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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:28 AM Mar 2020

A woman of my acquaintance just had her daughter accepted to a prestigious private...

high school. But it's the one she applied to that didn't accept her that is the story.

They are both shutting down, but her school offered students who had no safe place to go a safe dorm until the crisis is over, or at least better understood.

The other school demanded that everyone leave, including a large number of Chinese students who they insisted had to go back to China. No tuition refund, or other assistance-- just get out. Sounds inhuman to send them back into the maelstrom.

These Chinese students, btw, pay full freight, allowing girls like my friend's daughter to get generous scholarships.

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A woman of my acquaintance just had her daughter accepted to a prestigious private... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Mar 2020 OP
Is it just Chinese students or all foreign students? Drahthaardogs Mar 2020 #1
Ohio University True Blue American Mar 2020 #2
She said these are high school kids though Drahthaardogs Mar 2020 #3
I know True Blue American Mar 2020 #5
Not sure. But, it seems the problems of moving people around are greater than just... TreasonousBastard Mar 2020 #4
There are no good answers. Trump saw to that Drahthaardogs Mar 2020 #6

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
1. Is it just Chinese students or all foreign students?
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:44 AM
Mar 2020

Because I could understand forcing all foreign students to go home. These are minors. What happensvif they get sick and life or death decisions must bevmade?

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
2. Ohio University
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:47 AM
Mar 2020

Closed the doors for the Semester. Students are to pick up their belongings. Online classes.

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
3. She said these are high school kids though
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:49 AM
Mar 2020

I couldn't imagine a 14 year old sick and thousands of miles from home.

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
5. I know
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:55 AM
Mar 2020

But all are shutting the doors. First it was until March 30TH, now Semester.

Nursing Homes,one visitor a day, now no one.

The Country is finally facing facts, instead of Trump lies.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. Not sure. But, it seems the problems of moving people around are greater than just...
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:54 AM
Mar 2020

leaving them where they are.

And what do the parents get to say about all this?

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
6. There are no good answers. Trump saw to that
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:35 AM
Mar 2020

We are facing a pandemic. What do you do with high school kids alone in a foreign country?

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