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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a foreign based student at a US university and the school is going full, online, then the students must leave the US and do the courses elsewhere.

This is incredibly sad for a lot of students who did all the right things and may not have the resources or ability in their home country, to take online courses - [b]no computer or internet[/b] or govt restrictions on G-Suite etc.

And for the US schools, it is an incredible financial burden.[/quote]

How could they have no computer or internet if they have the money to come to the US to study?  [/quote]

There are places where Internet is politically or geographically unavailable / unreliable, regardless of your money. Sometimes it is restricted certain hours, which is a problem if your class meets on Eastern Standard Time. Or they may have gotten here via scholarship, community fundraising, or relative's bequest.

[b]My SIL works at a SLAC and some of her foreign students are not safe to go home after becoming "westernized" or because they are gay.  They would not have family support even if the family is rich[/b].[/quote]

Re: the bold, this is my fear for some of my DC's SLAC classmates. They stayed on campus throughout the spring and summer, some because their home countries were rife with coronavirus and they were safer at this college both from the virus and from social structures and mores that would cause them to basically live underground at home -- at best. At worst they could be rejected by families or physically abused.

Horrible, horrible call by ICE. Many of these students could live in their colleges' dorms even if campus was officially closed and all learning was distance learning. That is how it worked over the spring semester and summer too. ICE didn't throw them out of the country then. But now, someone in the administration has gotten hold of the fact that there were, gasp!, foreign students in America doing online courses. God help those kids. [/quote]

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