Elementary and High School site spaces in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Coastal China and South Korea are so limited and expensive that students make do with crowded environments, lack of sufficient sports grounds, and in certain places polluted air as well. Food and service prices in such school sites are 3-5 times those of the Philippines. Mega co-ops may address the issue at mutual profit for all involved by offering satellite school sites to such foreign schools on 50-year lease. Such sites should have wide academic and sports grounds and be located near forest or beachfront resorts. Mega co-ops should provide adjacent sites for condominiums, hotels and inns. As with the previously described resorts (Post 28), all school buildings and facilities (single or clustered) should be surrounded by 'jacket cliff' buildings planted to flowers, salad greens, fruit-bearing plants and vegetables that serve as profitable 'vertical farms' while preserving or enhancing the beauty of the environment. The mega co-op shall operate such 'vertical farms' for 80% of profit, the rest going to the school management. Products may be sold to the school's canteen, to resorts' restaurants, and to nearby towns' markets. Endless supply of fresh vegetables and fruits thru staggered sowing and harvests may thus be assured throughout the areas covered.
Philippine employee groups that obtained loans from local State banks may build inns, retailing outlets, and service outfits (salons, vehicle and appliance repair, clinics, craft shops, etc.) in nearby towns. The school sites' serviced condo units for rent may likely be patronized by students' visiting parents and relatives, plus their 'hauled' tourist friends. Considering the low living costs, transients and tourists will likely stay for weeks with set schedules for island-hopping, fiesta tours, other tourism activities as well as participation in short-course learning tours.
If mega co-ops become able to build such forested satellite schools nationwide, Philippine tourist numbers will likely shoot up each year to the tens of millions, which means expanded sales and profits and rising salaries for all local businesses. Students' retiree grandparents may even stay for years in resort condos, or set up small businesses in resort towns for multi-racial tourists. 1st World retirees who are engineering or Sciences experts in their home countries may teach in Philippine universities or work as consultants in Philippine high-tech companies, local universities and R&D laboratories.
Foreign students' parents may be expected to maintain their kids' studies in the resort schools from Elementary to High School because of ultra-low living costs in the Philippines compared to equivalents in their home countries. The attraction will be bolstered by the resort schools being exact replicas of their home country schools in academic aspects, with the same teachers and teaching standards maintained, but at much lower living costs even considering dormitory fees and parents' bi-monthly visits. One further advantage for foreign parents is the availability of excellent English language teachers in the Philippines. Currently, hordes of South Korean students come to the Philippines to learn English from local schools and tutors.
All construction costs will have to be shouldered by the foreign schools. Supply of local labor and materials should be contracted to construction companies that are joint ventures between mega co-ops and reputable local construction firms. Similarly, foreign companies that lease agro-forest lots for building condos, offices and hotels will have to provide 100% financing for their projects, and hire mega co-op construction companies for supply of labor and local materials. All buildings will have to be demolished and replaced after 50 years of use, when negotiations for lease renewals and new building construction will occur.
The environmental benefits? The permanence of mega co-op resorts, schools, condos, hotels and related town inns will mean high profits for mega co-ops and all others involved. Mega co-ops will then find no problem financing the protection of their agro-forests against fires and clear-cutting by individuals and companies who don't care about the environment. Philippine agro-forests will thus live forever, 'inhaling' billions of tons of atmospheric CO2 and 'exhaling' life-giving oxygen. Philippine resort schools for foreign students will in effect help in fast-track reduction of global warming and help obviate the terrible dangers it poses for humanity and the planet.
Philippine employee groups that obtained loans from local State banks may build inns, retailing outlets, and service outfits (salons, vehicle and appliance repair, clinics, craft shops, etc.) in nearby towns. The school sites' serviced condo units for rent may likely be patronized by students' visiting parents and relatives, plus their 'hauled' tourist friends. Considering the low living costs, transients and tourists will likely stay for weeks with set schedules for island-hopping, fiesta tours, other tourism activities as well as participation in short-course learning tours.
If mega co-ops become able to build such forested satellite schools nationwide, Philippine tourist numbers will likely shoot up each year to the tens of millions, which means expanded sales and profits and rising salaries for all local businesses. Students' retiree grandparents may even stay for years in resort condos, or set up small businesses in resort towns for multi-racial tourists. 1st World retirees who are engineering or Sciences experts in their home countries may teach in Philippine universities or work as consultants in Philippine high-tech companies, local universities and R&D laboratories.
Foreign students' parents may be expected to maintain their kids' studies in the resort schools from Elementary to High School because of ultra-low living costs in the Philippines compared to equivalents in their home countries. The attraction will be bolstered by the resort schools being exact replicas of their home country schools in academic aspects, with the same teachers and teaching standards maintained, but at much lower living costs even considering dormitory fees and parents' bi-monthly visits. One further advantage for foreign parents is the availability of excellent English language teachers in the Philippines. Currently, hordes of South Korean students come to the Philippines to learn English from local schools and tutors.
All construction costs will have to be shouldered by the foreign schools. Supply of local labor and materials should be contracted to construction companies that are joint ventures between mega co-ops and reputable local construction firms. Similarly, foreign companies that lease agro-forest lots for building condos, offices and hotels will have to provide 100% financing for their projects, and hire mega co-op construction companies for supply of labor and local materials. All buildings will have to be demolished and replaced after 50 years of use, when negotiations for lease renewals and new building construction will occur.
The environmental benefits? The permanence of mega co-op resorts, schools, condos, hotels and related town inns will mean high profits for mega co-ops and all others involved. Mega co-ops will then find no problem financing the protection of their agro-forests against fires and clear-cutting by individuals and companies who don't care about the environment. Philippine agro-forests will thus live forever, 'inhaling' billions of tons of atmospheric CO2 and 'exhaling' life-giving oxygen. Philippine resort schools for foreign students will in effect help in fast-track reduction of global warming and help obviate the terrible dangers it poses for humanity and the planet.
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