首页
登录
职称英语
Competition for admission to the country’s top private schools has always be
Competition for admission to the country’s top private schools has always be
游客
2023-08-23
41
管理
问题
Competition for admission to the country’s top private schools has always been tough, but this year Elisabeth Krents realized it had reached a new level. Her wake-up call came when a man called the Dalton School in Manhattan, where Krents is admission director, and inquired about the age cut off for their kindergarten program. After providing the information(they don’t use an age cut off), she asked about the age of his child. The man paused for an uncomfortably long time before answering. "Well, we don’t have a child yet," he told Krents. "We’re trying to figure out when to conceive a child so the birthday is not a problem."
School obsession is spreading from Manhattan to the rest of the country. Precise current data on private schools are unavailable, but interviews with representatives of independent and religious schools all told the same story: a glut of applicants, higher rejection rates. "We have people calling us for spots two years down the road," said Marilyn Collins of the Seven Hills School in Cincinnati. "We have grandparents calling for pregnant daughters." Public-opinion poll after poll indicates that Americans’ No. 1 concern is education. Now that the long economic boom has given parents more disposable income, many are turning to private schools, even at price tags of well over $10,000 a year. "We ’re getting applicants from a broader area, geographically, than we ever have in the past," said Betsy Haugh of the Latin School of Chicago, which experienced a 20 percent increase in applications this year.
The problem for the applicants is that while demand has increased, supply has not. "Every year, there are a few children who do not find places, but this year, for the first time that I know, there are a significant number of children who don’t have places," said Krents, who also heads a private-school admission group in New York.
So what can parents do to give their 4-year-old an edge? Schools know there is no foolproof way to pick a class when children are so young. Many schools give preference to siblings or alumni children. Some use lotteries. But most rely on a mix of subjective and objective measures: tests that at best identify developmental maturity and cognitive potential, interviews with parents and observation of applicants in classroom settings. They also want a diverse mix. Children may end up on a waiting list simply because their birthdays fall at the wrong time of year, or because too many applicants were boys.
The worst thing a parent can do is to pressure preschoolers to perform—for example, by pushing them to read or do math exercises before they’re ready. Instead, the experts say, parents should take a breath and look for alternatives. Another year in preschool may be all that’ s needed. Parents, meanwhile, may need a more open mind about relatively unknown private schools—or about magnet schools in the public system. There’ s no sign of the private-school boom letting up. Dalton’ s spring tours, for early birds interested in the 2001-2002 school year, are filled. The wait list? Forget it. That’s closed, too. [br] Which one of the following should parents avoid to do according to the passage?
选项
A、To force children to learn.
B、To search for other choices.
C、To be relaxed.
D、To open minds.
答案
A
解析
细节题。题干问,根据原文家长应该避免做什么?定位于原文最后一段第一句,“The worst thing a parent can do is to pressure preschoolers to perform--forexample,by pushing them to read or do math exercises before they’re ready.”意思是,家长最不应该给学前儿童压力,比如在他们还没准备好时,逼他们阅读或做数学题。选项A与原文意思相违背,所以选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2949672.html
相关试题推荐
TheAmericaneconomicsystemisorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate【B1】_____
TheAmericaneconomicsystemisorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate【B1】_____
TheAmericaneconomicsystemisorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate【B1】_____
TheAmerican【C1】______system,isorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterp
TheAmerican【C1】______system,isorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterp
TheAmerican【C1】______system,isorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterp
TheAmerican【C1】______system,isorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterp
TheAmerican【C1】______system,isorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterp
TheAmerican【C1】______system,isorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterp
TheAmerican【C1】______system,isorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterp
随机试题
Whatdoesthepassagemainlydiscuss?[br]Accordingtothepassage,whyisth
过去十年中国房地产(realestate)行业高速发展。Thepastdecadehaswitnessedahigh-speeddevelopm
《水利水电工程标准施工招标条件》(2009)的通用条件规定,工程变更按下列原则确
(2016年)2019年5月,李某从某汽车4s店(一般纳税人)购入一辆排气量为2
某医师在为患者施行右侧乳房肿瘤摘除术时,发现左侧乳房也有肿瘤,当即进行活检,确诊
一笔8年期的公司贷款,商业银行允许展期的最长期限是()年。A.1 B.8
病人如果出现阿-斯综合征,最可能的诊断是A.室上性心动过速 B.室性心动过速
对类风湿性关节炎具有较高诊断价值的检测项目为A:RFB:CRPC:ANAD
在进行建设项目的环境影响评价时,正确的工作程序是:A.工程分析和环境质量现状调
为了做到法律协助执行与保护客户隐私并重,在实践工作中,从业人员应该做到()。
最新回复
(
0
)