Text 2 Disruptive students are a headach

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问题 Text 2 Disruptive students are a headache for public schools.They distract from lessons,skip class,and often bring down the graduation rates.That's why school districts across the country have resorted to opening altemative schools in recent decades,with hopes that smaller classes and individual attention might help these students get their diplomas.But even these alternative schools（which differ from charter schools in that they are still part of school districts and thus answer to supervisors）can be a burden:They're expensive to run,and their graduation rates are still pretty low.Desperate for help,many school districts are now hiring private companies to manage these altemative schools and educate their most troublesome students.Large,urban districts like Chicago and Philadelphia have been working with this emerging industry for several years now.Though research shows that problematic students in Philadelphia did better in alternative schools than traditional ones,there is a wide variance in school quality,and detailed information about their curricula is scarce.The question on the table is whether a business whose job it is to make money can better educate vulnerable students than a public system with no profit motive.It's not too different from the dynamic between the federal government and the private companies running its prisons across the country.But the Justice Department announced last week that it would stop contracting with the private sector,in part because it doesn't seem to save that much money,and in part because the service didn't improve either.Richmond is one of the latest cities to experiment with outsourcing education.In July,the city hired a Texas-based company called Camelot Education to run the Richmond Altemative SchooL which last year served 223 students from across the city in grades 6 through 11.Nearly all of the students at Richmond Alternative are black（97 percent）and most are poor（87 percent qualify for free lunches）.Somc black parents once dubbed it the"colored children's prison"and it has been criticized for contributing to what's called the school-to-prison pipeline-Virginia is the state that refers the most students to law enforcement.Data provided by Richmond's school district shows that its altemative school has been floundering for years,When the school year ended three months ago,the numbers were alarming:The dropout rate had jumped to 38 percent,compared t0 28 percent just two years earlier.And students'scores in nearly every subject had fallen by 50 percent or more during that time.Parents of disruptive kids hold the view that alternative school_____A.is tolerant to colored childrenB.should punish students for violating lawsC.contributes to the crime of disruptive studentsD.limits the freedom ofblack children

选项 A.is tolerant to colored children
B.should punish students for violating laws
C.contributes to the crime of disruptive students
D.limits the freedom ofblack children

答案 C

解析推理判断题。根据定位词定位到第四段。该段提到父母认为非传统学校是所谓的“有色人种儿童监狱”，可见他们认为非传统学校助长了问题学生的犯罪，故C项为正确选项。【干扰排除】黑人父母认为非传统学校是“有色人种儿童监狱”，可见非传统学校对这些孩子不够容忍，故A项错误；文中没有提到父母认为学校应该处罚学生，B项错误；这些父母认为非传统学校是监狱，这是一种比喻和夸张的说法，这些非传统学校并不是真的监狱，没有限制孩子的自由，故D项错误。

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Text 2 Disruptive students are a headach

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