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I am interested in opening up a foreign language day care center in Apex/Cary, North Carolina. I see pre-school poping up quickly, but most are based on school calendar which is not very accomodating to working parents. I'd like to distinguish mine by offering a year-round Chinese langauge immersion program. It is important to learn a foreign language from a very young age. The center teaches kids Chinese and only conerses in Chinese. I'd like to start a forum to see if there would be a need or interest for such a specialty day care in this area. Welcome any ideas or suggestions!
There used to be pre-school called Language Tots (on Old Apex Rd., Cary) that offered foreign language in its program, however I understand it closed in June 2011.
I would definitely send my kids to such a school. I've been lamenting for awhile that there doesn't seem to be an language immersion programs for Asian languages in this area. I would maybe tour schools like Spanish for Fun to get an idea of how their programs work and what the price ranges tend to be.
I know there is such a preschool in Durham or Chapel Hill--might want to investigate what they offer and how many students they have, etc as a business model. I'm sure SW Wake cty could benefit from such a school as well, but you'd want to do some market research before investing in something so specialized. You can contact the Small Business/Technology Development Center for free business counseling and market research (I used to work there).
Last time I drove by it looked like it may be back in operation and no longer for sale. It's on Old Apex Road if you want to take a drive and see if maybe I'm mistaken.
Last time I drove by it looked like it may be back in operation and no longer for sale. It's on Old Apex Road if you want to take a drive and see if maybe I'm mistaken.
thx a ton for the response if you see any other place keep me in mind...
I know there is such a preschool in Durham or Chapel Hill--might want to investigate what they offer and how many students they have, etc as a business model. I'm sure SW Wake cty could benefit from such a school as well, but you'd want to do some market research before investing in something so specialized. You can contact the Small Business/Technology Development Center for free business counseling and market research (I used to work there).
Yeah. Little Panda in Durham is an immersion program.
I think it's possible that it would do well in Cary. There's a large Chinese population here. I have to wonder if it would do well under anything but Chinese or Taiwanese management, though.
You should think about opening in western ch, hillsborough or maybe even mebane. There are more and mire asians moving that way and its an open market for what your trying to do
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