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hi Krithika and everybody...

as i told you i will post some more information regarding schooling for the foreigner children. Yesterday, i talk to one of my friend residing near Sanghai, her daughter is in second grade studying in international school. Teachers are good, all from english speaking countries, but the main thing i asked about the fee, i was totally surprised to know that for kindergarten kid fee is nearly twenty thousand USD. I don't know about US, but i feel this is too much. Anyone if knows about US fee let me know. I will keep posting if i get any information.

Hi Padma,

The amount you've quoted is astronomical !!

I send both my kids to public school here and the fees is $0 ! We need to buy the school supplies ( like pens,notebooks,papers.binders and backpack etc) Other than that, it is optional to pay for the fund raisers and donation.

For Middle schools (6th-8th) they charge fees for laptop, science lab, gym uniform ...that is all ...it all amounts to less than $100. No idea about high school since my first son is still in 7th grade.

Public schools have good standards ( as far as I've seen in the west coast and east coast) . We've usually moved into neigborhoods that have very good school districts.

As far as I know, private schools charge an average amount of $1000 per month for each child.

Mostly, I've seen Indian families sending kids to public school from kinder garten till 12th grade.The kids are enrolled in KG from 5 years. Before they need to be admitted to preschools.

Of course, we need to pay for preschools/playschools/daycare (again the fees differ for community run preschools and private ones)

Cheers
Krithika

hi Krithika....

thanks for telling about US. I got to know these figures from one of our indian friend whose daughter is studying, i was shocked to know this.....its really something huge amount. I think one reason may be china don't have many international schools, if they have then they have very limited number of students. International schools appoint teachers from native english speaking countries. This may be one of the reasons for such a high fee. US is already an english speaking country so they hardly need to call teachers from other countries. International schools in china are totally depending on america or europe continent to get teachers for their schools.

Wow! i'm learning more about China in this thread than anywhere else. thanks to all who have provided very interesting facts about China.
lalitha