BCPS Bids Farewell to Chinese Exchange Students
Entertaining ceremony marks end of students' eight-week visit.
Baltimore County Public Schools officials, students, staff and family gathered at the Oregon Ridge Lodge on Monday. The event was the fifth-annual celebration of the district's Cultural Exchange Program with China and a farewell to 31 visiting students and two teachers from Tie Yi School in Xi'an, China. The students, who arrived in the country on Feb. 16, had been staying with host families and attending Hereford, Owings Mills, Dulaney, Towson, Perry Hall and Patapsco high schools. “[The exchange program] prepares children for today’s college. It broadens the student experience and you see how it touches the families,” said Linda Masters, a coordinator for the program and a Dulaney library staff member. “It’s amazing how close they get in…
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