I try to give short descriptions of website. For the Kindergartens I give info like whether it is Montessori oriented or not etc.
The hard thing of making a description is to cut through all the clutter websites use to market/promote themselves. Especially Chinese websites with an English section have the tendency to overdo it.
One Kindergarten describes itself as:
Develop in children a deep respect for cultural diversity, a sense of environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
and
The Campus of 3e International Kindergarten will delight the senses and inspire the imagination of your child.
Looking for a simple description on what they really offer is very hard to find. So my description becomes, boring as it may sound, “3e International Kindergarten, English as the language of learning in the morning and Chinese instruction in the afternoon.”
And, by the way, don’t bother going to this website using Firefox as it won’t display the page.
I am adding/editing kindergarten websites to their respective cities.
The number of English language oriented Kindergartens in China is increasing rapidly and they slowly get on the web.
Most are based in Beijing and Shanghai but I am pretty sure more cities will follow. Not only to cater to expats but also because Chinese parents seem to think that an English Kindergarten is better for the future of their children.
It started all out a long time ago. I was spending a lot of time on the internet searching for China related info. Wherever I went, I got the feeling the info was rather fragmentized.
I bookmarked valuable links and the collection increased considerably. Then it dawned on me, why not put this collection on the net, order it in a way that it is, hopefully, easy for people to find and use.
This thought became Mychinastart.com. The system is still in beta (love that term because it gives you the chance to be buggy as hell and at the same time be live) but almost finished.
It’s now a matter to add all those darn links into it. I never realized that collecting is nice but adding them can be more work than expected. Anyways, that is what is destined myself to do, so I will.
In the mean time I will use the blog to keep you posted about the progress as well as select a daily interesting link that has been added.
