CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — The competition started in second grade for DJ Wang’s son.
in Wuhan , a provincial capital in central China. While kindergarten and first grade were relatively carefree, the homework assignments started piling up in second grade.“You went from traveling lightly to carrying a very heavy burden,” Wang said. “That sudden switch, it was very hard to bear.”flocking to Thailand for its quality international schools and more relaxed lifestyle.
Du Xuan of Vision Education says parents coming to Chiang Mai fall into two types: Those who planned in advance what education they want for their kids, and those who experienced difficulties with the competitive Chinese education system. The majority are from the second group, she said. Wang said his son William was praised by his second-grade teacher in Wuhan as gifted, but to stand out in a class of 50 kids and continue towould mean giving money and gifts to the teacher, which other parents were already doing before he was even aware of the need.
In Thailand, Rodney, who's about to start 8th grade, has taken up acoustic guitar and piano, and carries around a notebook to learn new English vocabulary — all of it his own choice, Jiang said. “He’d ask me to add an hour of English tutoring. I thought his schedule was too full, and he told me, ‘I want to try and see if it’s OK.’”
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