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What is the incentive for a family to host this boy? I understand the value that someone in his position gets from being able to live and study in California. But you have to give value to take value right?
So are high schools in the US actually of higher quality than in Slovakia?
But, graduating from an US high school gives you much higher chances to get accepted to a US college, and get a scholarship (if you have top grades).
Talking this from experience: I came in the US for my senior year of high school as an exchange student (lived with an american family), and then got a full academic scholarship from an american university. I was taking mostly AP classes, but still found my self running circles around most students in sciences (math, physics, chemistry) etc, and I found generally much easier experience than my classes back in Albania (even with the language handicap I had at the time). But still, that year in the US was very valuable in learning language, culture, making life-long friends, and getting me into college with a full scholarship.
What sort of legal implications or liabilities would someone take on by hosting this person? For example, if the child got hurt or in a bad accident, would they have the legal obligation to pay for him? And would this child fall under the hosts' medical insurance, or would he have to pay for his own medical insurance?
The family is required to provide food, shelter, and some basic transportation, but that's it. Students are required to have some money aside for monthly expenses.
I never have heard bad stories from the family side (i.e. they end up with a bad students) as the students themselves are well filtered. Most horror stories I have heard is from the students, where they go to a family and then they find themselves they have to babysit or do other stuff they are not expecting to.
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I wondered this, and I suspect the title of this post used to be something different, before being changed by a mod to what it is now.
Correct. It used to say "This 16 year old from Slovakia has a better sales page than you". I think somebody posted it because they thought it was well executed and wanted HN to see it, but the title change makes it look like the creator of the site itself is pestering HN for accommodation. I like the way HN's policy on titles prevents Reddit-esque editorialising, but it has backfired pretty badly in this case.
So are high schools in the US actually of higher quality than in Slovakia?
Yes. I was graduated from high school in Slovakia 2 years ago. In my town (about 45,000 inhabitants, 12th largest in Slovakia) there are 11 high schools (with 50-1000 students). I was actually attending 8-year grammar school - a special school that merges elementary and high school, allowing me to finish my studies 1 year sooner than standard education. This was intended to be for "smarter" kids. (It isn't.) However…
So are high schools in the US actually of higher quality than in Slovakia?
They are not. I am not from Slovakia, but Albania (a neighbor country) and I can say that the average public high-school in the US is not any better than most high-schools in south-eastern Europe. But, graduating from an US high school gives you much higher chances to get accepted to a US college, and get a scholarship (if you have top grades). Talking this from experience: I came in the US for my senior year of high…
There are a lot of high schools in those countries. So you just CAN'T say the high-schools "are better", "are worse" or something like that. Which high-school do you mean exactly? Which course? The questions go on ...
So going deeper in that struct -- being one of the brightest in your Albanian high-school, could make you one of the good ones in some of the USA high-schools ... but sorry that is just not enough to say, that the Albanian educational system is better compared to that of the USA.
We had some problems in that part of Europe and sadly the education suffered a lot ...
That page causes Chrome to lag. I would also say that if that page was any longer or any more information dense then it wouldn't work as a thing. It only works because there is so little content. In general it depends what you're trying to sell. I've never actually purchased from one of these "flow" pages, but I have purchased a lot from more boring product pages like this: http://www.linode.com/tour/ The OP's sales…
Webpages changes fashion with a rather steady rate. Before this growing style, white "clean" pages with minimal content was in style and is still in favor. Before then, extremely detailed "photoshopped" pages with a bunch of flash was in style (and menus, menus, menus). Before then, geocity and frontpage style, with blinking animations and sound. Before then, Spreadsheet style and link tables. I wonder what this styl…