那所极烂的高中把我送入了“藤校”！ - 女儿从哈佛发给我的文章 陈巍博士 Jan,2016 在公司里，突然收到刚刚离开高中进入大学第一学期女儿发来的email: “Interesting Article I Read ”然后是文章的链接。下面是原文与翻译： 在进入高中的第一天，走在高中校园的大门里，我跟妈妈说，“妈妈，我第一天听到的F-炸弹的次数远比我以前一生的总和还多。” 我的妈妈，一位永远的乐观主义者，提醒我，要去东高中曾是我自己的决定，我最终肯定要去适应它。 Walking in the door after my first day of highschool, I announced, 'Mom, I heard the F-bomb more times just today than Ihave in my entire life.' My mom, ever the optimist, reminded me that goingto East High School had been my decision and that I'd surely get used to iteventually.
自从威斯康星州实施计划，学校必须提呈年度报告卡，我的高中每年都赢得了“失败”或“几乎无望”的评级。如此烂的高中不仅没有“毁掉”我，我把我成功的成长成如今的我的功劳归于我的高中; 没有东高，我不相信我会成功进入诺特丹大学。你可能会问，一所如此差的高中学如何能将毕业生送入美国前二十名的大学？简单地说，东高改变了我看待生活的方式与态度。我坚定地认为，虽然根据州里的测试我的高中是“失败的”，我绝不认为它是一个失败。 Every year since Wisconsin implemented schoolreport cards, my high school has earned a 'failing' or 'meetsfew expectations' rating. Far from failing me, I credit Green Bay EastHigh School with making me into the successful young adult I am; without East,I don't believe I would have gotten into Notre Dame. How can a school like thisproduce successful graduates, you may ask, and how on earth does it get someoneinto a top 20 college? Plain and simple, East changed the way I look at life. Ifirmly believe that although by state testing my school is 'failing,'it is by no means a failure.
On my first day of high school, I entered a world differentfrom the sheltered Catholic elementary school that I'd attended for eightyears, and, I'd argue, a world unbelievably different from the wonderful --although limiting -- bubble where I currently live. At the time, high schoolseemed horribly intimidating: My fellow students in middle school had calledEast 'the ghetto school;' they had written in my yearbook,'Don't get stabbed, Sophia!' Needless to say, I wondered the firstfew weeks why I'd turned down my admission at the local private high school infavor of culture shock and swear words shouted down the hallway. I saw exactlywhat I expected, and chose, to see: disruptive students, unengaged in theireducation.
However hard thosefirst few weeks were, after a while, I realized my mom was right. I did getused to it. In fact, I learned to not just survive, but also thrive, at the'ghetto school.' East gave me a perspective that so many people wholive in these 'bubbles' of selective, private, upper-middle classschools never gain. I had the challenge, and the privilege, of attending aschool where I was in the minority, being Caucasian, and where seventy percentof students' families' incomes qualified them for free or reduced-price schoollunches. (Full price, lunch cost about two dollars a day.) Students overcamesituations that I've never had to face: The kid who drove me crazy in French classwas facing his parents getting deported. Our cross country coach bought one ofour best runner's shoes because his parents simply could not afford them. Myfriend could not participate in a musical because her single mom worked twojobs and there was no one else to watch her younger brother. 东高的多样性让我找到我自己，自由地尽我的愿望。我不需要去适应去符合一个别人为我固定的框架。在东高，我生活在一个真实的世界里；在这个世界里，尽管人们并不总是在他们的第一次，第二次，甚至第三次尝试中把事情做对，但他们仍然继续地努力尝试着。所以，我也可以这样做。在东高的世界里，很多人都没有我习以为常的机会与资源，这让我看意识到我一直是多么有福，多么幸运。在东高这一个世界里，人们关于移民或单亲家庭的“简单”问题的课堂讨论的出发点与视角是如此不同，教会了我如何从多个方向看待问题。这四年我在东高学到了这一点，还有更多其它的生活的无价之宝。 East High School'sdiversity has allowed me to define myself in whatever way I wish. There was nomold, no box that I needed to fit into in order to be accepted. At East, Ilived in the real world: a world where people don't always get it right ontheir first, second, or even third attempt, but still keep trying. So, I canhave permission to do the same. East is a world where everyone did not have thesame opportunities as I have been so fortunate to have, allowing me to see howblessed I really am. East is a world where everyone approached a simpleclassroom discussion about immigration or single parents from a whole range ofpoints of view, teaching me to see issues from multiple directions. I learnedthis and so much more from my four years at East High.
I believe that my'failing school' made me into the successful young adult I am todayand will continue to shape my future. Because of my four years in thisenvironment, I firmly believe that school report cards give a woefullyinaccurate view of the value of a school. So much of what a school can teach astudent cannot be quantified by two days of state testing, a graduation rate,and a handful of statistics. 东高满足了我的些许期望- 我真的非常高兴。 East High School didmeet few of my expectations -- and how glad I am that it did. Sophia Kiernan （Sophia is a sophomorestudying sociology at the University of Notre Dame, with aspirations to be adoctor. While not struggling through Organic Chemistry, Sophia enjoys singingeverything from church hymns to show tunes, cheering for the her hometown team,the Green Bay Packers, and watching every single show choir video on YouTube.After attending a high-poverty urban high school by choice, Sophia looksforward to bringing her different perspective to the world of top tier highereducation.） 【版权声明】文章属于作者原创，版权归 “磐石心语” 所有。欢迎转载，请注明出处公众号ID:Rock_wordsfromheart 探讨问题请联系微信号：1274264498 |
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