This kindergarten is a local girl who goes out to work. Her heart is attached to her hometown. There are no kindergartens for children there, so she resolutely quit her high-paying job in the city and went back to her hometown to start from scratch!
Time went back 2 years ago. In 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 higher than that in 1 yuan. At that time, the income was very considerable. For a girl in her early twenties, she has this job and can live like many girls in the city. But why did she quit her job and return to her hometown?
It turns out that when Tan Ling was young, there was never a kindergarten in her hometown. Until the 199s, her childhood was only in preschool, and her children could only receive preschool education when they were 6 7 years old. 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-to start 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 go to a job with insecure income and great risks. But now that she has decided, support her to do it. So, in those days, all the usable wood in the house became tables, chairs and the simplest wood toys in a few days.
All the equipment and toys were available, and then the house was rented, and the procedures were finally approved. In this way, the first private kindergarten in the history of Jindong Town was opened, and the nursery kindergarten was named at that time.
It was like a big news to have a kindergarten in the town, which was a big event in that year. It was so fresh that all the eight villages in Shili were spread. It's good that some people pay attention, but not many people can accept it.
In this way, the kindergarten officially opened, with an area of 3 square meters. Starting with several children, Tan Ling was the only one inside and outside the kindergarten. Slowly a dozen people, twenty people. One had nearly 3 children by the end of the first semester. How much was the admission fee at that time? One semester in 15 yuan. I don't go to 3 yuan every month.
In order to reduce expenses, my mother helps with cooking, and my newly graduated sister Tan Mei (the protagonist of this interview) helps my sister with the children. With the efforts of the whole family, by the end of the second half of the semester, more than 8 children have been reached. Kindergarten has also expanded from the previous 3 square meters to 8 square meters. With the gradual acceptance of parents, the kindergarten has grown to more than 12 children.
Entrepreneurship is hard, and it is for the brave! Such a good time is not long. In the second year, a new policy was introduced, and all primary schools set up kindergarten classes, which are public! All of a sudden, from more than one 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, and her arms couldn't twist her thighs ...
From the policy point of view, this is the first time that public kindergartens and private kindergartens have fair competition. From the resource point of view, public kindergartens have absolute advantages, control the core resources, and can effectively and accurately convey information and master the general entrance to primary schools. Private kindergartens, on the other hand, only win the reputation of the common people by teaching the children well.
Entrepreneurship has once again returned to the original point. Tan Ling, who is unwilling, once again has the courage to make progress bit by bit, and the number of students has increased one by one. What is different this time is that many parents have turned 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 growing step by step.
Recalling this episode, Tan Ling thanked herself for her original choice and persistence.
In the following years, the kindergarten's career got better little by little, which was the result of the sisters and the whole family's all-out efforts. To what extent does this go all out? Tan Mei recalled a past event, which is still fresh in the memory of women.
There were only Tan Ling and Tan Ling in early kindergartens. At that time, there were almost no preschool teachers in rural areas. Tan Mei had been at work from pregnancy to delivery. She and her sister each took care of dozens of children. It was September 2, the second day of school. The new children in kindergartens were not used to crying and needed to be coaxed all the time. Today was very laborious.
By 1 o'clock in the morning, Tan Mei found that his amniotic fluid was broken and running down his leg. Sister told her to go to the hospital quickly, which is very dangerous. Tan Mei didn't trust the children in this class, and felt that he could persist. He just waited until noon to put the children to sleep before going to the hospital. Although both the mother and the baby were safe in the end, the doctor told her that it was dangerous for her to do so.
For some time, many parents wanted to send their children here, but they didn't have time to send them, so Tan Ling rode a motorcycle to pick them up, and once again fell down with her children on rainy days, regardless of her injuries, to see if the children were safe. In the future, motorcycles could not meet the demand, so they bought a second-hand van to pick up the children together in the morning, so that they could also receive the students who lived far away.
Tan Mei, a mother, continues to run a kindergarten with her sister, with more and more students, and the venue of the kindergarten has been moved four times in a row because of the increase of students. The kindergarten is getting bigger and bigger, and the two people are getting busier and busier. The more energy they put into their work, the less they take care of their families. Tan Mei always burst into tears when she mentioned her children. She can only stay with her children for one day a week, and she lives in the kindergarten at other times. Once, the kindergarten organized a spring outing, and Tan Mei took the children and parents of the kindergarten and her own son. Because it was an outdoor activity, Tan Mei's attention was always on the children of the kindergarten, and his son asked his mother, "Mom, why did you hold their hands and not mine once?" Tan Mei fought back tears and told his son, "You are old enough to take care of yourself, and your brothers and sisters need more care." When he mentioned his son, Tan Mei felt that he owed a lot to his children.
This is a common phenomenon among preschool education entrepreneurs. They take risks and carry pressure, and their minds and bodies can't relax for a moment.
I can't help wondering when I hear this. I still have some time after work every day, so I can always go home and see my children, right? When I asked the director about his daily routine, I understood.
The director of Tan Mei for ten years always gets up at 5 o'clock every day and arrives at work at 6 o'clock. The lover and children live in the urban area 3 kilometers away from the town. If they run such a long distance every day, they will be unable to eat both energy and physical strength. I sincerely feel that it is not easy to hear this!
Kindergartens in Jindong Town are getting bigger and bigger, and 8% of children in Jindong Town have received preschool education. Sister Tan Ling began to prepare to open a branch park in nearby villages and towns, and also joined Beijing Preschool Education Group to receive advanced educational concepts and management experience. Several sub-parks in the surrounding areas have been opened one after another.
Such a good kindergarten has been opened, and the local education bureau has also attracted great attention. It also invited Tan's sisters to help manage the public kindergartens in the old county village. Finally, the government took the lead in simply building a kindergarten in the village, so that a village of 5, people finally had its own kindergarten, and all the children in the village could start kindergartens nearby.
I asked Director Tan Yuan, what percentage of children here receive preschool education in local official education data? "8% is definitely achieved, but it can't be achieved in some particularly remote areas."
When we talked about the difference between urban children and rural children, Director Tan said that most of the children in the city are surrounded by their parents, and their parents are more avant-garde and receptive to new things. Urban children are also more lively and cheerful, while most of the children in their local rural areas are left behind. Their parents work outside and don't often go home, and many children don't like to talk. Many children prefer kindergarten after a period of time, and kindergarten teachers have two names: teacher and teacher mother. At the same time, Director Tan also mentioned that children in rural areas will be stronger in physical quality and self-care.
Compared with her own kindergarten, she thinks that the resources in the city are rich and the conditions of software and hardware are the best, which is definitely not available in this village, but the education in the countryside has always had an enterprising heart. We join educational institutions in Beijing and often study in the hope of gradually shortening the distance between rural preschool education and urban preschool education and giving children a better and more interesting childhood.
Talking about the current difficulties of kindergartens, it is in the aspect of modern management. At present, the daily management and communication with parents in several kindergartens are still in the handwriting stage, and the kindergartens need 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.
When talking about Huanlejia's future, Director Tan hopes Huanlejia Kindergarten can enter more rural areas and provide better preschool education for left-behind children in mountain villages. "
I wish Huanlejia Kindergarten a bright future and all the best for the kind Tan sisters.