Afghani Students in Limbo

The first class of Afghani exchange students returned from the United States to face bureaucratic red tape and culture shock. This story from the Chicago Tribune today takes a look at the state of education and US-Afghani relations. The high school seniors or graduates have to work in a system that does not want to let their credits transfer back or let work back into a confusing educational system. While they were straight-A students in the US, they could fail their senior exams back in Afghanistan because they have missed half the school year. On top of that, their family and friends think the teenagers have become proud and disrespectful to Afghani religion and cultural norms.