He'll also go back to Germany and criticize the way things are there, how his peers are, etc. and extol the virtues of America and what people do here and how young Americans are so much better with X Y Z.

It's just his personality, don't take it personally.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"- School is laughably easy
- Curriculum is substandard,
- School year is very short
- Instruction is substandard,
- No real testing,
- No textbooks,
- Massive grade inflation,
- Incompetent and burnt out teachers / stupid, checked-out and uneducated parents
- STEM and Foreign Languages are very poorly taught by incompetent teachers
- Students are disruptive and there is poor discipline in the classroom
- Students are not differentiated
- No one fails. It is a conveyor belt system, which is producing illiterate students. School is childcare.
- The only kids who are actually learning and thriving are being supplemented at home.

- Immigrant mom. "

Then if you smart enough, there is really no reason you decided to be an “immigrant mom”.

That immigrant mom is here because America's immigration system is very lax. She isnt' able to park herself nor her family in European countries where the academic standards are indeed higher. But she is afraid of the competition in her own country and perhaps her chiildren couldn't cut it back home.

True. My kids are super achievers in a sea of idiots. Make hay while the sun shines and all that. Also, we can speak English but not not other foreign languages. So we go to places where we can speak English. USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand etc. Trying to learn German and Spanish too...but Chinese is hard.

If your children are like mom in character, they will hit a ceiling no matter their degree. My Stanford PhD sibling topped out in their 40s. People just did not like working nor networking with them.
And neither did siblings spouse and kids. This kind of acerbic and entitled personality estranged them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is correct but you can also ask him to point out what great German startups are IPOing next year so you can inform your investment advisor and wait while he is silent.

This is so true. I’ve heard that one thing that American schools teach much better than European schools is critical thinking and how to be creative.

America does seem to be ahead of the world on innovation in the past 100 years.

Critical thinking without actually knowing any background knowledge of what you’re talking about is what US public schools do. It’s embarrassing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- School is laughably easy
- Curriculum is substandard,
- School year is very short
- Instruction is substandard,
- No real testing,
- No textbooks,
- Massive grade inflation,
- Incompetent and burnt out teachers / stupid, checked-out and uneducated parents
- STEM and Foreign Languages are very poorly taught by incompetent teachers
- Students are disruptive and there is poor discipline in the classroom
- Students are not differentiated
- No one fails. It is a conveyor belt system, which is producing illiterate students. School is childcare.
- The only kids who are actually learning and thriving are being supplemented at home.

- Immigrant mom.

Hopefully you are homeschooling, immigrant mom! Otherwise you should go back to the old country because clearly you are doing your kids a disservice.

DP. I’m not an immigrant, but she is right and these are actually a lot of the reasons I am homeschooling.

Anonymous wrote:He’s from Germany. He 17 and has quite an ego. His English is formal, but excellent and he also speaks German and Spanish fluently.
He’s not taking any math or science classes while he’s here because he doesn’t like those subjects.
He comes home from school every day telling me how the Americans can’t read, don’t know geography, history etc. I’m really tired of hearing it.
Help me survive this until June!

Tell him about all the stupids in Germany. I was so tired in grad school about all the Brits, French, and Germans doing this. Then I moved to their countries and realized they were just arrogant prigs - stupid people are everywhere. And furthermore, they are stupid for not realizing this, then going to a foreign country and insulting their host.

Its probably just his arrogance personality, he might be the top percentile of his class to be able to do the student exchange, and happen to be placed in the average or bottom US High school.
Hang in there and brush off the topic. June will come fast enough.

I've taught and lived abroad, so have some perspective here.

Yes, American schools are easy compared to the kind of school this teen would have attended, but the converse is that we don't throw up our hands and give up on kids after 13 if we think they aren't "college material."

He's also chosen to avoid the classes where he would be meeting highly motivated peers of the sort he left behind in gymnasium.

Moreover, though, I just really agree with the PP who said it is your job to help with navigate American cultural norms by not being rude.

I assume he wants to live/work abroad as an adult, hence doing a study abroad in HS. I think you can be pretty blunt with him - he will not get far in any field if he cannot or will not at least mimic baseline civility in line with local cultural norms.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My ILs had a German exchange student. He was really annoying.

