VOA慢速英語:美國學(xué)校重新考慮其紀(jì)律政策

[00:00.00]From VOA Learning English, [00:01.39]this is the Education Report. [00:05.00]Growing up can be hard in poor neighborhoods [00:09.12]where crime is common. [00:11.52]That is the situation Marco Antonio Aguilar faced [00:15.44]when he started at Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California. [00:22.65]The boy hated school. [00:25.48]He says he had the wrong friends, [00:28.48]often missed classes and even got into fights. [00:33.10]The school suspended him, barring him from attending classes. [00:39.55]He almost was sent to a school for problem students. [00:45.21]But Marco Antonio changed his behavior. [00:49.41]He says a talk with his mother helped him change. [00:54.41]And he praises his teachers. [00:57.53]"With the help of the teachers that I receiving, [00:59.89]knowing that they did care about me, [01:02.43]the school did really help me," Aguilar recalls. [01:06.83]Other students at Garfield High [01:08.88]will never be suspended as Marco Antonio was. [01:12.73]The Punishment of suspension has been suspended. [01:16.14]Jose Huerta, the Garfield High Principal took the action [01:21.99]when he first arrived at Garfield more than four years ago. [01:27.21]"You don't have to suspend kids. [01:30.24]It doesn't get you anywhere. [01:31.38]It's very simple, connect with students," Huerta said. [01:32.41]When Mr. Huerta came to Garfield, [01:36.72]more than half the students were leaving school [01:39.96]without finishing their studies. [01:42.92]And at the same time, [01:45.02]Garfield was suspending nearly 700 students yearly. [01:50.61]He said most of the suspensions [01:54.50]were for behavioral problems known as "willful defiance." [01:59.79]He said that could include something [02:03.09]as minor as chewing gum in class. [02:06.16]Under Mr. Huerta's leadership, [02:10.19]students involved in willful defiance first talk to a teacher, [02:15.30]then a parent may get involved. [02:19.00]finally, group support can be provided if needed. [02:23.86]Today, Garfield graduates 85 percent of its students. [02:29.20]"The reason we don't see vandalism or anything [02:34.51]is because now there's a connection with our students. [02:38.72]I love them. Every time we have an assembly: [02:42.14]'remember guys I love you and we love you" [02:45.17]and they all respond with an applause [02:48.58]because they don't always get that," Huerta said. [02:48.79]In last year, the Los Angeles Unified School District [02:51.15]changed its punishment policy, [02:52.75]the whole district banned suspension to punish students for willful defiance. [02:59.33]Superintendent John Deasy came to Los Angeles Unified in 2011. [03:05.40]He says he started working on the suspension policy problem then. [03:12.55]He said there were far too many suspensions, [03:16.33]and he said there were far too many suspensions of minority students. [03:21.56]Dan Losen is with The Civil Rights Project [03:26.87]at the University of California at Los Angeles. [03:30.77]Mr. Losen said schools [03:33.72]that suspend many students do not have better records [03:37.70]or rates of graduation. [03:39.91]The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education [03:44.25]recently called for the change as well. [03:47.32]And that's the VOA Learning English Education Report. [03:52.78]I'm Marsha James.

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