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Zhang Tong Jia Yuan is working to narrow the regional education gap in China

  • China
  • 5 min read
  • Oct 08, 2018
  • By Hua Nan

©Zhang Tong Jia Yuan

This startup started with the objective of relieving parental concerns about child safety in kindergarten but has since set its sights much higher

When faculty at Beijing’s RYB Kindergarten were accused of child abuse in late 2017, parents began to worry more about their children’s safety at school. RYB is a high-end kindergarten run by a New York-listed company, so, despite the fact it was not the first time abuse had occurred in a Chinese kindergarten in recent history, the public was particularly incensed.
The scandal made Ye Renqian think of an afternoon he had picked his daughter up from her kindergarten three years earlier. The school guard didn’t know who he was but let him take his daughter home anyway. This...

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Edited by Wendy Lovinger , Wang Xiao'e

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