Editor:
Your article about the Josai program (Aug. 1) was dead on.
It is time for Sweet Home to step up and support a 30-year program filled with love and learning. I was the coordinator for the Josai program at the high school for 10 years, I have first-hand knowledge of Sweet Home students experiencing Japan. I have hosted several short-stay students in my home.
I have taken Josai students around Oregon. We have experienced the fish hatchery, McCubbins’ farm, walked the community, and these students have been hosted by families in Sweet Home for 30 years.
If families in Sweet Home have hosted these kids for 30 years, and Josai has hosted our students for all this time, don’t you think this program has support, love, and a tremendous amount of people in this community that have been impacted by Josai?
This program is a chance for us to experience culture from a distant land, and we are experiencing with people who love our community! Should we really slap them in the face and say “no?”
Steve Hummer
Sweet Home