Exchange students experience terribad USA

[TOloseGT]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/us.exc ... index.html

Alright, which one of you took them in?

[CrimsonNuker]

Good god, wtb tl:dr.

[lavapockets]

That's terrible. Those poor kids

Here you go Crim, just read these:

Five young foreign exchange students found themselves caught in a nightmare of neglect, malnourishment and abandonment by those supposed to protect them.

Some students were so malnourished that one was treated in a hospital for dehydration while another passed out during track at school.

"They weren't provided with food," Jarbola said. "In fact there is one incident with tape on food items in the refrigerator of the host family that says, 'Do not touch. This is for the host family only.' So basically they were neglected."

Villarreal said he lived with a family that housed ex-convicts and that he had very little to eat.

"I lost a lot of body weight, and [it was] an unsafe environment which I felt uncomfortable living in, and it was nothing like I had envisioned my experience in America," he said.

Anne sent an e-mail in October explaining how bad things were and including photographs of the inside of the home where she was placed. The home was later condemned by the city.

When welfare officials interviewed the students, one was so hungry he wept when they gave him pizza during questioning.

Meanwhile, Tanzanian student Musa Mpulki told CNN he did not want to upset his mother, so he never told her that he had little to eat during his nine-month stay in the home of a 72-year-old man who had signs on his refrigerator that some food was only for family.

Although his housing situation was a nightmare, Mpulki said the students at the school made him appreciate America.

"I guess I like to say, 'Thank you very much the government of the United States for to bring me here to get a good experience at the school and a good education.'"

[Ryoko]

Good god, wtb tl:dr.

Exchange students were placed into ghetto homes and or starved for their 9 month stay in america with people who shouldnt be taking care of exchange students. The reading suggests the organization involved simply asked people off the street if they'd take care of a kid that had no where to go.

Some notables was one that stayed in a house that was later comdemned. Another was crying when officials fed him some pizza and another lived in a home with a memo on the fridge about which food was for their family only

[Squirt]

Jarbola, who said Anne's e-mail is now evidence in the criminal investigation, told CNN that when welfare officials interviewed the students, one was so hungry he wept when they gave him pizza during questioning. In all, five of the students were removed from homes where they'd been placed by Aspect.

That is so messed up.

[Tasdik]

Dang. That's screwed up.

[*BlackFox]

That's fck up!

[satman83]

Not really shocked, American social services/local government departments are
notoriously bad (just like ones in the UK) at doing their job properly.

[Reise]

It's not the social services that are at fault, it's the family that was entrusted by them to host the kids.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume there's some kind of tax write off/government check involved for volunteering to "take care" of exchange students.

[lavapockets]

It's not the social services that are at fault, it's the family that was entrusted by them to host the kids.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume there's some kind of tax write off/government check involved for volunteering to "take care" of exchange students.

I don't think so. The company that places the students gets grants from the state department in order to place the students, at least that's what I got from the article. So they have an incentive to place as many children as possible. I don't think the host family gets anything. When my parents did I don't think they got a check, and we spent mad money on trips and stuff

[Reise]

If that's true then yeah social services is at fault.

[lavapockets]

If that's true then yeah social services is at fault.

the other thing I got from the article is that it's the State Dept's responsibility to follow up on complaints, and they rarely do. Which I'm guessing is why social services gets involved. It was a long article and I mostly skimmed it...