I haven't seen this posted, so apologizes if it is:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/23/my-international-students-are-often-unprepared-for-college-i-want-them-anyway/
I remembered the rest of the Chinese students, too, although not individually. There were 15 or so of them in a class of 120. They sat in the back row huddled together. When exam time came, they all flunked. Reading their exams, I understood why they had not come to see me when I reached out to them. They didn’t know enough English to ask the questions they needed answers to.
Still in these large courses that are already a teaching challenge with increasing student enrollments, I know that I’ll lose most of my Chinese students.
Despite these obstacles, though, I would never suggest that these students shouldn’t come. From a purely economic point of view, they bolster our economy. In 2014, these students contributed more than $30 billion to the American economy, according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce. International students, often paying full freight, also help colleges address budget shortfalls (especially as state governments cut funding). At my university, there is a huge incentive to accept international students because they pay the same tuition, $35,000 per year, as out-of-state students as opposed to the $12,000 a year in-state students pay.
and to achieve a political agenda:
Whether from China, India, the Middle East or Africa, they help counter what I call the new isolationism.
... I don't think bringing in students that can't speak English is going to make Americans more open to other cultures, when they go to class everyday and look at other students that so obviously bought their way into the school and did not get there on merit.
The author apparently also think it would be a good idea for Americans to study abroad in Iran, you know, where people randomly get arrested for no reason and/or accused of spying and thrown in jail.
at some point, is this fraud? You are taking money and there is no hope of these kids receiving the services they are paying for (of course, it is completely their choice).
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