Anonymous wrote:Perhaps OP benefits from exchange students that pay to live with families. Perhaps OP represents exchange student company. There are plenty of other counties that can support exchange students.

There has been so much begging for host families across my social media and listserves the past three months. I really think they should consider some working class homes in order to provide a more authentic experience. Most American teens aren’t living in upper middle class suburban homes.

Perhaps OP benefits from exchange students that pay to live with families. Perhaps OP represents exchange student company. There are plenty of other counties that can support exchange students.

Anonymous wrote:Eh, not sure there is much need for exchange students in the whole DC area, much less MoCo. Plenty of diversity and pieple from different countries here already. Pretty hard to get worked up about OP. They would make more difference in Kansas or Kentucky or Wisconsin.

That is true. However we have to realize that this is not a program that only benefits MCPS. The exchange students themselves would need to be interested in coming too. It would be reasonable to assume that people would be more interested in coming here rather than to Kansas for an exchange program.

Eh, not sure there is much need for exchange students in the whole DC area, much less MoCo. Plenty of diversity and pieple from different countries here already. Pretty hard to get worked up about OP. They would make more difference in Kansas or Kentucky or Wisconsin.

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Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

The students from different cultures who are already in our schools usually tend to congregate with people of their own cultures. This is their comfort level. Many of them were forced to come here because of terrible issues in their home countries.

Exchange students who come here are coming to expand their horizons and expect to be outside their comfort zones. They will be going back to their home countries as ambassadors of US culture and education systems. They are also high achieving and usually do not fall within ESOL, FARMS or Special Ed categories. They do not congregate with people just like them.

There is big difference between these two kinds of students.

students from different cultures tend to congregate with people of their own cultures. That is just nature. It has nothing to do with wild guesses like "Many of them were forced to come here because of terrible issues in their home countries".

Exchange students are the same.

So the only difference would be how many students from another culture we have in our schools.

The most dominant "foreign" cultures in most of our schools are either Asian or Hispanic. Exchange students from these cultures will not make much of a difference.
If you have exchange students from other "rare" cultures. that could really add something.

Also I see no reason to assume that "exchange students do not fall within ESOL". Unless they are from a English speaking country, most times they would need some help on that part - I don't know if MCPS put them in EsOL programs or not though.
FAMRS? probably not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

The students from different cultures who are already in our schools usually tend to congregate with people of their own cultures. This is their comfort level. Many of them were forced to come here because of terrible issues in their home countries.

Exchange students who come here are coming to expand their horizons and expect to be outside their comfort zones. They will be going back to their home countries as ambassadors of US culture and education systems. They are also high achieving and usually do not fall within ESOL, FARMS or Special Ed categories. They do not congregate with people just like them.

There is big difference between these two kinds of students.

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Why would it be deleted PP? Because it is the truth? Give me a break.

We have plenty of illegal exchange students. Oh, wait. They don't exchange anything. Just feed off our taxes and keep our incomes down.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

The students from different cultures who are already in our schools usually tend to congregate with people of their own cultures. This is their comfort level. Many of them were forced to come here because of terrible issues in their home countries.

Exchange students who come here are coming to expand their horizons and expect to be outside their comfort zones. They will be going back to their home countries as ambassadors of US culture and education systems. They are also high achieving and usually do not fall within ESOL, FARMS or Special Ed categories. They do not congregate with people just like them.

There is big difference between these two kinds of students.

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Oh, ok!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

The students from different cultures who are already in our schools usually tend to congregate with people of their own cultures. This is their comfort level. Many of them were forced to come here because of terrible issues in their home countries.

Exchange students who come here are coming to expand their horizons and expect to be outside their comfort zones. They will be going back to their home countries as ambassadors of US culture and education systems. They are also high achieving and usually do not fall within ESOL, FARMS or Special Ed categories. They do not congregate with people just like them.

There is big difference between these two kinds of students.

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Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

The students from different cultures who are already in our schools usually tend to congregate with people of their own cultures. This is their comfort level. Many of them were forced to come here because of terrible issues in their home countries.

Exchange students who come here are coming to expand their horizons and expect to be outside their comfort zones. They will be going back to their home countries as ambassadors of US culture and education systems. They are also high achieving and usually do not fall within ESOL, FARMS or Special Ed categories. They do not congregate with people just like them.

There is big difference between these two kinds of students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

i know you jest but when I went to magruder we had exchange students from NZ, Hungary, Germany , etc. the kiwi guy is the only kiwi I’ve ever met

DP. At my child's ES there is a kid from Tajikistan, a kid from Ghana, a kid from Kenya, a kid from Bulgaria - and those are just children DC is good friends with! There's an International Night every year at our school. MCPS has many problems, and, in my humble opinion, not having enough exchange students isn't the most pressing of them.

This ain't Ohio, for better or for worse.

This. I started keep track a few years ago. In just 6 years at one MCPS middle, I taught students from every continent except Antarctica and over 100 countries. You can also do virtual exchanges over the Internet. A coworker taught seven lessons to a class in India.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

i know you jest but when I went to magruder we had exchange students from NZ, Hungary, Germany , etc. the kiwi guy is the only kiwi I’ve ever met

DP. At my child's ES there is a kid from Tajikistan, a kid from Ghana, a kid from Kenya, a kid from Bulgaria - and those are just children DC is good friends with! There's an International Night every year at our school. MCPS has many problems, and, in my humble opinion, not having enough exchange students isn't the most pressing of them.

This ain't Ohio, for better or for worse.

Anonymous wrote:what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

i know you jest but when I went to magruder we had exchange students from NZ, Hungary, Germany , etc. the kiwi guy is the only kiwi I’ve ever met

what's the big deal?

Quoted from the article:

“Exchange students teach us to communicate across cultures, a life skill that we all need to navigate today’s increasingly interconnected world,” Gordy said. “Please develop a better policy that enables me to continue interacting with exchange students in my last year of high school, and allows all students across the county to learn and grow from exchange students in the years ahead.”

MCPS already has many different cultures in their schools. Why do we need foreign exchange students to teach us to communicate across different cultures?

Due to overcrowding in the county’s schools . exchange students should just illegally enter the USA then the county will make them a top priority https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/foreign-exchange-students-will-be-barred-from-18-high-schools-next-year/