71. Parents Behaving Badly
By NANCY GIBBS TIME Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005

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If you could walk past the teachers' lounge and listen in, what sorts of stories would you hear? An Iowa high school counselor gets a call from a parent protesting the C her child received on an assignment. 'The parent argued every point in the essay,' recalls the counselor, who soon realized why the mother was so upset about the grade. 'It became apparent that she'd written it.'
A sixth-grade teacher in California tells a girl in her class that she needs to work on her reading at home, not just in school. 'Her mom came in the next day,' the teacher says, 'and started yelling at me that I had emotionally upset her child.'
A science teacher in Baltimore, Md., was offering lessons in anatomy when one of the boys in class declared, 'There's one less rib in a man than in a woman.' The teacher pulled out two skeletonsone male, the other femaleand asked the student to count the ribs in each. 'The next day,' the teacher recalls, 'the boy claimed he told his priest what happened and his priest said I was a heretic.'
A teacher at a Tennessee elementary school slips on her kid gloves each morning as she contends with parents who insist, in writing, that their children are never to be reprimanded or even corrected. When she started teaching 31 years ago, she says, 'I could make objective observations about my kids without parents getting offended. But now we handle parents a lot more delicately. We handle children a lot more delicately. They feel good about themselves for no reason. We've given them this cotton-candy sense of self with no basis in reality. We don't emphasize what's best for the greater good of society or even the classroom.'

A. 어휘
behave 처신하다. Parents Behaving Badly→Parents who are behaving badly
walk past 지나가다. lounge 휴게실. get a call 전화를 받다.
protest 항의하다. assignment 숙제, 割當(할당). argue 논쟁하다. recall 회상하다.
upset 뒤집힌, 마음상태가 혼란한. apparent 명백한. sixth-grade 6학년.
work on ...에 착수하다. yell 고함치다. emotionally 감정적으로, 정서적으로.
upset 당황하게 하다, 뒤집어 놓다, 망치다. anatomy 해부학. declare 선언하다.
rib 갈비뼈. skeleton 해골, 골격. priest 神父(신부). heretic 이단자, 異敎徒(이교도).
elementary school 초등하교. slip on 걸치다. contend with 싸우다.
insist 강요하다. reprimand 譴責(견책)하다, 징계하다. correct 교정하다.
objective 개관적인. observation 관찰. offend 감정을 해치다. handle 다루다.
delicately 섬세하게, 예민하게. cotton-candy 솜사탕. reality 實在(실재), 사실.
emphasize 강조하다.

B. 구문
- We've given them this cotton-candy . . . society or even the classroom.
[우리는 사실에 바탕을 두지 않고 아이들에게 솜사탕 같이 달콤한 자신감을 주어왔다. 우리는 보다 더 큰 사회집단이나 심지어 학급전체를 위해 가장 좋은 것을 강조하지 않고 있다.]

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When our children are born, we study their every eyelash and marvel at the perfection of their toes, and in no time become experts in all that they do. But then the day comes when we are expected to hand them over to a stranger standing at the head of a room full of bright colors and small chairs. Well aware of the difference a great teacher can makeand the damage a bad teacher can doparents turn over their kids and hope. Please handle with care. Please don't let my children get lost. They're breakable. And precious. Oh, but push them hard and don't let up, and make sure they get into Harvard.
But if parents are searching for the perfect teacher, teachers are looking for the ideal parent, a partner but not a pest, engaged but not obsessed, with a sense of perspective and patience. And somehow just at the moment when the experts all say the parent-teacher alliance is more important than ever, it is also becoming harder to manage. At a time when competition is rising and resources are strained, when battles over testing and accountability force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phones and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels creep into the parent-teacher conference, it's harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share.

A. 어휘
eyelash 속눈썹. marvel 驚歎(경탄)하다. perfection 完璧(완벽), 완전. toe 발가락.
in no time 당장, 즉시. hand over 넘겨주다, 인계하다. damage 損傷(손상), 피해.
breakable 약한, 깨지기 쉬운. precious 귀중한. let up 느슨해지다, 긴장을 풀다.
make sure 다짐하다, 확인하다. search for 추구하다. pest 성가신 사람, 疫病(역병).
engage 관여하다, 참여하다, 종사하다. obsess [妄想(망상)에] 사로잡히다, 강박관념에 사로잡히다. perspective 眺望(조망), 遠景(원경), 전망, 시각. patience 인내.
alliance 동맹. competition 경쟁. resources 財源(재원), 자금, 자원.
strain 緊縮(긴축)하다, 조이다, 팽팽하게 하다. testing 評價(평가).
accountability 책임이 있음, 책무. force 강요하다. adjust 조정하다.
priority 優先(우선) 事項(사항), 우선, 긴급한 일. ghost 유령, 귀신, 망령.
quarrel 言爭(언쟁). creep-crept-crept 기다. creep into 살금살금 들어가다.
conference 회의. share 共有(공유)하다.

B. 구문
- the day comes when we are . . . colors and small chairs.
cf. 관계부사(형용사절)→전치사+관계대명사
ex. The day will come. You and I shall meet on the day.
→The day on which you and I shall meet will come.
→The day when you and I shall meet will come.
→The day will come when you and I shall meet.
[여러 가지 색채와 작은 걸상들로 가득 차 있는 교실 앞에 서 있는 어떤 낯선 사람(선생님)에게 아이들을 넘겨주어야 할 날이 온다.]
- a partner but not a pest . . . of perspective and patience.
[학생교육에 참여는 하지만 망상에 사로잡히지 않고 巨視的(거시적)인 시각과 인내심을 가진 동반자이지 성가시게 구는 사람이 아닌 부모]