71-5-336
Parents are passionate, protective creatures when it comes to their children, as nature designed them to be. Teachers strive to be dispassionate, objective professionals, as their training requires them to be. Throw in all the suspicions born of class and race and personal experience, a culture that praises teachers freely but pays them poorly, a generation taught to question authority and a political climate that argues for holding schools ever more accountable for how kids perform, and it is a miracle that parents and teachers get along as well as they do. 'There's more parent involvement that's goodand bad,' notes Kirk Daddow, a 38-year veteran who teaches Advanced Placement history in Ames, Iowa. 'The good kind is the 'Make yourself known to the teacherask what you could do.' The bad kind is the 'Wait until something happens, then complain about it and try to get a grade changed.'' Overall, he figures, 'we're seeing more of the bad.'

A. 어휘
strive-strove-striven/strive-strived-strived 노력하다.
dispassionate 냉정한, 감정에 지배되지 않는. objective 객관적인.
throw in 주입하다, 말을 삽입하다, 덤으로 보태다. suspicion 의심. class 계급, 계층.
race 인종. praise 칭찬하다. authority 권위. hold accountable for 책임지다.
perform 수행하다. miracle 奇蹟(기적). involvement 분쟁, 連累(연루), 말려듦.
Advanced Placement 越班[(월반)(우수한 학생이 고등학교에서 대학 과정 이수AP).].
get a grade changed 등급(성적)을 고치다. overall 일반적으로.
figure 여기다, 생각하다.

B. 구문
-Throw in all the suspicions . . . get along as well as they do.
cf. 명령문+And=...을 하라, 그러면....할 것이다.
Work hard, and you will be rich.→If you work hard, you will be rich.
[계층과 인종과 개인적 경험에서 생기는 모든 의심과, 교사들을 마음놓고 칭송하지만
봉급은 적게 주는 문화와, 정당한 권위도 의심하도록 배운 세대, 그리고 학생들의 성적은 학교에 모든 책임이 있다고 주장하는 정치풍토 이 모든 것을 합쳐서 생각해 보라. 그러면 교사와 학부모가 지금처럼 사이좋게 지내는 현상은 기적이라는 것을 느끼게 될 것이다.]

71-6-337
Long gone are the days when the school was a fortress, opened a couple of times a year for parents' night and graduation but generally off limits to parents unless their kids got into trouble. Now you can't walk into schools, public or private, without tripping over parents in the halls. They volunteer as library aides and reading coaches and Mentor Moms, supplement the physical-education offerings with yoga and kickboxing, sponsor faculty-appreciation lunches and fund-raising barbecues, supervise field trips and road games and father-daughter service projects. Even the heads of boarding schools report that some parents are moving to live closer to their child's school so that they can be on hand and go to all the games. As budgets shrink and educational demands grow, that extra army of helpers can be a godsend to strapped schools.
But parents, it turns out, have a learning curve of their own. Parents who are a welcome presence in elementary school as library helpers need to learn a different role for junior high and another for high school as their children's needs evolve. Teachers talk about 'helicopter parents,' who hover over the school at all times, waiting to drop in at the least sign of trouble. Given these unsettled times, if parents feel less in control of their own lives, they try to control what they can, which means everything from swooping down at the first bad grade to demanding a good 12 inches of squishy rubber under the jungle gym so that anyone who falls will bounce right back. 'The parents are not the bad guys,' says Nancy McGill, a teacher in Johnston, Iowa, who learned a lot about handling parents from being one herself.

A. 어휘
fortress 要塞(요새). graduation 졸업. off limits 출입금지구역.
trip over 발이 걸려 넘어지다. volunteer 지원하다. library aides 도서관 보조원.
reading coaches 독서 지도교사. mentor 현명하고 성실한 조언자, 교사.
supplement 보충하다. physical-education 체육. offerings 선사품, 供物(공물).
faculty 교직원. appreciation 감사. faculty-appreciation 師恩(사은).
fund-raising barbecues 募金(모금) 바베큐. supervise 지도하다, 감독하다.
boarding schools 기숙학교. be on hand 가까이에 있다. budget 예산.
shrink-shrank-shrunk 줄어들다. army 무리, 떼, 단체. godsend 하나님의 선물.
strap 가죽끈으로 묶다, 혁대로 때리다. learning curve 學習曲線(학습곡선).
evolve 진화하다. hover 맴돌다. drop in 잠깐 들르다. the least sign 최소의 징표.
swooping down 덮치다, 急襲(급습)하다. squishy 뭉개어 허물어지는, 폭신폭신한.
jungle gym 철골로 만든 놀이 시설. 상자사다리라고도 함. bounce 튀어 오르다.

B. 구문
- so that they can be on hand
cf. so that + 주어 + can/may/will→ ...하기 위하여
[(자식들과)가까이 있기 위하여]
- Given these unsettled times,→If we are given. . . .
[이 불안정한 시대를 고려해 보면]
- from being one herself.
[자신이 부모가 되어 봄으로써]