GRE作文范文 Issue-19

"Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators."

嘉文博譯Sample Essay

Local schools are an integral part of a society and of each individual community. Much of what happens in a community is directly tied in to the local schools, whether the members of that community's children are of school age or not. The quality of the local schools also depends a great deal on the community. If the schools are well supported, they generally will be good quality schools. If the community ignores or contributes to the school's problems, the schools and students may not perform to the best of their abilities. Without the involvement of parents and the surrounding communities, professional educators cannot do their jobs properly. Additionally, the involvement of the parents ensures that educators will keep the school children as their first priority, rather than focusing on maximizing personal profits through teachers unions and the like.

Traditionally in years past, the parents and communities cooperated to set up schools to serve all the children in a particular location. As the United States has become larger, local, state and federal governments have become further involved, thus lessening the responsibilities of the parents with regards to the schools. Parents cannot and should not abdicate all of their responsibilities to the various governmental bodies, however. It remains incumbent upon the parents and communities to remain involved in as many aspects of the local schools as they can.

First of all, the most fundamental responsibility of the parents is that they must ensure that their own children are properly dressed, on time and actually behaving themselves in the classrooms. Professional educators cannot properly teach children that don't know how to behave while at school. Other children are distracted or maybe even misled to misbehave themselves by children who are chronically disruptive. Parents must control their own children and not leave the job of child behavioral training to the teachers at school.

Secondly, parents and communities must make sure that they contribute financially to their local schools, and not only by the mandatory payment of taxes to the government. School groups are always trying to raise money for some beneficial school projects. It is important that parents do not turn their backs when school children come door to door asking for money, even when (and maybe especially when) it is not their own children who are asking for help.

Furthermore, parents have more than just a financial responsibility to the local schools, they also have an obligation to give generously of their time whenever possible. Attending their own child's sports games and recitals are certainly important. Volunteering to coach, referee or to help organize activities for the school children are also extremely important. Local schools seem to never have enough help to accomplish all that needs to be done or to accomplish all that should be done. Just ask any teacher or professional educator, they can probably find a place for any volunteer that desires to help.

Finally, parents and communities must be involved with local schools just to be sure that the professional educators are indeed "professional" and are giving the children the proper educational basics that they need. Direct and continuous communications with a teacher or principal can sometimes give parents all the information that they need to decide whether he or she is properly fit for the job. Powerful teachers unions have developed over the years that sometimes tend to put the teachers first and the priorities of the children second. By staying involved with the local schools, parents and the communities can show the educators that they are committed to the children and the schools, and that they should always remember whom the schools were built for in the first place.

The success or failure of a local school depends almost entirely on the involvement of parents and the local community. The parents and others in these communities must be willing to make sure that their own children are properly behaved, that they support the school both financially and with their time, and that the professional educators always put the well-being of the children as the number one priority.

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參考譯文

家長和社區(qū)都必須參與到地方學(xué)校對(duì)青少年的教育中去。教育的至關(guān)重要性決定了它不能只依靠專業(yè)的教育工作者

地方學(xué)校是整個(gè)社會(huì)及個(gè)人所屬的社區(qū)不可缺少的組成部分。無論社區(qū)中的孩子是否達(dá)到上學(xué)的年齡，這個(gè)社區(qū)發(fā)生的很多事情都會(huì)與其學(xué)校有著直接的聯(lián)系。地方學(xué)校的好壞也極大地依賴于它們所屬的社區(qū)。如果社區(qū)努力辦學(xué)，則學(xué)校的質(zhì)量就會(huì)很高。如果社區(qū)忽視學(xué)校的建設(shè)或者使學(xué)校產(chǎn)生一些問題，則學(xué)校就不能充分發(fā)揮其作用而學(xué)生的能力也得不到最好的開發(fā)。沒有家長和社區(qū)的支持，專業(yè)的教育工作者不能夠很好地開展工作。另外，家長的支持與監(jiān)督能保證教育者將孩子的教育放在最首位而避免他們將精力放在通過教師聯(lián)合會(huì)或其他類似組織來謀取個(gè)人利益上。

根據(jù)過去的傳統(tǒng)，家長和社區(qū)在特定的地區(qū)協(xié)力創(chuàng)辦學(xué)校，為當(dāng)?shù)厮械暮⒆犹峁┙逃ｋS著美國的擴(kuò)展，地方、各州及聯(lián)邦各級(jí)政府加大了對(duì)學(xué)校教育的扶持，因而家長對(duì)學(xué)校的責(zé)任有所減少。然而實(shí)際上，家長不能也不應(yīng)該放棄他們對(duì)學(xué)校教育承擔(dān)的責(zé)任而交由各種政府部門管理。家長和社區(qū)有義務(wù)盡可能多地參與地方學(xué)校各方面的工作。

首先，家長最基本的責(zé)任就是保證他們的孩子穿著得體地按時(shí)去上學(xué)并在課堂上有良好的表現(xiàn)。對(duì)那些連在學(xué)校應(yīng)該如何作為都不知道的孩子，專業(yè)的教育者不可能有效地進(jìn)行教育。還有的孩子可能會(huì)受到壞孩子的影響甚至被壞孩子誤導(dǎo)，做出不好的行為來。家長必須管教自己的孩子，不要把約束孩子行為表現(xiàn)的工作留給學(xué)校的老師來做。

其次，家長和社區(qū)必須在經(jīng)濟(jì)上支持地方學(xué)校而不僅僅是給政府繳納必需的稅款。學(xué)校團(tuán)體常常要為開展一些有益的學(xué)校計(jì)劃進(jìn)行募捐。當(dāng)孩子們上門來要求捐款，尤其是當(dāng)別人家的孩子上門來要求捐款時(shí)，家長不應(yīng)置之不理或予以拒絕，做到這一點(diǎn)是非常重要的。

而且，家長對(duì)地方學(xué)校負(fù)有的責(zé)任不應(yīng)該僅僅是在錢財(cái)上的支持，他們還應(yīng)該盡可能慷慨地將自己的時(shí)間投入到學(xué)校中去。參加自己孩子的運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)、朗誦會(huì)意義重大，主動(dòng)幫助學(xué)校的孩子們組織活動(dòng)，充當(dāng)教練或裁判也是極其重要的。地方學(xué)校在達(dá)成需要完成的工作或應(yīng)該完成的工作時(shí)似乎從未得到過充分的幫助。只要你愿意主動(dòng)幫忙，隨便問任何一個(gè)老師，都會(huì)找到需要你幫忙的地方。

最后，家長和社區(qū)參與到地方學(xué)校的工作中去可以確保那些專業(yè)的教育工作者確實(shí)是"專業(yè)"人員，確保他們能夠教授孩子所需的基礎(chǔ)知識(shí)。與老師和校長直接、頻繁的交流可以讓家長全面了解教師，看出他們是否適合教育這個(gè)崗位。近年來的發(fā)展使教師聯(lián)合會(huì)的權(quán)力增大，有時(shí)傾向于將教師放在首位而將對(duì)孩子的考慮放在其次。家長和社區(qū)對(duì)地方學(xué)校工作的參與能提示教師他們對(duì)孩子、學(xué)校負(fù)有的責(zé)任，讓他們記住學(xué)校首先是為誰設(shè)立的。

一所地方學(xué)校辦得成功與否幾乎完全依賴于家長和社區(qū)是否參與學(xué)校的工作。孩子的家長以及社區(qū)內(nèi)的其他成員都必須愿意確保自己的孩子表現(xiàn)良好，確保他們自己在金錢上和時(shí)間上給予了支持，而且學(xué)校的專業(yè)教育者們將孩子的利益放在了第一位。