#1...it is a kindergarden after all, do you expect them to learn Physics there? Become grammitical genius after 2 months? Chinese folks place too much expectations upon their children and when they dont see immediate results, who do they blame?? It must be the teacher's fault my kids is dumb as rocks, It sure isnt the lead paint chips he eats everyday.

I don't remember; search the Beijing Kids forum for Eton and you should be able to find it.

Assuming it hasn't been deleted, which is very possible.

This was a good 3-4 months ago when I saw it there.

here's the story, from what i can tell: A parent got enraged because their child got hurt on the playground.

Parent then went on a rampage to discredit the entire school chain, with the same kind of intensity of those people who post all day about Daniel Brenar.

Parent has long ago left China

You could be right, admin, but take a look at that website; she seems more than reasonable and she's added links to many, many complaints from Chinese parents.

Yes, she might be displaying robertfail-style stalker tendencies, but she's clearly much more skilled at it.

Are all these parents "on a rampage"?

Still, I'm well aware that parents will complain about the most trivial of things. If that was the end of it, I'd probably be inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

But going out of their way to block a website that criticizes them is the scary part of this story. They've lost all credibility with me whatsoever by doing this.

^ there may be more to the story than that, but I am unaware of it ...

Who are the managers/owners? I mean, foreign or Chinese? I'm guessing Chinese...

Or they are very good at cleaning up online criticisms. I think that much was already proved by their being able to block that one anti-Eton website within China.

By the way, Huanchu, you do realize PWanker is our Robbie, don't you? No good can come from engaging him.

You can dig into any school and you'll find sh*t that has happened.

It's often the case that "school reviews" are exaggerated and often emotionally motivated. I don't trust them. There are always two sides of a story.

More often than not, school reviews deal with complicated conflicts that you need to have observed yourself in order to make a fair judgment. A school review just isn't that good unless it's a real school report, written by professionals whose job is to evaluate schools. So take reviews and warnings with a grain of salt.

Personally, i think it's better to do it the other way around: Look for recommended schools.

I remember reading quite a few a while back.

I have a more logical reason - a good chunk of the worlds largest websites, including blogging platforms by one of the largest corporations on earth and the worlds most popular social networking site are blocked in china. In fact thousands of sites that are inaccesible here are not blocked due to their own content but rather because they are hosted on a server/ip that is blocked.

I seriously doubt the people who run the great firewall bother with individual blocking requests.

What is really strange is that this is a conspiracy thread and pi hasn't posted. Think Eton got to him? Maybe turned him...or worse?

in the interest of journalism, I'd like to ask:

Six teachers?

That's a massive number of anonymous sources.

Are you telling me that six different people -- all of whom have been "ripped off" and speak of "classroom atrocities" -- will say the place is sh*t but not one of them is willing to speak on the record about it?

Suspicious. Or a wildly coincidental streak of mass cowardice.

got 'em on the rats, though