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Once ACA students arrive at the international school, they assume a multiple allegiance. As individual students from a senior academy, college or university in Bermuda, Canada or the United States, they are representatives of their home country. At the same time they are residents in another country and students in one of its schools.
By the very nature of ACA, individuals in the program are first of all students of the senior academy, college or university in the ACA consortium through which they applied. As such, they are subject to the academic, financial, and citizenship requirements of the home campus. At the same time, ACA students are part of the affiliated international school and as such are subject to all its requirements. Failure to meet requirements of both institutions may be cause for removal from the program.
Students abroad must always remember that they are there to learn by participation in the ways of a different culture--not to teach "foreigners" how things are done "back home"! The administrators, teachers, and students in the international schools do everything possible to make ACA students welcome and their time among them a truly delightful experience. Living as "natives" among "natives" may contribute more toward the richness of students' subsequent lives than even the learning of the language. ACA programs offer a learning opportunity which cannot be obtained any other way! Back to Summer Programs |
