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Prior to the pandemic, tens of thousands of Chinese kids left home every year to attend high school in the United States. Was it worth it? from the Sixth Tone on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sixthtone/posts/pfbid0hp5epJBy5EPhGxi3vjbzDRYMuMH93Aitn5RWS8sZgy9m8GnDh5FCcDPPVa8n2kEtl China’s ‘Parachute Generation’ Grows Up Prior to the pandemic, tens of thousands of Chinese kids left home every year to attend high school in the United States. Was it worth it?
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I found this story on MSN. It is rather disturbing: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/attack-on-chi nese-teen-puts-new-focus-on-parachute-kids-in-california/ar-AAcsN4D I had never hear the term Parachute Kids before. Initially I had just glanced over the article and missed some details. I reread the article and was shocked about who was doing the attacking. "Lord of the Flies" similarities indeed. Sad. Very sad. DanB EDIT (RandyW): Above link is broken - this is apparently the same story from another source (Fort Smith Times Record) Attack On Chinese Teen In California Puts New Focus On ‘Parachute Kids’ High school students from China allegedly tortured fellow students near this patio at Yes Plaza food court in Rowland Heights, Calif. pictured on June 23, 2015. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Rowland Heights Park, pictured on June 23, 2015, is where Yiran "Camellia" Liu says she was brought in March by fellow Chinese "parachute kids" who beat her and tortured her with cigarettes. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Most of the students at Oxford School in Rowland Heights, Calif., are in the U.S. without their parents and live in "homestays," where the private homeowner collects room and board and registers as the child's legal guardian. Some of the "parachute kids" involved in recent assaults attended the school. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Fort Smith Times Record
