Send them condoms....way too many kids over there!!!

It isn't too cheap on this side of the pond either.

All that money and the farking kids can't even read english, much less speak the darn language

Send em back where they came from...

It'd be funny if these guys tried to actually study (or just read) developmental psychology. There are a lot of ways to help your kid, and a lot of ways to avoid farking up your kid, but none of them cost eleventy thousand dollars a year.
/But I guess they keep their kids motivated in general, so it's not full retard
//I remember exactly nothing that I learned in kindergarden, except for The Oregon Trail
///I'm pretty sure that's all I learned in the first place anyway

SmackLT: On the upside, the children graduate with the same real-world skills as business majors.

And anthropology majors.

/has a buddy that's an anthropology major
//he's a life guard at a community pool

JohnCarter: All that money and the farking kids can't even read english, much less speak the darn language

Send em back where they came from...

Pre-school dammit!!!

Wow, real worker's paradise there.

There's a whole lot of MATH FAIL going on at ABC News. $150 is not "six times" $102.

Where's your communism now?

MDGeist: It isn't too cheap on this side of the pond either.

True that. A good kindergarten in NYC is about $25-37K.

Preschool is $22K

How do you say 'kindergarten' in Chinese?

Maybe the Chinese should try some government program to limit births. I seem to remember it being tried somewhere before....

I hate kids. They can't hold their liquor.

I'd wager the students can't even speak good Egnlish.

Barakku: It'd be funny if these guys tried to actually study (or just read) developmental psychology. There are a lot of ways to help your kid, and a lot of ways to avoid farking up your kid, but none of them cost eleventy thousand dollars a year.
/But I guess they keep their kids motivated in general, so it's not full retard
//I remember exactly nothing that I learned in kindergarden, except for The Oregon Trail
///I'm pretty sure that's all I learned in the first place anyway

Eleventy thousand? No, the school in TFA charges $150 a month. The problem is people in China are too poor even for that.

StrikitRich: How do you say 'kindergarten' in Chinese?

Kindelgalten.

Damn, those Americans and their precious snowflakes...

/oh wait.

By comparison, tuition and accommodation at Peking University, the country's best, costs only about 700 renminbi ($102) a month, thanks to heavy government subsidies.

No great mystery/scandal here. China has a lot of people, the government pays for college.

/On behalf of Farkers everywhere I would like to thank ABC for proving Drew right.

China has ONE thing that makes their economy viable... a cheap, plentiful, expendable workforce. If you go educating them it kind of messes up the economy.

I'm confused. I thought subsidizing education was socialism?

Why is a communist country doing it?


Why did I have to be born in the only developed nation that farks people over who aren't rich? Dammit...

Shakespeare's Monkey: Don't set your standards so high. Teach them to envision using a turn signal.

That's lacist.

You know who else liked kindergarten?

/jes sayin....

probesport: You know who else liked kindergarten?


Naps, blankets, and crackers. What's not to like?

Donald_McRonald: StrikitRich: How do you say 'kindergarten' in Chinese?

Kindelgalten.

Cute, but Chinese actually has separate "R" and "L" sounds (in a manner of speaking).

/why yes, I am a blast at parties.

clancifer: My kids went to a private school starting at age 2. $1,350 a month. Per kid.

How much were the polo lessons?

This actually is relatively new. China has been overpopulated for a long time, but even in the 70s and early 80s there wasn't any issues with children not being able to go to kindergarten. The kindergartens were all state run and were associated with where the parents worked. E.g., my dad was an engineer, so all the children of the people he worked with went to the same kindergarten. Kind of like the on site daycare run by some of the big firms here in the U.S., except it wasn't necessarily on site.

Once China was "opened" to the West and privatized services allowed, the state drastically cut back on early education programs and private schools formed as a result. And, because the purpose of private schools is to make profit and not educate the masses, tuition is priced out of the range of a good deal of people. Plus, the cultural drive to push young children to succeed academically appears to pervade the entire society there so everyone is in competition to get their children into the "best" school they can afford.

austerity101: Donald_McRonald: StrikitRich: How do you say 'kindergarten' in Chinese?

