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Why did his sponsors, his school, his parents, and/ or guardians not do a better job of checking those "host parents" out?
My husband and I hosted an exchange student from France in the summer of 1995 for three weeks. Just for that short period of time, we were checked out thoroughly and rigerously by the representative of the organization matching students with hosts. First, I was asked if I'd be interested in opening up my home to a French student for those three weeks. When I said I might be, and my husband agreed, we were shown a set of photographs and autobiographies. After we'd chosen the student we thought would be most compatible with us, he and his parents sent us letters of introduction.
We had to fill out a questionaire which asked our attitudes toward religion and certain social customs, such as alcohol consumption, church attendance, household rules, foods usually served in our home, our movie preferences, our recreational likes and dislikes, our educational levels, etc. We were apprised of what we were required to offer the student and what the student was required to do as a foreign representative of his school and of his country while in America. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I knew our French student almost as well as I did my own son, who was a year younger.
The Polish student should never have had to go through what he did for such a long time. He should have some legal recourse against the organization that matched him with these fundies.
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