地道美語聽力播客935：家有女兒，學習成績真操心

Jeannie: Everything okay?

珍妮： 一切都好嗎?

William: No, I just got off the phone with my daughter’s school and they’re not putting her in the gifted and talented program.

威廉： 不好，我接到我女兒學校的電話，我女兒沒有分到重點班。

Jeannie: That’s disappointing, but wasn’t she struggling in school last year?

珍妮： 真的很抱歉，聽到這個消息，她去年的學習有點吃力嗎?

William: Her teachers were thinking of putting her in remedial classes. Can you believe that? My daughter is getting poor grades because she’s bored in school. She tunes out. She’d be coasting in her classes if the teachers would just challenge her.

威廉：她的老師想把她分到輔導班， 你能相信嗎?我女兒學習成績差，是因為她對學校厭煩了，對上學一點不上心。 要是老師能多給她一些挑戰(zhàn)性的問題， 她就能毫不費力地取得成功。

Jeannie: Are you sure that’s the problem? My son was considered low- achieving in the lower grades, but since starting high school, he’s doing a lot better.

珍妮： 你確定?我兒子曾一度被以為是在學習上進度慢， 但是上高中后，他做的好多了。

William: I’m telling you, my daughter could be high- achieving if they’d only put her in the gifted and talented program. It’s all about teacher expectations.

威廉：我跟你說， 我女兒學習速度很快，如果他們把她分到重點班。這都是老師對學生的期望值太低的問題。

Jeannie: Well, it’s not all about expectations…

珍妮： 額，其實不全是期望……

William: Are you trying to tell me that my daughter is slow and I should just accept it?

威廉：你是不是想跟我說我女兒反應慢，我只能承認?

Jeannie: I’m saying that kids develop at their own pace. Some are late bloomers.

珍妮： 我只是說每個孩子都有自己的步調，有的孩子只是啟蒙的比較晚。

William: Nobody in my family has ever been late in anything, and they’re not going to start now.

威廉：我們家的人沒有人落后別人，他們從來不會現(xiàn)在才起步。

Jeannie: Putting pressure on her might make matters worse.

珍妮： 給她壓力可能會使事情變得更糟。

William: Who’s putting pressure on her? Maybe I can help her by getting her tutors in every subject and enrolling her in summer programs.

威廉：誰給她壓力了?或許我可以每科給她請個老師輔導她，再給她報個暑假項目。

Jeannie: Maybe she just needs more time…

珍妮： 可能她需要更多時間。

William: And let her waste her potential? What kind of father would I be then?

威廉：然后讓她浪費自己的天賦?那我成了什么樣的父親了?