He wanted to chew gum in a museum when it was not allowed. When asked to remove the gum, he said he thought it was a free country.

Why come if you’re going to be a jerk?

If Americans are so stupid, why watch our movies or TV shows or even visit?

America is big with dumb people and smart people.

I wonder that about American tourists often.

Fair point. Americans can be quite terrible in France with loud talking and shorts and flip flops and a constant need for ketchup.

That doesn’t make them “jerks”

Well gee OP 1/3 of this country is MAGA stupid.

1/3 of this country are NAZI loving garbage.

1/3 of this country is Anti American crap.

Your guest is correct. You are MAGA trash.

You can show him research that emotional ans social knowhow matter more in attaining success and he is failing in that respect

Anonymous wrote:He’s from Germany. He 17 and has quite an ego. His English is formal, but excellent and he also speaks German and Spanish fluently.
He’s not taking any math or science classes while he’s here because he doesn’t like those subjects.
He comes home from school every day telling me how the Americans can’t read, don’t know geography, history etc. I’m really tired of hearing it.
Help me survive this until June!

Tell them to stop! Not hard to do.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- School is laughably easy
- Curriculum is substandard,
- School year is very short
- Instruction is substandard,
- No real testing,
- No textbooks,
- Massive grade inflation,
- Incompetent and burnt out teachers / stupid, checked-out and uneducated parents
- STEM and Foreign Languages are very poorly taught by incompetent teachers
- Students are disruptive and there is poor discipline in the classroom
- Students are not differentiated
- No one fails. It is a conveyor belt system, which is producing illiterate students. School is childcare.
- The only kids who are actually learning and thriving are being supplemented at home.

- Immigrant mom.

Comes off as ungrateful and supercilious. If your country is so much better, head home.

Only Native Americans can tell anyone to go back because this is their country. All the others are just settlers. USA is open for anyone to take over, dumbass!

The only dumbasses are the idiots who vote you ingrates in here. Luckily they are outnumbered and we are sending you lot home to dig s-holes

Not quite

You are counting on the life of one frail old man. Tick, took, tick...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- School is laughably easy
- Curriculum is substandard,
- School year is very short
- Instruction is substandard,
- No real testing,
- No textbooks,
- Massive grade inflation,
- Incompetent and burnt out teachers / stupid, checked-out and uneducated parents
- STEM and Foreign Languages are very poorly taught by incompetent teachers
- Students are disruptive and there is poor discipline in the classroom
- Students are not differentiated
- No one fails. It is a conveyor belt system, which is producing illiterate students. School is childcare.
- The only kids who are actually learning and thriving are being supplemented at home.

- Immigrant mom.

Comes off as ungrateful and supercilious. If your country is so much better, head home.

Only Native Americans can tell anyone to go back because this is their country. All the others are just settlers. USA is open for anyone to take over, dumbass!

The only dumbasses are the idiots who vote you ingrates in here. Luckily they are outnumbered and we are sending you lot home to dig s-holes

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"- School is laughably easy
- Curriculum is substandard,
- School year is very short
- Instruction is substandard,
- No real testing,
- No textbooks,
- Massive grade inflation,
- Incompetent and burnt out teachers / stupid, checked-out and uneducated parents
- STEM and Foreign Languages are very poorly taught by incompetent teachers
- Students are disruptive and there is poor discipline in the classroom
- Students are not differentiated
- No one fails. It is a conveyor belt system, which is producing illiterate students. School is childcare.
- The only kids who are actually learning and thriving are being supplemented at home.

- Immigrant mom. "

Then if you smart enough, there is really no reason you decided to be an “immigrant mom”.

That immigrant mom is here because America's immigration system is very lax. She isnt' able to park herself nor her family in European countries where the academic standards are indeed higher. But she is afraid of the competition in her own country and perhaps her chiildren couldn't cut it back home.

True. My kids are super achievers in a sea of idiots. Make hay while the sun shines and all that. Also, we can speak English but not not other foreign languages. So we go to places where we can speak English. USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand etc. Trying to learn German and Spanish too...but Chinese is hard.

#MAGA

Tell him to find some ice and air conditioning and then come and talk to you!