CGS is a homey place; a place
where many kids come to learn three exotic languages in the world and express
themselves without any judgment. We often invite students from these exotic
places and let them stay in our homes and see what it’s like to live the
“American” lifestyle. CGS students also go to the countries that speak the
language that they’re learning. Wouldn’t you want to go to these new places and
experience the culture? Wouldn’t you want to give the students from these
countries a chance to learn the life of an average American and let them create
their own impressions? What a great, comfortable, safe, and culturally diverse
school CGS is. But CGS is missing one safe thing and that’s
getting background checks on the families that are hosting. As a student from
another country I would like to know if the family that I’m staying with is
safe. I wish CGS would try and ask permission from the host family if they
would like to do a background check. It would reassure the students’ safety and
reassure them that no harm would come to them and they would get assigned a family
that best suits them. As a person who can be become quickly uncomfortable when
around the unfamiliar, I know that feeling of not knowing what you’re stepping
into. It’s a scary thing not only for the students that are coming from these
countries, but also their parents. Think about how your parents would feel if
they were sending you to another country to live with a new family for a week
without knowing what the family is about. It’s a scary thing to imagine. It’s
like walking through a dark room not knowing what’s there until you hit that
light switch on the other side of the room. It’s scary and as CGS, the
culturally diverse, homey, safe school why would we want our home stays to feel
that way?
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