Exchange Student Information

The Danish police are bringing charges against 1,004 teenagers aged below 20 for their partipation in sharing a video which consist of some teenagers having sex. It is part of an international operation called "Umbrella".

The Danish law does not have any Romeo and Juliet clause. That means that the full burden of possesing child porn and even distributing the video will hit the teenagers hard.

It is estimated that the 1,004 is not the final number because the video was shared using Facebook messenger and that means that even teenagers who just received in and deleted it right away when they realised that it was porn will be charged and as the law is convicted of possesion.

The present laws in Denmark leave no loophole. The laws were written before computers became something ordiary. A photo or a video is the same regardless whether it is on paper or on the screen. Once you your equipment has received the video, you are guilty regardless of what you do!

So it is important that Danish teenagers who consider a future as an exchange student not to own any devices which could bring their future plans in danger.

Some claim that the teenager could have reported the video to the police but then they would have lost their computers while the investigation went on which in Denmark takes years (The video is from 2015) and that would cost them their future in the education system where most work are done on computer. Secondary many lives in part of Denmark where the daily law enforcement are conducted by youth gangs while the police protect the danish border.

The gang war in 2017 was stopped entirely without the involvement of the police proving that the lawenforcement in parts of Copenhagen have been outsourced to private enterprises.

The advice to future Danish exchange students are simple. Do not have smartphones! Do not keep social accounts on major networks who uses electronic software to monitor photos. The wrong message can stop your future plans!!

When Trump became president, he considered to restrict people from 12 countries from entering the United States.

We believe that he should put all those countries which were formerly a part of Somalia on this list.

In one part now known as Somaliland a new industry has established itself. It is a industry of extreme religious boarding schools where parents who live in the United States and Europe can send their children to if the children become too American or too European in their customs.

That is a problem when we address the security issues in every country in the world because closed school environments can be abused allowing the children to be forced into being taught about violence and that terrorism can be a tool to change the world.

We ordinary citizens in Europe and United States want to live in peace. Allowing children to leave our countries so they are placed in schools abroad where they learn to disgust our way of life and even fight it, is a serious threat against our peaceful lives.

We urge Trump and the American administration to put the area of Somalia on a watch list. We ask their customs to detain and interview every traveller leaving for and coming from the Somali area so it can be determined if they are parents or relatives to a child being detained at one of these boarding schools.

If they have a child at one of these schools they should be detained until the child is safely back in the United States where they then should be put under the protection of the social services.

If the parents then should be allowed to stay in the United States must be up to the court system to decide.

We are aware that many of the parents of Somali origins believe that they are only doing what other American parents do when they hire professionals to put their children in handcuffs and shackles so the children can be taken to Missouri or Utah where they are put into likewise religious boarding schools. The parents have a point.

Why target children with one religion when children are put through similar abuse just inside the United States?

Well. In an ideal world the United States should also put their foot down on all closed boarding schools in the United States. No child should be allowed to be contained under conditions which allows them less rights and more severe conditions compared to what they would experience in local prisons if they had broken the laws and the conditions in local boarding schools in Missouri and Utah are really bad.

But the laws are not there. Federal legislation making it difficult to bring children across state lines into states where legislators and law authorities do not care about children are not in place.

But border control to and from outside United States exist. Here is a chance to put the foot down and prevent abuse and the possibility that the children are introduced into terrorism.

That is why the United States should put the areas of the former Somalia on their watch list and restrict travelling to and from this area

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This is a blog covering the area of exchange students. It has been brought into our attention that some of the teenagers who are detained in Somaliland were sent there under the pretext of being exchange students. That is our reason for posting this message sent to us from a human rights organization.

Spain seems to leave the path of democracy moving back to the old days when Franco was in power when they issued the arrest warrants for local politicians in Catalonia.

We recommend that future exchange students look at other countries instead of Spain when they consider in which country they want to become exchange students.

We also recommend that present exchange students in Spain are kept monitored by their families back home so they can be pulled out very quickly if the situation becomes violent. Spain suffered heavily the last time when the local parliament at that time were forced out by Franco.

In general we also recommend a full stop dealing with Spanish firms and supporting their turism industry until they agree to negociate with the local parliament. To a start they could demand that the voters are listened to again by arranging for a new vote for independence done under conditions of a higher standard.

The central government in Madrid does not seem to listen now. Let us hit them on their vallet until they start to respect democracy.

Keep your children safe and put pressure on the central government in Madrid so Spain can be a place for foreign exchange students again.

While it is happy news for Malthe Thomsen ruling in court also calls for reflection for the many parents of teenagers who consider sending exchange students to the United States.

As it was the case with the Amanda Knox case parents have to teach their children to ask to be lawyered up if they are approached by the local authorities, even if the person representing the authorities wants as little as asking for directions.

Legal procedures are different in every country. It can be hard to understand that they can detain people in Italy for a full year before deciding whether to raise charges. It can be hard to understand that a police department can build an entire case on statements made by a person known to be a drama queen and accept that this person is gone for months to another country stalling the investigation.

Legal procedures should be left with local lawyers and that is why exchange students need to call the Embassy the very minute a police officer approach them.

Malthe Thomsen could have made choices which would have stopped his ordeal within half an hour. A lawyer present during the interrogation would have both shorten the process and it would have kept him out of jail.

The lesson learned had a huge toll on this young man. Let his ordeal not be in vain for future exchange students. Learn to lawyer up right away!

