An article on the education of foreign children in primary and junior high schools

1. A reading class in the United States

Author: (Wandering Desert)

The manuscript is from: Shenzhen Youth

The bell rang and the children ran into the classroom. In this class, the teacher is going to tell the story of Cinderella.

The teacher asked a child to come to the stage to tell the story to his classmates. When the child finished speaking quickly, the teacher thanked him and began to ask questions to the class.

teacher: which story do you like? Which one do you dislike? Why?

student: I like Cinderella and the prince, but I don't like her stepmother and her stepmother's sister. Cindy

Lara is kind, lovely and beautiful. Stepmother and sister treat Cinderella badly.

Teacher: If Cinderella didn't have time to jump into her pumpkin carriage at midnight, think about it, but

what would happen?

Student: Cinderella will be dirty and wearing shabby clothes. Oh, that would be terrible.

teacher: so, you must be punctual, or you may get yourself into trouble. Besides, you see,

every one of you is dressed up at ordinary times, so don't suddenly appear in front of others, or your friends will be scared. Girls, you should pay more attention to it. In the future, when you grow up and date boys, if you don't pay attention and your boyfriend sees your ugly appearance, they may be scared (the teacher faints and the whole class laughs)

.

teacher: ok, next question: if you were Cinderella's stepmother, would you stop Cinderella from going to the prince's

ball? You must be honest!

Student: (After a while, a child raised his hand to answer) Yes, if I were Cinderella's stepmother, I would also stop her from going to the prince's ball.

teacher: why?

student: because, because I love my daughter, I hope her to be a queen.

Teacher: Yes, so it seems that all the stepmother we see are bad people. They are just not good enough for others, but they

are good to their children. Do you understand? They are not bad people, but they can't love other children as much as their own children.

Teacher: Next question, children: Cinderella's stepmother won't let her go to the prince's dance, and even locked the door

. Why can she go and become the most beautiful girl at the dance?

Student: Because a fairy helped her, gave her beautiful clothes, and turned pumpkins into carriages and dogs and mice into servants.

teacher: yes, you speak very well! Come to think of it, if Cinderella didn't get help from the fairy, she couldn't have gone to the

dance, could she?

student: yes!

teacher: if neither the dog nor the mouse is willing to help her, could she successfully run home at the last moment?

Student: No, then she can successfully scare the prince. (The class laughs again)

Teacher: Although Cinderella has fairies to help her, it is not enough to have fairies to help her. Therefore, children, wherever

goes, we need friends. Our friends are not necessarily fairies, but we need them, and I

hope you have many friends.

Teacher: Next, please think about it. If Cinderella gave up the opportunity because her stepmother didn't want her to attend the dance, would she

become the bride of the prince?

student: no! In that case, she won't go to the dance, and the prince won't see, know and fall in love with her.

teacher: exactly! If Cinderella doesn't want to go to the ball, it's useless if her stepmother doesn't stop her or even support her. Who decided that she should go to the prince's ball?

student: herself.

Teacher: So, children, that is, Cinderella doesn't have a mother who loves her, and her stepmother doesn't love her, which can't make her not

love herself. It is because she loves herself that she can find what she wants. If some of you feel unloved, or have a stepmother who doesn't love her like Cinderella, what will you do?

student: love yourself!

Teacher: Yes, no one can stop you from loving yourself. If you think others don't love you enough, you should love yourself doubly

; If others don't give you a chance, you should give yourself a double chance; If you really love yourself, you will

find what you need for yourself-no one can stop Cinderella from attending the prince's ball, and no one can stop Cinderella from becoming a queen except herself. Right?

student: yes! ! !

teacher: last question, what is unreasonable about this story?

Student: (After a while) Everything has to be changed back to its original state after midnight, but Cinderella's glass shoes

haven't changed back.

teacher: my god, you are great! You see, even great writers sometimes make mistakes, so making mistakes is not a terrible thing. I promise, if any of you wants to be a writer in the future, it will be better than this writer! Do you believe in

?

the children cheered.

2. What is taught in American middle schools?

Tian Yan (San Francisco, USA)

Originally, the author was not qualified to gossip about American secondary education. However, in the summer of 23, I

took my child to the United States, and then sent him to a private middle school by mistake. Since then, as parents,

we have to get 7-8 "contact letters" from the school every week, including report, canteen menu, picnics, club activities, lectures

reports and charitable donations, etc., and we have to be called to the school once a month to participate in

volunteer activities. At the same time, we are almost appointed to meet the class teacher once a month. Then, there is a kind of awakening, and the middle school < P > education in the United States is so.

strange admission system

-jumping one grade in public schools and dropping one grade in private schools

In March p>23, our family moved from Tokyo, Japan to San Francisco, which is called the most livable city in the United States, but its

is only under the prestigious name. In addition to climate, scenery and transportation, people are concerned about housing, education and price, which are enough to make San Francisco residents feel cold. Before coming to the United States, considering that the child is in the sixth grade in China and will graduate in 3

months, I think it is better to let him come to the United States after graduating from primary school. I didn't expect to wait so long, but I actually waited for

a big problem.

San Francisco is a typical immigrant city. Asians account for 1/3 of the city's population, while whites account for less than 1/3. Most of the rest are

blacks, Mexicans and other Hispanics. Three years ago, under the banner of fair education, several members of the city council put forward the so-called "diversified education bill", which broke the traditional way of allocating places for students to study nearby by region. By

mixing sand, some students from Asian and white residential areas were allowed to study in schools in black and Mexican residential areas, and

the vacant places were distributed to students living in black and Mexican residential areas. When my child came to the United States, it just happened to catch up with the implementation of this policy. Not only was he not assigned to Yuping Middle School in Youfang, which is less than half a mile away from home, but he was not assigned to Harvard Middle School, which is only one mile away from home, but he was assigned to Aitao Middle School, which is three miles away from home. First of all, the school hours have increased < P >. Secondly, Aitutao Middle School is a school with a majority of blacks and Mexicans. The average score of students in English is 52 < P > and that in mathematics is 45. How can such a school get there?

