Most of China's kindergartens are illegal and unlicensed, and that can be fatal for kids
Earlier this month, two Chinese girls aged 5 and 6 were killed after eating yogurt laced with rat poison. It was revealed later that the yogurt had been poisoned and planted by two staffers at a rival kindergarten hoping to damage the reputation of the girls' school.
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How low can YOU limbo?
I read that too. Talk about cut-throat business!
That is completely tasteless humor man. Even I would never stoop that low! Sorry man, this is too sick for me to even try to be flippant. People have lost their minds.
That is a terrible story. How could someone kill children to make a business prosper? That is really a reversal of priorities.
Some jerk says, 'How low can YOU limbo?' and then attacks another guy for being 'flippant'. FFS. How stupid can people get?
Illegal and ulicensed is a broad term for China compared to the West, maybe but in Chinese terms I would say they are in the gray area.
If they are illegal it would be very easy to shut them down for the competition, so you wouldn't have to kill anyone.
In terms of the education business in China, probably internationally speaking it is by far the toughest, cruelest, and most aggressive.
In my term as manager in the mid-level and upper level I have experienced things that really changed me. How low people can get for personal gain not just financially.
There are spies out there thugs and other illegal services that have no other purpose to ruin, badmouth or intimidate other schools.
I have been in two, of what is considered to be, the toughest businesses in the world and I never experienced the same amount of cruelty than in the education field.
I feel sorry for the kids and the poor parents of those children. Can't imagine what it must be like to loose your kids so that another school has a few more students or less competition.
Although I think humour is a good way to deal with this tragedy, either seriousness or humour won't bring those kids back. Plus it didn't sound like the jokes were pulled at the expense of the kids and their families but rather at the business or how the education field is running here in China. And to be honest in the latter case humor is the only thing that keeps you sane in it.
Dazzer, as much as I hate to agree with you, you're right.
For all you folks out there trying to make it in the kindergarten business... break a leg!
