Looking for the most beautiful. A record of a visit to Happy Jia Kindergarten
This kindergarten is a local girl who goes out to work and is concerned about her hometown. There was no kindergarten for her children, so she resolutely quit her high-paying job in the city and went back to her hometown to start from scratch!
Back 20 years ago, 1997, Tan Ling quit her job as a teacher in a big kindergarten in Dongguan and returned to her hometown in the countryside. At that time, her salary was already more than 1000 yuan, which was considerable at that time. For a girl in her early twenties, she has this job and can live like many city girls. But why did she quit her job and return to her hometown?
It turned out that when Tan Ling was young, there was never a kindergarten in her hometown. Until the 1990s, her childhood was only in preschool, and her children could only receive preschool education at the age of 6 7. During her three years working in Shenzhen, she deeply felt the quality education of urban children and the far-reaching influence of kindergartens on young children. She thought about the present situation of education in her hometown, and she came up with a crazy and bold idea-running a kindergarten!
When she returned to her hometown, she told her parents what she thought. Everyone must have guessed her parents' reaction and thought she was crazy. Quit such a good job and do a job with insecure income and great risks. But now that she has decided, support her to do it. As a result, all the usable wood at home in those days became tables, chairs and the simplest wooden toys in a few days.
All the equipment and toys were available, and then the house was rented out, and the procedures were finally approved. In this way, the first private kindergarten in the history of Jin Dong Town opened, which was named nursery kindergarten at that time.
The existence of a kindergarten in the town, like an explosive news, was a big event in that year. Shiliba village is all spread out, so fresh. It is good for some people to pay attention, but not many people can accept it.
In this way, the kindergarten officially opened, 30 square meters, starting with several children, Tan Ling was the only one inside and outside the kindergarten. Slowly a dozen people, twenty people. A school has nearly 30 children at the end of the first semester. What was the admission fee at that time? One semester 150 yuan. I don't go for 30 yuan every month.
In order to reduce expenses, my mother helped to cook, and my newly graduated sister Tan Mei (the protagonist of this visit) helped her sister to take care of the children. With the efforts of the whole family, by the end of the second half of the semester, more than 80 children had been exposed. Kindergarten has also expanded from the previous 30 square meters to 80 square meters. With the gradual acceptance of parents, kindergartens have grown to 120 children.
Entrepreneurship is hard, for brave people! Such a good time is not long. In the second year, a new policy was introduced, and all primary schools set up kindergarten classes, public! Suddenly, from more than a hundred children to eight. For a time, like the stock market crash, the kindergarten was deserted, and the most important thing was a psychological blow. The old man also advised her not to do it, but her arms could not twist her thighs. .......
From the policy point of view, this is the first fair competition between public kindergartens and private kindergartens. In terms of resources, public kindergartens have absolute advantages, which can effectively and accurately transmit information and grasp the general entrance of primary school enrollment. Private kindergartens can only win the reputation of ordinary people if they teach their children well.
Entrepreneurship has once again returned to the original point. Unwilling Tan Ling once again plucked up courage, made progress bit by bit, and increased students one by one. The difference this time is that many parents come back from public kindergartens and come here. Good reputation has won a good market, which is the aspiration of the people and the cornerstone of step-by-step growth.
Recalling this past, Tan Ling thanked herself for her original choice and persistence.
In the following years, the kindergarten's career got better and better, which was the result of the sisters and the whole family's all-out efforts. To what extent is this all-out? Tan Mei recalled a past event, which is still fresh in women's memory.
There were only two sisters Tan Ling and Tan Ling in early kindergartens. At that time, there were almost no kindergarten teachers in the countryside. Tan Mei has been working from pregnancy to delivery. She and her sister each brought dozens of children. It was September 2, the second day of school. The new children in kindergarten are not used to crying and need to be coaxed all the time. Today is very hard.
In the morning 10, Tan Mei found that his amniotic fluid was broken and ran down his leg. Sister told her to go to the hospital at once, which was very dangerous. Tan Mei doesn't trust the children in this class, and thinks he can stick to it. He didn't go to the hospital until noon to put the child to sleep. Although both the mother and the baby were safe in the end, the doctor told her it was dangerous.
