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[quote=Anonymous]I get what they mean but lol at the snide "no behavior issues in the schools in our home countries" dig. So they mean either everyone in their countries are rich, or those countries don't have any diversity or immigrants (at least not any poor immigrants who get to attend schools with other kids), and/or that kids with mental health issues or learning disabilities aren't allowed to attend schools alongside their neurotypical peers.

Congrats, I guess? But with all due respect, might I suggest that maybe America isn't the place for you, even temporarily, since we have kids who fall in all those categories but still think they should feel as welcome in our schools as everyone else.

(Do I understand the general idea they're getting at, minus the subtle bigotry? obviously, and to the extent it's possible to find schools that do a good job dealing with these issues, great. But let's be real about what "behavior issues that we don't have in our home countries means," because what it means is that there is a 100% chance the person saying it comes from an obscenely wealthy country, an absurdly homogenous country, or a country that doesn't even try to educate all its citizens (or at least, not in anything approaching an equal way.) Period. Seriously, name a country (let alone countrIES) with NO behavior problems in its schools that doesn't fit in one or more of the above categories.

Anyway, I wouldn't appreciate the OP's sentiment coming from, say, an old money Greenwich WASP, and I don't find it any less offensive when it comes wrapped up in a snobbish, subtly anti-American/anti-immigrant international bow.[/quote]

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