Yeah seems you have to pay more for your kids to have more playtime and theoretically spend less time learning; and less money to go to public kindergarten and sit in class all day and learn with little playtime.

The better Waldorf is 2800/month. Expensive, but the teachers were friendly, not many kids, only 9 so far as it's relatively new, but at that price I feel I'd rather get my son into a bilingual school. The Montessori is run by a mixed race couple, I've friended the Chinese woman on Facebook and just waiting for her contact details before I know more about the Montessori school.

The Waldorf school I visited today is in 云康园. Would not recommend the other I visited. Still don't have an address for the Montessori school, still trying to get contact details for the school.

Well so far I've checked 2 Waldorf schools, one is nasty the other just OK. My son gets English exposure at home, and I'm a native speaker, I can probably teach him better English than he'll ever learn in kindergarten, it's just living in China I feel he lacks decent exposure to western culture. I've yet to go look at the Montessori schools I know of. I'm just curious where mixed race kids, are foreign kids are going to kindergarten and how the parents feel about these schools.

Do any of the foreigners here have kindergarten recommendations? Preferably in the north of Kunming. Bilingual (English & Chinese) is a bonus, but not essential. Also preferably foreign run as well. We're inclined towards Waldorf and Montessori education, but also not essential. The most important is I don't want my kids stuck in the classroom all day, the school should give the kids lots of play time.