Source:
Pre-K intern accused of molesting 13 children has all charges dropped (New York Daily News)
  

Lene Espersen has announced that she is leaving Danish politics.
That is goodbye to a woman who has meant so much for young Danes wishing to become an exchange student.

It was Lene Espersen who as minister for justice made it possible for the United States to get Camilla Broe extradited; an extradition process dragging out for years, which ended with a result clearing the name of Camilla Broe.

It sent a very clear message to parents of exchange students. Actions which are legal in Denmark might not be legal abroad. The actions might come back a decade later ending in years of legal processing and life quality lost.

So the number of exchange students has dropped during the last years. Second realizing that the quality of education systems abroad might not have the standard we expect in Denmark, the state no longer provides economically aid for exchange students.

A lot of issues regarding exchange student cases came to the light as result of the Camilla Broe case. It has meant that the Danish parents are less motivated to send their children abroad. For this the Danish population own Lene Espersen thank. Our culture is less likely to experience disturbances from exchange students returning home trying to adjust.

It is goodbye to a woman who has lived almost her entire life in politics. Now she will have to experience the torment of normal life among ordinary Danish citizen for the first time. 

We wish her luck.

Source:
Lene Espersen to retire from politics (Denmarks Radio)

The Danish government has decided that they no longer will accredit exchange student agencies in Denmark. The number of failed trips has given the Danish government a bad reputation. While it is unfair because the old system only checked up on the Danish part of the entire operation as the authorities had no right to interfere with operations abroad as they are regulated by local authorities, the official approval of individual organization gave a kind of false security to the families who had children who were thinking of taking a year abroad.

It was a situation none could live with. Not the Danish government. No the families who put the safety of their children in jeopardy.

The end came with the unfair treatment of the exchange student who traveled to Gay Mills and was sent home when the foster mom hacked her Facebook account. The criminal act committed by the foster mom led the entire Denmark understand that the exchange student concept must be abandoned.

So what now? Well it is safe to say that the entire system of exchange students is very much a thing which went by in the past. It has no longer a future in Denmark. The business has been exposed and while some organizations like Rotary properly will continue to send students abroad just to make a kind of political statement, parents who are of their right minds will keep their children home.

It is very positive new as the Danish culture is small and very easy to pollute with impressions from the outside world. With fewer young Danes meeting foreign cultures our culture might look forward towards brighter times.


Source:
Orientering om afskaffelse af tilskud til udvekslingsophold for unge under 18 år (The Danish Department of Education - in Danish)

Due to increased demand we have started a Danish blog.

Here is the address: Ude er godt, hjemme er bedst (Link to Blog)

Denmark Radio has published the news that fewer families than before want to be host family for an exchange student.

And it is not surprising news in a country where the entire concept of a welfare society is under pressure. Social benefits have been cut. Longer work hours are a reality. Students have to attend school for a longer period every day which have led to the question whether the children belongs to their parents or the state.

There is not very much family time left over to socialize and have the surplus to take a foreigner from a perhaps less developed culture and integrate this individual into the family dynamics.

And as a host family it is important to know if the surplus exists. Otherwise the exchange student experience will not satisfactory for both the exchange student and the host family. Then it is better to avoid taking the task as a host family.

Whether the reduction of the number of exchange students as result of fewer exchange students will result a loss for the various communities is doubtful. Because the presence of a foreigner who is forbidden to socialize fully with the Danish students in the Friday bars on the high school campuses as result of their signature on a contract can create an artificial student environment where the mood among the students might not be as happy as if there hadn’t been exchange students present.

So the news that fewer families want to be host families is not bad. Maybe it could create a better student body on the long run.

Source:
Udvekslingsstuderende er ikke et hit (Denmarks Radio)

A Belgian exchange student did jump to his death according to the authorities in the Philippines.

According to notes which was found in the students room, he spoke of weakness.

It is important to understand that some students cannot make it the full year and because exchange student trips are expensive they may hesitate asking to return home before time. They will maybe be ashamed that they have cost their family a lot of money without being able to complete the stay.

It is important to state to your child before the traveling that you as a parent does not consider a premature return as a defeat.

Please support your child in any decisition which could be made.

Source:
‘SUICIDE?’ – BID awaits decision of Belgian’s family (Watchmen Daily Journal)

A 17 year old Danish exchange student was sent home from Wisconsin because she had consensual sex with a boy aged the same.

We find that there is a limit to how much you can ask young people to abstract from. If a state has an age limit for consensual relationships which are below the age of the exchange students who will travel there, the exchange student agencies should deny entry to that particular region.

We must urge the companies to refrain referring exchange students from Denmark if they cannot ensure decent conditions for the young people seeking a year abroad.

Just remember how many sacrifices the exchange students must endure:

• They are not allowed to drink alcohol. Not even below the safe limit of 16.5 which have been proved by modern science.
  
• They are not allowed to drive a car even if they have reached the age limit
  
• They are not allowed to use drugs despite the fact that the population in most host countries is overmedicated with prescription medicine compared to Danish conditions
  
• They will attend a school for a full year they under no circumstance would receive credits for because the standard of the Danish education is so much higher. The Danish department of education does not accept schooling outside Denmark because the schools abroad have no social dimension included in the services they provide their students.
  

This case involving the American Exchange student organization CETUSA and the Danish Explorius organization has made us mail all our contacts so we can start a campaign where we will urge parents of potential exchange students no to use those two organizations.

Source:
Havde sex - smidt ud af USA (Ekstra Bladet - article in Danish)