"It hurns me more than you", and "This is for your own good." These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calcalators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with. children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon. Klompus who says of her students--"so passive"--and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children's passivity. "We're not training kids to work any more," says Klompus. "We're talking about a generation of kids who"ve never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying 'go look it up', you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid. "
Yes,it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.
1. Children are bedoming more inactive in study because _______.
(A) they watch TV too often
(B) thev have done too much homework
(C) they have to fulfil too many duties
(D) teachers are too strict with them
2. To such children as described in the passage _______.
(A) it is easier to say no than to say yes
(B) neither is easy-to say yes or to say no
(C) it is easier to say yes than to say no
(D) neither is difficult-to say yes or to say no
3. We learn from the passage that the author's mother used to lay emphasis on _______.
(A) learning Latin
(B) natural development
(C) discipline
(D) edocation at school
4. By "permissive period in education" the author means a time _______.
(A) when children are allowed to do what they wish to
(B) when everything can be taught at school
(C) when every child can be edacated
(D) when children are permitted to receive education
5. The main idea of the passage is that _______.
(A) parents should leave their children alone
(B) kids should have more activities at school
(C) it's time to be more strict with our kids
(D) parents shouId always set a good example to their kids
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