So, with our children, we went to the allocation center of the city's United campus to express our dissatisfaction, but we didn't expect to hear such fucking words as "take it or

move out of San Francisco". Later, I heard that during the period from August 25th to September 21st, parents of about 2

5 Chinese students were dissatisfied with the allocation of places in the allocation center of the United campus, and took their children to sit in front of the building of the allocation center of the campus every day to protest, until they forced the allocation center of the campus to readjust the schools where they were allocated. However, for us, when the bureaucrat in the campus assignment center said that he would either move out of San Francisco, he no longer expected these American bureaucrats to have any kindness.

Since I don't expect to attend a designated public school, I have only one choice left, and I want to attend a private school. Inquire down, there are two types of private schools in San Francisco. One kind is purely private schools. These schools often need history and style.

Apart from other things, only those antique buildings can be awe-inspiring at first glance. Of course, the

fees of these schools are generally between 12, and 2, USD/year. Another kind of private school is the missionary school. At first glance, this kind of school is no different from the public school in appearance except that it is close to the church. However, in terms of fees, perhaps because

has a religious background, it is somewhat timid, and the standard is generally between .5 million and 1, US dollars/year.

After a cursory inspection of several schools, we finally chose a Catholic school-Saint Anne School.

Therefore, the choice of this school, in addition to the school fees will not make us too embarrassed, but also its cultural accumulation. According to

, it is the best missionary school in San Francisco, with a history of 15 years. Of course, there is its management. After students enter the school, they can't leave the school until the afternoon. In addition, there is its distance, which is closest to our home and only takes 1

minutes to walk.

However, just as we made the decision, a new question came to us. Which grade should children attend? According to the general

convention, it is natural for children to go to the United States to study in the seventh grade after graduating from the sixth grade. However, in the United States, students in public schools

are enrolled according to their age, so when applying for public schools, children are put into the eighth grade by the United campus according to American rules. By the way, the educational system in the United States is five years in elementary school, three years in junior high school and four years in senior high school. Grade 8 is equivalent to Grade 3 < P >. Unexpectedly, when applying for a private school, the child was asked to reread the sixth grade, that is, the first grade. You have to skip a grade in public schools and drop a grade in private schools. Where do you start? The headmaster is also calm, and the children can't keep up with English. This < P > year is the foundation of playing English. At the same time, I took out a sixth-grade literature textbook, pointed to one of the chapters, and asked < P > children to translate it on the spot. The result is self-evident. In this way, we finally have to agree to the arrangement of the school.

People often say that schools in China are a hell of exams, but in fact, aren't American schools? Although < P >, primary and secondary schools in the United States don't have a first-level entrance examination as in China, and schools are ranked according to the results of the entrance examination. However,

public schools still have a national unified "California Examination", while the children's missionary schools also have a national unified examination every year in a private school. Compared with public schools, the contents of the examination are more extensive, including mathematics, English (divided into three parts: grammar, spelling and literature), society (divided into two parts: history and geography) and science. It is precisely because of the existence of such an examination baton that in order to ensure the "quality" of the school, when accepting foreign students, private schools tend to deliberately lower the grade of students.

Ironically, just two weeks after our children entered school, we received a letter

signed by Jacqmin, the superintendent of San Francisco United Campus, warning us that if our children were not allowed to go to Aitutao Middle School, the United Campus might sue us for violating the education law. Angry, I wrote a letter back to the Chancellor of Jacqmin, which contained many sarcastic remarks < P >. After the letter was sent, it was like a mud cow going into the sea, and there was no news. Of course, what is equally silent is the so-called "< P > legal means" of the United Campus. Interestingly, just a few days ago, I watched the TV news in San Francisco and said that in view of the dissatisfaction of Chinese parents with the proposal of "multiple < P > unification", the relevant departments of the municipal government had set up a three-member group to hold a hearing on the implementation results of the proposal.

Different shades of classroom teaching

—— Math mashing and profoundness of science

At home, even in Japan, there is a popular view that the quality of American education and university education is good

, while primary and secondary education lacks basic training, which is simply "Ya Ya Wu". Including my old mother-in-law, who has taught in university all her life < P >, therefore said that a good child could not be sent to the United States to read the "book led by seven buddha's third child".

To be honest, I was a little worried about whether children can learn anything in American schools from the beginning. Perhaps

it is for this reason that, after failing to enter the desired public school, they will immediately arrange for their children to attend private schools without considering the financial burden. In the United States, it is generally acknowledged that the quality of teaching in private schools is higher than that in public schools. Otherwise, who will pay for private education?

However, when I met the headmaster in Saint Anne school, because my children's learning advantage lies in mathematics, when I was in China, I was a member of the school's mathematics

Olympic training team and participated in the provincial mathematics competition. Therefore, when introducing yourself, you will lose no time to

recommend your child's math subject to the principal. Unexpectedly, after hearing such words as Mathematical Olympics, the headmaster immediately indicated that the mathematics class in Saint Anne school is only a concept teaching, and the requirement for students is only to master some basic concepts of mathematics. As for the Olympic competition, the school does not advocate such special training. After hearing the headmaster's words, the first thought that crossed my mind was not to let the children "destroy" in America.

this worry soon became a reality. On the third day after the start of school, the school distributed a lot of textbooks, including a math textbook with 6 pages. The book is quite thick, but what is the content? Anxious to open