high school international exchange

lotsofbooks
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:17:12 +0000

I believe its getting pretty hard to get a visa to be a student in the PS district
here unless you go through a program. It might even be a law now. We had an exchange student at the time, (about 8 or so years ago) and I remember reading something about in the papers. She had made a friend with a girl from Germany who was doing a private exchange. The parents had met each other on a trip and then they set up the exchange. The parents here didn’t have children yet, so it was easy for them to have a teenager because she was self reliant. The parents in Germany paid to the American family the equivalent of the exchange so it covered the cost of her food and other expenses. When we hosted our student her family paid a lot of money to the agency, but we weren’t reimbursed at all for any of her expenses. (when you have children of your own it would make it awkward to break out expenses anyway) My daughter is interested in studying in France (she’s 14) but we can’t reciprocate since our local school doesn’t accept any more exchange students. I think the agencies really lobbied for the law so that kids would have the families screened and checked out.