. The feedback from most non-Chinese parents I know sending their kids there has been very positive.
The private fee-based kindergarten closed just last year because not enough children enrolled (according to the teacher I spoke with), so the local low-cost kindergarten is so full now that they've been turning provisionally enrolled kids away.
This happened to a couple of my new friends recently; their daughter is roaming free on Lamma till now, making friends of her own. The parents have to look for an off-island kindergarten now.
But it wouldn't be a bad way to spend your first few years of life, free of school learning till P1. We did the same, kindergarten-less and organised-learning-free in the countryside, roaming outside by ourselves frequently, climbing trees in the forest, building dams in rivers, exploring behind waterfalls, not learning any ABCs or math till we were 7 years old enrolling in Primary School. We walked/biked/sledded to school by ourselves from Day 2 of P1. Most of us turned out fine (not counting occasional scrapes, bruises and minor injuries) and some even made it to university, like myself...
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