<p>From conversations with current boarding students, it is surprising to me that even the best schools harbor internationals with poor English skills, bad interpersonal skills (as in, never helping out in group projects), and general inattention to or interest in the school. In one very well known school, there is a group of Afghans (! yes!) who simply float around with a kind of entitlement mentality and really don't learn or contribute much of anything beyond some hallowed "geographic diversity" while fulfilling the school's sense of mission to the less well off. What happens, in practice, is that the education for the rest of the classmates of these students gets degraded by their attitudes, lack of aptitude, and general flakiness. Do any other current boarding school students find themselves put off, disappointed, or surprised by the general uselessness of some of the internationals at their supposedly highly exclusive and highly expensive schools?</p>