新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第三册 te-unit03-a

[-1:-7.00]The parents agree in writing to meet monthly in one of 20 regional groups,
[-1:-8.00]go to a yearly three-day regional retreat,
[-1:-9.00]and spend at least three times a year in workshops,
[-1:10.00]discussion groups and seminars at Bath.
[-1:11.00]Parents of Maine students have an attendance rate of 95% in the many sessions.
[-1:12.00]Joe and Malcolm Gauld both say children tend to do their utmost
[-1:13.00]when they see their parents making similar efforts.
[-1:14.00]The biggest obstacle for many parents,they say,
[-1:15.00]is to realize their own weaknesses.
[-1:16.00]15  The process for public school parents is still being worked out,
[-1:17.00]with a lot more difficulty
[-1:18.00]because it is difficult to convince parents
[-1:19.00]that it is worthwhile for them to participate.
[-1:20.00]Of the 100 students enrolled in New Haven,
[-1:21.00]about 30% of the parents attend special meetings.
[-1:22.00]The low attendance is in spite of commitments they made at the outset of the program
[-1:23.00]when Hyde officials interviewed 300 families.
[-1:24.00]16  Once the problems are worked out,
[-1:25.00]Hyde should work well in public school,
[-1:26.00]says a teacher at Bath who taught for 14 years in public schools.
[-1:27.00]He is optimistic that once parents make a commitment to the program,
[-1:28.00]they will be daily role models for their children,
[-1:29.00]unlike parents whose children are in boarding schools.
[-1:30.00]17  One former inner-city high school teacher
[-1:31.00]who now works in the New Haven program,
[-1:32.00]says teachers also benefit.
[-1:33.00]"Here we really begin to focus on having a fruitful relationship with each student.
[-1:34.00]Our focus is really about teacher to student
[-1:35.00]and then we together deal with the ... academics.
[-1:36.00]In the traditional high school setting,
[-1:37.00]it's teacher to the material and then to the student."
[-1:38.00]The teacher-student relationship is taken even further at Hyde.
[-1:39.00]Faculty evaluations are conducted by the students.
[-1:40.00]18  Jimmy DiBattista, 19, is amazed he will graduate this May
[-1:41.00]from the Bath campus and plans to attend a university.
[-1:42.00]Years ago, he had seen his future as "jail, not college".
[-1:43.00]19  DiaBattista remembers his first days at Hyde.
[-1:44.00]20  "When I came here, I insulted and cursed everybody.
[-1:45.00]Every other school was, 'Get out, we don't want to deal with you.'
[-1:46.00]I came here and they said,
[-1:47.00]'We kind of like that spirit.
[-1:48.00]We don't like it with the negative attitudes.
[-1:49.00]We want to turn that spirit positive."