71-3-334
Ask teachers about the best part of their job, and most will say how much they love working with kids. Ask them about the most demanding part, and they will say dealing with parents. In fact, a new study finds that of all the challenges they face, new teachers rank handling parents at the top. According to preliminary results from the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, made available exclusively to TIME, parent management was a bigger struggle than finding enough funding or maintaining discipline or enduring the toils of testing. It's one reason, say the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, that 40% to 50% of new teachers leave the profession within five years. Even master teachers who love their work, says Harvard education professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, call this 'the most treacherous part of their jobs.'
'Everyone says the parent-teacher conference should be pleasant, civilized, a kind of dialogue where parents and teachers build alliances,' Lawrence-Lightfoot observes. 'But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety, panic and vulnerability.' While teachers worry most about the parents they never see, the ones who show up faithfully pose a whole different set of challenges.

A. 어휘
demanding part 힘든 부분. rank 등급을 매기다. according to ...에 의하면.
preliminary 예비의. survey 조사. available 입수할 수 있는, 사용할 수 있는.
exclusively 독점적으로, 배타적으로. funding (교육)자금, 융자. maintain 유지하다. discipline 訓育(훈육). endure 견디다. toil 勞苦(노고). master teacher 校長(교장).
treacherous 반역적인, 불안정한. conference 회의.
civilized 품위 있는, 예절바른, 문명의. alliance 동맹. observe 소견을 말하다.
panic 당황, 겁먹음, 恐慌(공황). vulnerability 상처받기 쉬움, 脆弱性(취약성).
worry 걱정하다. show up 얼굴을 내 보이다, 돋보이다. faithfully 성실하게.
pose 제출하다.

B. 구문
- made available exclusively to TIME→which was made......
[TIME에 독점적으로 제공된]
- the ones →the parents

71-4-335
Leaving aside the monster parents who seem to have been born to torment the teacher, even 'good' parents can have bad days when their virtues exceed their boundaries: the eager parent who pushes too hard, the protective parent who defends the cheater, the homework helper who takes over, the tireless advocate who loses sight of the fact that there are other kids in the class too. 'I could summarize in one sentence what teachers hate about parents,' says the head of a private school. 'We hate it when parents undermine the education and growth of their children. That's it, plain and simple.' A taxonomy of parents behaving badly:

THE HOVERING PARENT

It was a beautiful late morning last May when Richard Hawley, headmaster at University School in Cleveland, Ohio, saw the flock of mothers entering the building, eager and beaming. 'I ask what brings them to our halls,' he recalls. 'They tell me that this is the last day the seniors will be eating lunch together at school and they have come to watch. To watch their boys eat lunch? I ask. Yes, they tell me emphatically. At that moment, a group of lounging seniors spot their mothers coming their way. One of them approaches his mother, his hands forming an approximation of a crucifix. 'No,' he says firmly to his mother. 'You can't do this. You've got to go home.' As his mother draws near, he hisses in embarrassment, 'Mother, you have no life!' His mother's smile broadens. 'You are my life, dear.''

A. 어휘
leave aside 제쳐 두고. monster 괴물. torment 괴롭히다, 고문하다. virtue 미덕.
exceed 한도를 넘다, 초과하다. boundary 境界(경계). eager 열성적인.
protective 보호하는. defend 옹호하다, 방어하다. cheater 속이는 사람.
helper 보조자. take over (숙제를) 대신하다, 떠맡다. tireless 지칠 줄 모르는.
advocate 옹호자. lose sight of 시야에서 놓치다, 보지 못하다. summarize 요약하다.
undermine 토대를 침식하다, 基礎(기초)를 위태롭게 하다.
that's it 바로 그거야! 맞았어! plain 평범한. taxonomy 分類(분류), 분류학.
hover 빙빙 맴돌다, 배회하다. headmaster 교장. flock 떼.
beaming 환한, 명랑한, 밝게 빛나는. senior 최 상급생.
emphatically 단호하게, 語勢(어세)를 강하게 하여. lounge 어슬렁거리다.
spot 알아 보다. form 형성하다. approximation 비슷한 것, 類似(유사).
crucifix 크루시픽스(링에서 팔을 수평으로 펴고 잠깐 정지하는 기술), 십자가 像(상).
firmly 확고하게. draws near 가까이 다가가다(오다). hiss 쉿 하다.
embarrassment 당황. broaden 넓어지다.

B. 구문
- the homework helper who takes over
[숙제를 대신해 주는 숙제도우미]
- One of them approaches . . . an approximation of a crucifix.
cf. his hands forming →as his hands form
[상급생 중의 한 명이 그의 두 손을 크루시픽스와 비슷한 형태로 만들면서( 두 손을 펼쳐서 가라고 표시하면서) 그의 어머니에게 접근하였다]
cf. approaches →동사시제는 현재이지만 실제 시간은 과거.