Chinese families camp out for 5 days to get children enrolled at kindergarten

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Chinese families camp out for 5 days to get children enrolled at kindergarten
Luo Wangshu
China Daily

BEIJING: -- Parents and grandparents camped outside a kindergarten in Beijing for five days and nights to ensure getting a place when registration opened on Saturday.

Liu Jipan's granddaughter is 2 years old and expects to start kindergarten in September 2016. To guarantee a place for her, the 64-year-old retired worker slept in a tent for five nights - even though his home is just a five-minute walk away.

Registration began at 9 am on Saturday, but Liu arrived at the kindergarten at 8 am five days earlier. Even so, there were already 80 people ahead of him in the line. The kindergarten was offering 100 places for the coming semester.

"Luckily, the days were not that cold," Liu said, adding that he still brought a thick blanket to sleep under in his tent.

More than 100 parents and grandparents lined up for places at the kindergarten.

"Brown's is our first choice because it is in our residential block. It is very convenient to pick the girl up and drop her off at school," Liu said.

"I don't really know the quality of Brown's. But if many people were lining up for it, it might be good," he said.

On Saturday morning, parents were crowded in front of the kindergarten gate. They were separated by parent volunteers who created a safety fire line. "One parent in the fire line," a volunteer shouted as he guided the line.

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-- ANN 2015-05-25

[FangFerang]

If many people were lining up for it, it might be good. What the hell?

Rich Chinese would have just made a phone call, or had one of their indentured servants sleep in line.

[krisb]

Hard to believe they formed a queue.

[maidee]

happens in western countries also

but still, they deceide to import uneducated masses that takes the place of taxpayers children