But yeah, my beefs with international students really aren't against them, but against the fact colleges are willing to accept fucktons of students who will need more work than those natively born here to get up to the standard, especially in a speaking-and-writing area like journalism, without taking into account how that might make teaching harder for professors and learning harder for other students.
There were a lot of skills I was hoping to improve on, or learn from some of the experts that were teaching us, that I wasn't able to because 3/4 of my section were catching up on high school level english literacy, and that was obviously more important, and I say that seriously and legitimately thinking that myself. It's more important for them to get up to the standard and begin to learn than it is for me to learn further.... But the third year that I was in is optional, and I had intended to use it to improve myself. I

oh, wrong chat

but for more context, my college had like 5,000 international students this past school year

...outnumbering native leaf students

Which meant a lot of teachers were doubling as english tutors while also trying to teach their actual courses

I don't have beef with the students, but with the college for being more concerned with getting money from international students than with actual classroom functionality

I had a student in our first "write a news" assignment class thing

hand in a stolen AP article

because he didn't understand that he had to do his own reporting

dude was from fuckin' china and intended to return there with his *journalism degree*

1) what
2) why
3) fucking hell

That is a China thing @King Canuck

@SideTracker you nasty

yeah, our indian students picked things up fast

their pronounciations got a little freud-y

but they picked up the skills no problem

@JackH670 why?

What they do for essays and the like in uni there, is they copy the best authoritative source they can find

Chinese making cheap knockoffs

Imagine my shock

they consider the reading of that source and the finding of it to be the assignement

We had a syrian student pronounce "protest" as "prostate"

on live tv

it was brutal

she was **told** to rehearse

but she was like, 40, and didn't want to listen to the students or the prof

Prostate

Milk it

eww

behave

"THE STOODENT PROSTATE THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT"

That's gay

she would speak with a normal tone

but on camera IT WAS

YELLING. WITH ODD PAUSES.

AND SUDDEN. MISPRONOUNCIATIONS.

We couldn't figure out how to help her