问题少女改造记(下)

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  上一期,我们见识了洛蕾塔这个叛逆女生的种种恶行:迟到早退、不交作业、没礼貌、爱和妈妈吵架……这些都让来到她家的达德利老师愤怒不已又十分无奈。达德利老师最终能否化腐朽为神奇?而年纪轻轻的洛蕾塔又是否真的是朽木不可雕?别着急,我们一起来见证这段难忘的经历吧。
  
  After a 1)shaky start, Miss Dudley gets her rule plan back on track.
  Miss Dudley: Mom, what do you want on this list?
  Mother: That we respect each other.
  Miss Dudley: Can you give me an example of what you would class as respect from them?
  Mother: We don’t 2)talk down to each other, which tends…
  Loretta: 3)Negativity.
  Mother: …to happen. Yes, negativity.
  Miss Dudley: That’s a good word.
  Loretta: Treat others how you want to be treated.
  Miss Dudley: OK.
  Mother: Homework must be done every day.
  Miss Dudley: At 7:45 have breakfast, then off to school.
  For once the family have cooperated. But will they stick to the rules?
  Mother: Loretta, will you please come in the house, NOW!
  After supper, Loretta’s already ignoring the new rules and 4)slacking on the dishwashing.
  Usually, Mom would give in and do the washing up. But Miss Dudley’s determined that she enforces the rules.
  Miss Dudley: …had to get the other two in and in the5)lounge, and then I’d just go out, not shouting at her, and just say “you need to put the bat and ball down and if you’re not gonna come inside and do the washing up, then you’re gonna go up to your room and you’re not gonna watch TV all night,” so you need to let her think about what the 6)consequences of that are.
  Mom’s first tough line works, but Miss Dudley wonders if she can keep it up.
  
  It’s seven AM on Thursday morning.
  Miss Dudley: Oh this is brilliant! Five past seven and you’re up and dressed.
  Mother: And she was in the shower before I got out of bed.
  Miss Dudley: Last night it was extremely difficult to get through to Loretta and spent a long time talking to her. It is great that she’s up and she’s in a good mood and she’s really efficient this morning. She’s done her own ironing and she’s dressed and she’s drying her hair.
  
  It’s Miss Dudley’s last day with Loretta. She needs something more. She wants to try a gamble that, if it works, could7)cement the change, but if it fails, could destroy Loretta’s confidence. Loretta will turn teacher to a class at her old primary school.
  (After the class)
  Miss Dudley: You were amazing in there! Did you feel like you were amazing?
  Loretta: Yeah, I don’t know. I just thought it felt weird.
  Miss Dudley: I’m so proud of you. I was, like, standing at the back and just really proud of you. Are you proud of yourself?
  Loretta: Yeah.
  
  It’s the end of the week and Miss Dudley calls both Mom and Dad to school to discuss how things will carry on without her.
  Loretta is called in.
  Miss Dudley: What we’ve been talking about in here is you and how proud we are of you and what we’ve agreed is that Mom will put in a hundred percent at home to stick to those routine and rules, and Dad will put it in at his, and we will do that in school. So this is something that you…you have to work at, and you’ve been working at it brilliantly this week.
  Loretta: I’ve enjoyed the week.
  
  Miss Dudley: It’s worthwhile, all this work, to see that change in a student. I wish that every kid—they needed a teacher in their home. I wish that they would have the opportunity to do it, because the change in Loretta this week is massive.
  I think it’s just made me realize that, you know, we are taught to think about what’s going on with these kids at home and to think about what affects their learning and behaviour. It’s just remembering that every single lesson as a teacher and, you know, appreciating what is going on for these kids.
  For a once 8)troublesome pupil, having a teacher in the house has been a life-changing experience.
  Loretta: Before, like, I was really hot-headed and I just got angry really quick, but now, like, control of my anger more and I’m, like, apparently I’m a nice person.
  
  尽管开始不太顺利,达德利老师最终还是让她之前那个制定规矩的计划重回正轨。
  达德利老师:妈妈,你想在这张单子上写上什么呢?
  妈妈:写上我们要相互尊重。
  达德利老师:你能举个例子说明怎样界定相互尊重吗?
  妈妈:我们说话不能贬损对方,那种情况会……
  洛蕾塔:负面话。
  妈妈:……发生。对,负面话。
  达德利老师:不错的词。
  洛蕾塔:己所不欲,勿施于人。
  达德利老师:对。
  妈妈:必须每天都完成功课。
  达德利老师:早上7点45分吃早餐,然后上学。
  这家人首次这么互相配合。但他们会遵守规定吗?
  妈妈:洛蕾塔,请你立刻到屋子里来!
  晚饭后,洛蕾塔就已经无视新规定了:她不去洗碗。
  一般情况下,妈妈会就这么放弃了,自己把碗给洗了。但达德利老师坚决要她推行新规定。
  达德利老师:……得把其他两个孩子叫进客厅里来,然后走到外面去,不要对她吼,只需要跟她说,“把球拍和球放下,要是不到屋里把碗洗了,那你就得回到自己的房间去,整晚都没电视看”,你得让她明白不遵守规定的后果。
  妈妈初次的严厉话语起了作用,但达德利老师不知道她能否这么坚持下去。
  
  现在是周四早上7点钟。
  达德利老师:噢,真了不起!才7点过5分,你就起床穿好衣服了。
  妈妈:我还没起床她就已经在洗澡了。
  达德利老师:昨晚给洛蕾塔做了很多思想工作,跟她谈了很长时间,过程实在是太艰难了。现在她已经起床了,并且心情很好,今早非常有效率,这太棒了。她已经把自己的衣物熨好了,并且穿好了衣服,正在吹头发。
  
  今天是达德利老师跟洛蕾塔待在一起的最后一天。她想要做更多的事情。她想撒手一搏,要是成功了,改造成果就更加稳固了,但要是失败了,那就会打击洛蕾塔的自信心。洛蕾塔会在她以前就读的小学为孩子们上一节课。
  (课后)
  达德利老师:你站在上面太不可思议了!你有觉得自己不可思议吗?
  洛蕾塔:嗯,我不知道。我只是觉得那感觉有点古怪。
  达德利老师:我真为你感到骄傲。我站在后面,真替你骄傲。你有为自己感到骄傲吗?
  洛蕾塔:有。
  
  一个星期到了尾声,达德利老师叫上妈妈和爸爸到学校来讨论她离开后如何保持这势头。
  洛蕾塔也被叫了进去。
  达德利老师:我们一直在这儿讨论关于你的事情,在说我们多为你感到骄傲,并且我们都达成一致意见,妈妈会在家里百分百继续推行那些日常规则和规定,爸爸也会在他家推行,我们在学校里也一样。所以,这是你得继续努力的,而你在这个星期里一直都做得很好。
  洛蕾塔:我很享受这一周。
  
  达德利老师:看到学生有这种变化,所有的这些工作都很值得。我希望每个孩子——他们需要有老师到他们家里去。我希望他们能有这种机会,因为洛蕾塔在这一周的改变实在太大了。
  我觉得这让我意识到,你知道,让我们学会了思考学生们在家里发生了什么事,并且思考是什么因素影响了学生的学习和表现。这提醒老师们,作为老师,每一节课,你知道,就是要明白孩子们身上发生了什么事情。
  对于一个曾经的问题学生,有老师到家里来与之生活,成了一段改变人生的经历。
  洛蕾塔:嗯,在以前,我是个急性子,很容易生气,但现在,我更好地控制住了自己的怒火,而且我觉得,嗯,看来我是个不错的人。
  
  翻译:未几
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