Alexceptional
[Work & China]: New gov't policy that bans core classes from being learned on the weekend. And some other stuff against children learning before primary school. This is good and bad.
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Small Stars? GONE
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Halle-fucking-luiah
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There's a lot to be said about how little these kids get to be kids since they are shoved into schooling as soon as they are 2 years old
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And just. Live at school. 7 days a week. Call it a training center. It's school. We give homework. It sucks
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We call it "tutorial" not homework, but it's homework
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But cutting out one of the largest, most profitable products that we have...
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So a lot of people are losing their jobs and HQ is a cloud of depression right now and everyone is very on edge
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So on the one hand, thank goodness the gov't stepped in to stop parents going HAM on their kids schooling. But also, the company I am in isn't the only one that's going to struggle to find their feet again
papermint tiger
I'm glad to hear that about the kids, not so much the workplace environment
Alexceptional
I don't know where online schooling falls on all of this
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Ya, this is a mixed bag
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At the moment, we've been told that the product for pre-primary school kids is wrapping up at the end of August
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We're finishing current contracts and not issuing them anymore
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But the bulk of online is primary school and middle school
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Like 60,000 classes a week are primary school, 2,000 are pre-primary, 10,000 are middle school
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So we are REALLY unaffected
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It's mainly the marketing, branding and some of the tech support team that's going
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The ones that specialized in the products for the youngest kids
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They're holding a farewell party of sorts. But it's not a great situation. Like, I want to be mad at the company. But I also know money is going to be ??? until they figure out a replacement product
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And there WILL be a replacement product. Maybe we can't "Teach English" but we can do an extracurricular sport or creative class that still happens to be "Taught in English"
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Which. Part of me is like, that could get ugly. But the other part is like Finally, a push for applied language learning
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So I'm kinda all for it? The kids would really benefit from it, more than "It's a banana"
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And they get to be more like kids and less like robots if they have glue and sparkles or a ball to kick or both at the same time.
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My brain is imagining a relay race where you kick a ball and have to glue something to a wall and then kick the ball back
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My brain only thinks in weird kids' games
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I am programmed
papermint tiger
a summer camp thing could be fun? idk. I say 'summer camp' but it could be year-round of course