Public Schools Recruiting Foreign Students

[ilbegone]

Two things here.

One is the word "tuition". Perhaps they plan on bankrolling our whacked out education system by charging tuition to foreign students.

The other, and maybe comparing apples to oranges (what are the standards for grades), is the fact that that foreigners come to our country unfamiliar with our culture and perhaps not understanding everything said in class get A's and B's while the local kids do poorly on state mandated standardized tests.

[Kathy63]

I doubt the Chinese students will like it. For one thing they absolutely not will get the quality of education they are used to getting in China. I doubt it will take more than a few months before these high schoolers realize they aren't getting an education but instead are being filled with pablum like self-esteem, sex ed and tolerance.

Chinese families HERE don't rely on our education or lack of it, they have supplemental schools with serious work. I know a LOT of Chinese families who think public school is a total waste of time that just has to be worked around, not with.

My half brother married a Chinese woman who brought her 14 year old daughter here. The girl is despondent over the lack of education she's getting in her Colorado school. She feels like the possibility of a future is being taken from her. Needless to say, her grade in self-esteem has fallen.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Spend some time on a UCLA campus and you'll see a huge amount of Asians about 40% of the campus. Most are foreigners from mainland China and speak Mandarin. My dorm was about 35% (of 350 students) Chinese and they did everything from steal food to dishes and anything they could get away with. When they were caught they just pretended they didn't understand that it couldn't be shared as it is in communist China.

All school love the foreign students because of the high tuition they pay (but of course that doesn't include the illegals!!) Santa Monica College has recruited foreign students for as long as I can remember, so at least 40 yrs. They do get students from around the world and their foreign student population is much more divers than UCLA.

A huge problem, that the schools themselves created, is that our primary schools are not teaching students to be prepared for higher learning and thus don't qualify for the higher academics. Whereas foreign countries are doing a much better job. Our schools here in Calif are so flooded with an uneducated class of illegals, anchors and gang members the teachers (who may not be that qualified in the first place) struggle to even get part of the basics taught. A teaching credential is one of the easiest degrees to obtain now and very often the tuition and school loans are forgiven. It's a sweet deal to go after a teaching credential today.

Businesses complain that there aren't enough skilled or educated workers coming out of our schools and often hire foreigners to teach at our universities. Another reason the foreigners are hired is they will work for less just to get a foot in the door with a visa.

We need to get a handle on our schools because this is really destroying the fabric of our country apart. Our citizens are being short changed as the liberal academia turns to the rest of the world as their great cause in promoting "diversity".