Houston school districts: should they try to accept Chinese international students to make money? (Bellaire: apartment, house)

[Vicman]

High School Draws Chinese Students, Tuition Dollars : NPR

This NPR story talks about a Michigan school district that converted an old elementary school into a dorm so it could house international students from China. Their families pay tuition so the kids go to American high schools.

Should HISD or other school districts in the Houston area do this? Maybe HISD can convert MacGregor or Stevenson elementary into dorms for Chinese students so they can attend Lamar?

[colcat]

I'm not so sure why Chinese people want to send their kids to American schools. I am aware of the differences in the two systems, just wondering if some don't want their kids being subjected to the rigors of it in China?

[eylu]

Easier to get into American Universities. If you've been to any major college there is always a huge foreign asian population.

[colcat]

Originally Posted by eylu

Easier to get into American Universities. If you've been to any major college there is always a huge foreign asian population.

Yes, I guess I just thought that they graduated from Chinese schools...

[testmo]

Plenty of chinese and korean men i used to work with left their families while they were teenagers to live in the US with some distant relative or some random person from their community back home just to graduate from a US high school, go to a US college in order to work towards citizenship and US employment. I know a chinese family that came here for a short time so the wife could give birth on US soil

I dont think any of that is a good thing

[ptt]

Originally Posted by testmo

Plenty of chinese and korean men i used to work with left their families while they were teenagers to live in the US with some distant relative or some random person from their community back home just to graduate from a US high school, go to a US college in order to work towards citizenship and US employment. I know a chinese family that came here for a short time so the wife could give birth on US soil

I dont think any of that is a good thing

Why not? You would rather have no skill, uneducated , illegal immigrant heavily rely on government support than college or higher educated work force that pay tax and contribute to society?

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by ptt

Why not? You would rather have no skill, uneducated , illegal immigrant heavily rely on government support than college or higher educated work force that pay tax and contribute to society?

This is why the USGov works hard to attract scientists and rich investors.

Steps HISD could take:

* Reduce the Lamar and Bellaire attendance zones
* Convert old elementary schools or buy apartment units to make student dorms
* Eliminate school uniform requirements at Lamar High because uniforms are not a sign of the best public high schools and the public knows this now, so to show Lamar is a better school they must eliminate uniforms - also principals and parents must be instructed that there should be no excessive focus on dress code. correcting dress code issues takes valuable time away from education
* If need be enact a high school admission test. Students who fail instead attend remedial educational facilities rather than their home schools. Their test scores won't affect their home schools, and if they never leave remedial schools they won't receive an HS diploma

Make it clear that Chinese overseas students who want to learn have more value than US citizens who disrupt the classroom and give problems to teachers (this does NOT include students who simply have a tough time learning, but it means those who intentionally disrupt the classroom)

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Vicman

High School Draws Chinese Students, Tuition Dollars : NPR

This NPR story talks about a Michigan school district that converted an old elementary school into a dorm so it could house international students from China. Their families pay tuition so the kids go to American high schools.

Should HISD or other school districts in the Houston area do this? Maybe HISD can convert MacGregor or Stevenson elementary into dorms for Chinese students so they can attend Lamar?

Is this a joke?
Why do this with a public school?
If the idea is so great, let a private school do it and take their money and also take on the liability of having a dorm full of little kids and everything that that entails.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Is this a joke?
Why do this with a public school?
If the idea is so great, let a private school do it and take their money and also take on the liability of having a dorm full of little kids and everything that that entails.

Read the NPR article. Public school districts in Michigan and Maine are accepting Chinese students to make money. Private boarding schools do it too but its telling to see American public schools doing this.

As for Maine:
Chinese students pleased with Maine education, try to grasp concept of ‘free time’ — Bangor — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/ed...pagewanted=all

[Texas Ag 93]

This is no joke. I heard this piece on NPR yesterday as well. Very interesting. The Chinese are obsessed with the US and living the "American Dream". Buying tons of property in the US for cash and driving up home prices in many North American cities either for investment purposes or in the hopes that their children can live here and go to University.

It's not dissimilar from the 1980s when the Japanese were buying lots of US commercial property.