At one time, many parents wanted to send their children, but they didn't have time to send them. Tan Ling rode a motorcycle to pick them up. On rainy days, she fell down with her child again, regardless of her injuries, to see if the child was safe. In the future, if the motorcycle can't meet the demand, I bought a second-hand van and went to pick up the children together in the morning, so that students who live far away can also be taken to the side.
As a mother, Tan Mei continued to run a kindergarten with her sister, and the number of students kept increasing, and the venue of the kindergarten was moved four times in a row because of the increase of students. The kindergarten is getting bigger and bigger, and the two are getting busier and busier. The more energy they put into their work, the less time they have to take care of their families. Tan Mei is always in tears when it comes to her children. She can only accompany her children one day a week, and she lives in kindergarten at other times. Once, the kindergarten organized a spring outing. Tan Mei took the kindergarten children and parents, as well as her own son. Because it is an outdoor activity, Tan Mei's attention has always been on the children in kindergarten. His son asked his mother, "Mom, why did you hold their hands instead of mine once?" Tan Mei fought back tears and told his son, "You are old enough to take care of yourself. Your brothers and sisters need more care." When it comes to his son, Tan Mei feels that he owes a lot to his children.
This is a common phenomenon of preschool education entrepreneurs. They take risks and bear pressure, and they can't relax for a moment.
I can't help wondering when I hear that. I have some time after work every day. Can I often go home to see my children? When I asked the director about his daily life, I understood.
Tan Mei has been a director for ten years. He gets up at 5 o'clock every day and goes to work at 6 o'clock. This is consistent. My wife and children live in the downtown area 30 kilometers away from the town. If they run such a long distance every day, they will not be able to consume energy and physical strength at the same time. I really feel that it is not easy to hear this!
The kindergartens in Jin Dong Town are getting bigger and bigger, and 80% of the children in Jin Dong Town have received preschool education. Sister Tan Ling began to prepare to open a branch park in a nearby town, and joined the Beijing Preschool Education Group to receive advanced educational concepts and management experience. Several surrounding sub-parks have been opened one after another.
It is obvious to all that the local education bureau also invited Tan's sisters to help manage the public kindergartens in the old county. Finally, the government took the lead and simply built a kindergarten in the village, so that a village of 5,000 people finally had its own kindergarten, and all the children in the village could go to the kindergarten nearby.
I asked Director Tan about the proportion of children receiving preschool education in local official education data. "80% will definitely be reached, and only a few particularly remote areas can't reach it."
When we talk about the difference between urban children and rural children, Tan Yuanchang said that urban children are mostly surrounded by their parents, and their ideas are avant-garde and easy to accept new things. The children in the city are also lively and cheerful, while the children in their local countryside are mostly left-behind children. Their parents work outside and don't often go home. Many children are quiet and impatient. They just come to kindergarten and need a lot of time to adapt and open their hearts. Many children prefer kindergarten after a period of time. Kindergarten teachers have two names: teacher and teacher mother. At the same time, Director Tan also mentioned that children in rural areas will have stronger physical fitness and self-care ability.
Compared with her own kindergarten, she feels that the city is rich in resources and has the best software and hardware conditions, which is definitely not available in this village, but rural education has always had an enterprising heart. We join educational institutions in Beijing and often study, hoping to gradually shorten the distance between rural preschool education and urban preschool education and give our children a better and more interesting childhood.
Speaking of the current predicament of kindergartens, it is in modern management. At present, the daily management and communication with parents in several kindergartens are still in the handwriting stage, and they communicate by WeChat telephone. Kindergarten needs a set of campus management software, covering daily campus management, class management, school bus operation and other functions, which can save most of the time.
Talking about the future of happy families, Director Tan hopes that happy family kindergartens can enter more rural areas and provide better preschool education for left-behind children in mountain villages. "
I wish Happy Jia Kindergarten a bright future, and I wish the kind Tan sisters all the best.