Hong Kong and China

[AngelsLakersFan]

Lebron is brilliant. The NBA is turning into the villain in China, but Lebron has cast himself as the lone figure standing up for Chinese values. All this in time for his new film projects to take advantage of that Chinese box office.

[tdawg87]

PeKing James

[Tank]

Will they start playing the Chinese national anthem at nba games now?

[Lhalo]

13 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

PeKing James

 

[tdawg87]

16 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

 

LMao

[Tank]

2 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

LMao

[gotbeer]

Get out the popcorn.

US Senate unanimously passes Hong Kong rights bill, sending legislation to House

[Lhalo]

If we had any sense we’d kick Chinese citizens out of our schools. Educating your enemy is about the stupidest thing a country can do. 

Edited November 20, 2019 by Lhalo

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

If we had any sense we’d kick Chinese citizens out of our schools. Educating your enemy is about the stupidest thing a country can do. 

I had no Chinese kids in my high school graduating class.

#wayaheadofyou

[St1ck]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

I had no Chinese kids in my high school graduating class.

#wayaheadofyou

Can you make the same claim at UCLA?

[Lou]

2 minutes ago, st1ckboy said:

Can you make the same claim at UCLA?

[Tank]

4 hours ago, Lhalo said:

If we had any sense we’d kick Chinese citizens out of our schools. Educating your enemy is about the stupidest thing a country can do. 

we have a program with a school in beijing where they send 60+ students to our private christian school every year. if we lost these students, we'd be hurt in a big way. otoh, we've lost american students because of having chinese kids here. we originally started this program to bring in more income for our school. it's saved our bacon because without these foreign students, our school would have cut significant numbers of staff several years ago. we're in a catch-22.

[Lou]

3 minutes ago, Tank said:

we have a program with a school in beijing where they send 60+ students to our private christian school every year. if we lost these students, we'd be hurt in a big way. otoh, we've lost american students because of having chinese kids here. we originally started this program to bring in more income for our school. it's saved our bacon because without these foreign students, our school would have cut significant numbers of staff several years ago. we're in a catch-22.

can any of them pitch? 

[Lhalo]

7 minutes ago, Tank said:

we have a program with a school in beijing where they send 60+ students to our private christian school every year. if we lost these students, we'd be hurt in a big way. otoh, we've lost american students because of having chinese kids here. we originally started this program to bring in more income for our school. it's saved our bacon because without these foreign students, our school would have cut significant numbers of staff several years ago. we're in a catch-22.

How many students are there at your school?

[Tank]

27 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

How many students are there at your school?

450, which includes 65 chinese students.

[Tank]

32 minutes ago, Lou said:

can any of them pitch? 

no, but if there's ever a professional four-square league or it becomes an olympic sport, our kids are doomed.

[gotbeer]

48 minutes ago, Tank said:

we have a program with a school in beijing where they send 60+ students to our private christian school every year. if we lost these students, we'd be hurt in a big way. otoh, we've lost american students because of having chinese kids here. we originally started this program to bring in more income for our school. it's saved our bacon because without these foreign students, our school would have cut significant numbers of staff several years ago. we're in a catch-22.

So you are a pawn of the Chinese, 同志.  

[Tank]

5 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

So you are a pawn of the Chinese, 同志.  

nee hao, brother.

[T.G.]

@Tank is a Chinese asset.

[Tank]

1 minute ago, True Grich said:

@Tank is a Chinese asset.

shh!! you'll ruin everything!

[Lhalo]

44 minutes ago, Tank said:

450, which includes 65 chinese students.

I have a problem with this being allowed in the US.

[Tank]

15 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

I have a problem with this being allowed in the US.

many do. as i said, we lost students over it because their parents didn't want their kid stuck in a room with students who aren't americans.

the other argument is a political one, and there are many who agree with you.

[St1ck]

3 minutes ago, Tank said:

we lost students over it because their parents didn't want their kid stuck in a room with students who aren't americans.

 

And nothing of value was lost for your school. Fuck those people.

[Lhalo]

2 minutes ago, st1ckboy said:

And nothing of value was lost for your school. Fuck those people.

It's actually completely understandable. Foreign students can slow the classroom schedule down. I'm sure Tank can vouch that they have different needs learning curves than students who were raised in this country.

[Tank]

1 minute ago, st1ckboy said:

And nothing of value was lost for your school. Fuck those people.

initially, that's true. their school sent us their best and brightest, and with very few exceptions, the chinese kids adapted pretty well and our students (particularly in the lower grades) liked having them here. the junior high kids were kind of iffy about them and haven't really embraced the chinese kids all that much, even though our program is about 15 years old.

in recent years, the quality of the kids coming over has dropped significantly, and the leadership of their school leaders over here has changed and gone downhill as well. we have behavior problems with more and more of the chinese kids. we aren't getting their best students any longer. they're loud and often unruly. their leadership team is rarely around and they aren't managing their kids nearly as well.

honestly, i'm ready for the program to end. i think it's run it's course and that the american students would in some ways be better off as we'd be able to give them more of our time and attention.