Chinese Coming to US to Attend Private High Schools

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Michael Alison Chandler, U.S. prep schools push to recruit foreign students.
Washington Post, Mar. 30, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032903514.html

(1) Quote:

"The cost to her parents, both telecommunications executives, is close to $
40,000 a year for tuition and living expenses.")

"In Australia, where international education revenue has surpassed that of
tourism

"In the United States, public high schools charge tuition for those on
student visas and limit enrollment to one year, so most attend private
schools.


(2) Note:
(a) Bullis School
http://www.bullis.org/
("An independent, co-educational college preparatory school enrolling
students in grades 3 through 12" located at Potomac (12 miles northwest of
DC), Maryland; founded in 1930 by Commander William F. Bullis)

(b) Kurt Vonnegut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
(1922-2007; American novelist)

(c) With regard to the third quotation, see
Foreign Students (F-1) in Public Schools. US DEepartment of State.
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1269.html
("How does the law [Section 625 of Public Law 104-208] affect F-1 students
in private schools?")

(d) Sandy Spring Friends School
http://www.ssfs.org/

Wikipedia describes the school: located at Sandy Spring, Maryland; founded
in 1958; Religious Society of Friends whose members are known as Quakers; "
pre-Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade co-educational college preparatory
day school with optional five and seven day boarding programs in the Upper
School."

Both Potomac and Sandy Spring are in Montgomery County, Maryland.

(e) Vienna, Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna,_Virginia
(in Fairfax County of Virginia)

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