Today, the reps from the five schools had one final meeting with officials from New Oriental Schools and Eduboston to have everyone understand next steps should we experience applications from any of the international students we visited with. The officials from New Oriental were very pleased with the number of students who turned out for the schools in this first venture at marekting the Boston area day schools in China. Time will teel in the next few weeks how fruitful initially our efforts will be for this Fall. I am very confident CCHS now has a presence in the minds of New Oriental as they advise students and I also feel CCHS made a very good impression on the students we met with. This relationship will evolve and develop over time in a direction that is mutually beneficial to Chinese students seeking a top notch US high school education and to our own CCHS students as they intereact with and appreciate the culture of international students.
We leave the hotel today at noon for the Shanghai airport and travel 13 hours to Chicago's O'Hare Airport, then after a two hour layover, fly the 3 hours or so to Boston.
It has been an extraordinary privilege and experience to visit China representing CCHS to students half way across the world. Students in China seek a life with greater opportunity and know that education is the key to opportunity. It's not so different than we all were brought up to believe, is it? The difference is that they believe that to improve their chances for an opportune life, they must go outside their country's borders, even at age 14 or 15. Since families are permitted by government to have only one child, so much pressure falls on the one child to succeed in life.
Thanks for reading my CCHS to China Blog. It's been a pleasure to write, I hope you found at least some parts interesting. Go Raiders!
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