3 different Preschools

My first observation was that the Chinese preschool students were sent to boarding schools during the whole week, except Wednesday and the weekends. As we watched in the video there were kids who had many issues leaving their parents, and questioned their memories as to picking them up on Wednesday. As the one child at Don-feng Preschool could no let her father leave. This lead me to question the children's current relationship with the parents, as well as what their future relationship would look like. Especially if it would suffer when reaching an older age. I also began to wonder about the children's relationship with other children. School can be a large growing ground for the expansion of social skills. Due to this environment did students have better social skills? I think as an older child a boarding school is appropriate but at such a young age children still need to be taken care of by their parents, the Chinese however feel that this is not an important factor. I really value the beginning relationship at a young age that children can begin to have while living at home with their parents.

Another observation I made was the difference in discipline within the schools. In the preschool in Japan the teacher did nothing when a student continued to act out and distract the class but in a preschool in America the teacher gave the student a warning and then puts them in a "time outs" if they continue to act out. This gives me the idea that Japanese schools focus on teaching their students self control and make the behavior of an individual the responsibility of the entire group and in America, schools focus on verbally expressing frustrations and desires and taking time to develop a plan that will best handle the situation. I feel that this is then reflected into the culture, Americans seem to be more outspoken and proud of expressing our personal beliefs. Americans are taught to work hard to stand out and be different while China and Japan promote the well being of the nation over the advancement of an individual.