The model reported for this sort of education is rather dismal, and shows how much demand there must be in China for an “American education”, not to mention the ignorance with which that demand is fulfilled. Sounds like predatory edu-capitalism to me.
The model involves a “host family” (room and board in LA for $1500/month) and matriculation at “Oxford School, a cluster of portable classrooms tucked away in the back of a Rowland Heights strip mall. The athletic facilities are minimal: three worn basketball hoops, a volleyball net and a soccer goal on a small patch of parched grass”, which cost/s $13,000 per year. This was bought by a newly enriched, recently urbanized Chinese family in which the parents have no English language skills. Who was the “middleman”?