Kindelgalten.

Cute, but Chinese actually has separate "R" and "L" sounds (in a manner of speaking).

/why yes, I am a blast at parties.

Kindergarten in Chinese is youeryuan: 幼儿园. Hey, look right there in the middle is a character pronounced "are," so I guess they can say it. That's the last we'll be hearing of that joke.

Chalker1123: That's the last we'll be hearing of that joke.


absorutry...

Came for the "crackers" reference, leaving pleased with this thread.

cptjeff: Capitalism. It works, biaches.


So you're telling me suburban housewife types are morons in multiple countries? I'm shocked, shocked I say!

Class, today we're going to learn how to count to potato ...

Vidwiz: Send them condoms....way too many kids over there!!!

what are you smoking? condoms are for wussies.. over there they use coat hangers!

but in all seriousness China is actually one of very few countries that has actually taken steps to curb their population growth.,. sure some of their methods are open to debate BUT there is no denying they are trying.... there are dozens of other countries out there where people are breeding like rabbits... and yes that includes the US as well... between inner city youths and rural religious nutjobs pretty soon the US will have have one of 2 people... minority gang bangers and ultra religious redneck rural inbreds.

Daycare can get expensive. My mom sent us to an older lady's home daycare when we were really little, because she didn't charge that much. We moved to exurbia and all the home daycares were atrocious, so she got a nice non-profit daycare staffed by trained professionals. Three kids' tuition would add up to about half her salary at that time (she was only out of the house part time, though). Of course, with my dad working full-time, we could afford her salary loss, and it was still better to lose half her salary than all her salary (by her staying home).

That daycare was probably the best thing that ever happened to me and my siblings, though. We made friends, which never happened at the older lady's tiny daycare or at home-- no cousins to play with and the neighbors were too far away. We got all the childhood diseases that now they can vaccinate against early. And we entered school able to read, write, and do basic addition and subtraction-- way ahead of our peers.

Barakku: //I remember exactly nothing that I learned in kindergarden, except for The Oregon Trail

My school didn't even get computers until I was in 4th grade.

Damn. I was betting NYC, not China.

T.M.S.: MDGeist: It isn't too cheap on this side of the pond either.

True that. A good kindergarten in NYC is about $25-37K.

Preschool is $22K

Umm .... really? Last time I checked public schools are "free" in the U.S. Free as in payed for by the taxpayers but still.

/must not be any "good" public schools in NYC

Satanic_Hamster: Damn. I was betting NYC, not China.

Yep, totally thought this would be a whiny story about the Joneses in NYC.

badstiffy: T.M.S.: MDGeist: It isn't too cheap on this side of the pond either.

True that. A good kindergarten in NYC is about $25-37K.

Preschool is $22K

Umm .... really? Last time I checked public schools are "free" in the U.S. Free as in payed for by the taxpayers but still.

/must not be any "good" public schools in NYC

Yeah, you must not be a parent. Preschool and Kindergarten are not considered public school. You're thinking of grades 1-12, my friend.

I pay $255 a week for daycare for my 8 month old right now, and that's probably the cheapest around. That's roughly $12,000 a year. Oy.

I don't advocate home schooling unconditionally, but when the alternative is to pay a school half (or more) of your household income to teach your kid basic literacy and how to tie his shoes... keeping one parent in a multiple-income household at home to educate the child (or children) seems like a no-brainer.

drb9: $150 is not "six times" $102.

FTFA: "Some charge five times that"

Tapakip: Preschool and Kindergarten are not considered public school. You're thinking of grades 1-12, my friend.

Since when is Kindergarten not considered public school?

My niece just got a scholorship to a pre-school in Orlando, Florida. They charge $9,000 a year. For preschool. Three year olds.

I paid $40 a month 10 years ago and my kid could read when she got to kindergarten.

"True that. A good kindergarten in NYC is about $25-37K.

Preschool is $22K"

For that amount of money, I want my kid to speak Chinese.