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I’ve been an international host parent for the last six years. We have always been good host parents and we keep in contact with students several years after they graduate from Park School and leave our home. Park School accepts an international student this summer and places him in my home. Turns out the student was asked to leave another school, but they placed him in my home without telling me, where he hurts my son repeatedly over several months. I call the school the moment I find out that this has been going on. I asked them for help. They instantly come and remove the boy from my home and decide to expel him, without any meeting with me to sit down and find out what happened to my son. I asked several times for an update on what is happening with the student and when exactly they’re sending him home. This is because the student is trying to contact me nonstop to come see my son and apologize for what he has done. Of course, there is no real response (as I’m finding is often the case with host parents- we don’t really matter as we are not the tuition payers). As a result, they remove me from the international host family group. I am told that this is really my fault, because if I had notified the school sooner that this was happening, they could’ve prevented it from going that far. (This is all while I’m being told I’ve always been a great host parent and they’ve never once had a problem with my family or my home). Do they honestly think that if I knew my son was being abused by a student living in our home that I would continue to let him live with us? They don’t think that the minute I heard and saw evidence of abuse that I called the school on my way to work that morning?

In an effort to not lose their privileges to issue I-20s (the visa needed to enroll students), they DID NOT send this boy home to receive help/counseling– they are working to have him placed in a new school and host family. The cycle will continue.

Unreal and unacceptable. I hope someone addresses this train wreck that has become the international program. These students and their host families are more than just dollar signs for the school. There are very real relationships, families and students involved here! If you can’t responsibly run a program like this, communicate and offer effective support when needed, stop running the program!

Park is an amazing school! One daughter graduated in 2016 and got into 10 excellent colleges – she’s now a very happy second year student at College of Wooster with 2 paid academic positions in her field and she has been on the Dean’s list every semester. Park’s faculty brought out the best in her as a student and a person, we couldn’t be more proud! My younger daughter is thriving at Park, too. The leadership opportunities she has had are incredible and the encouragement to try new things has help her grow into a confident, strong, hard working, intelligent young person. Park’s 34 acre campus is a huge part of everything…students are outside no matter what the weather. They can enjoy and appreciate the natural environs including a pond, marsh, and rolling fields.

The Park School of Buffalo is an excellent school community that focuses on developing the individual! I have worked for Park for over 7 years and am continually amazed at the creative approach of the dedicated faculty and their enthusiasm for the Park community, teaching, and the learning process! I am equally impressed with the caliber of student that graduates from Park… thoughtful, confident, worldly, well-spoken… practiced leaders.