[Tagging] Kindergarten, Childcare and Preschool

[Serge Wroclawski]

This is one of those areas where we are all just splitting the
definitions in complex ways.

What is a day care, and what is a "real school"? That depends on your
definition of the terms. You can skip down to my proposed solutions if
you already agree with me. If you don't yet, here are my reasons:

1. We can't use age, because age isn't universal across countries.

2. We can't use the length of the class/instruction/program because
that will differ too

3. We can't use whether or not it's government run/offered, because in
some European countries, they offer day care for infants

4. We can't even necessarily use the idea of "instruction", because
this is also extremely cultural, and even within a single country, you
often find different ideas

So we need a solution. I'm going to suggest two:

1.  We keep the tags uniform but we localize the meanings

Day care, nursery school, kindergarten. We know what these terms mean,
so let's use them in whatever way is natural for the mapper.

Benefits: This will be good in that it's simple and natural.
Downsides: It's going to make data processing very tricky though,
especially across areas.

2. We keep the tags uniform, but we localize the definitions in our editors

An editor shows "Kindgerten" but the tags specify that it's a school,
for age 5 (this would be the US definition).

Benefits: It's easy to parse, easy and standard to define, easy to
process. Downsides: It's going to be work to define this for each
language, and it's not something we could automate.

I've added a bunch of day care and school objects over the years and
have no strong feeling about how they're tagged, so long as the
tagging is relatively uniform.

- Serge