Friday, August 3, 2007

Kindergarten In Beijing - Impressive

Here are some precious local children in class. We arrived at this private Kindergarten school via a rickshaw vehicle. Regarding school in China, kids are not permitted to go to government subsidized primary school until they are 6 years old. So that means their parents must be quite well-to-do if to afford the high tuition required to send kids to a school like this. We were told that some of the children even reside at this multifunctional boarding type preschool that operates year round. We were so excited to see that this school was well-equipped with so many nice amenities especially the playground stuff. The children seemed to be accustomed to the interruption of their classes by American tourists like us. We really enjoyed popping our heads into the children's classrooms to observe their learning environment. The kindergarten teacher ratio is about 3 full time teachers to 35 children, when at capacity.

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