美國老師安撫我焦慮的心

這幾天，我確實在為孩子的事情著急。主要問題是，孩子在原來的學校都是全A學生。搬到這裏後，因為孩子上了超前兩年級的尖子班，我又給孩子安排了很多課外功課，再加上我對孩子現在的功課又沒給予足夠的重視，致使孩子考試不理想。我知道，在批評孩子的同時，我也有錯誤。

我一直不明白，孩子7歲時讀"哈利波特"，10歲時讀"飄"，六年時寫作考試是10年級的水平。一向讓我們自豪的英文成績怎麽突然就不行了呢？疑惑中，老師給了我部分答案：孩子沒按時交作業。

這個學校是美國藍帶中學，學習風氣濃，老師要求嚴，就連國內的中學考察團都來這裏取經。身處這樣的學校，孩子真累呀，但家長又沒辦法。

今天上午，我給兩位相關老師寫了信，實事求是地介紹一下孩子的優點。現在已經得到英文老師的回複和鼓勵。讀了老師的信以後，俺心裏稍微敞亮點兒了。

俺先露一麵，匯報一下今天的進步。感謝新浪親子博克首頁推薦我的博客。今年，我大概會寫寫博文探討一下美國的中小學教育。

附上我和美國老師的交流記錄。自從俺下崗以來，俺的英文水平急劇下降。信寫的很一般。俺的目標是，隻要老師能看懂就行了。另外，信中俺家孩子的名字是假的。希望這樣的信息會對一些家長有所幫助。謝謝大家的評語和留言。我都讀到了，並且都記在心裏了。

我給老師寫的信：

Dear Mrs. J W:

First of all, Happy New Year to you!(先寒喧)

We feel very lucky to have you to be my daughter Nana‘s
English teacher. Thanks for your great effort and patience to my
child.(後表揚)

My family just moved here from St.Louis when Nana joined 8th
grade in BM School in August, 2007.  At her old school,
Nana was in the gifted class and was a straight A student. Since the
GT program here is largely different from the GT program in St. Louis,
Nana occasionally feels stress at school here and has to adjust her
routine study habit.(今昔對比)

Since Nana became a student at BM, I have made mistakes to educate Nana, because I asked her to do too many after school activities, like we did in St.Louis. This arrangement seriously affected her school performance. After we read her school report card and realized this problem, we are willing to adjust Nana's after school activities.(自我檢討)

During the winder break, Nana got up at 8 in the morning every day to review and pre-study her English Textbook. She herself is strongly willing to improve her grade in English. We are pretty confident on Nana's potential and trust her desire to be one of the best students. A few examples about Nana's reading and English skills are that she read Harry Potter at age 7 and Gone with the Wind at 10 years old. Her writing skill level was at Grade 10 when she was at 6th grade after being tested by standard exam in St. Louis.(表紅心)

We understand that you will recommend Nana to take a high school
English course in the middle of January. Please consider Nana's
current situation, potential and her learning plan when you do
the recommendation. We really appreciate it very much.(提要求)

Thank you very much for reading my mail and your attention on this matter.Please contact me if you have any concerns and suggestions so that we could improve ourselves and do a better job.(感謝)

Best regards,

Nana's mom
Nana's dad

 

老師的回複：

Dear Mr. and Mrs. G:
Thank you for this information about Nana.  Lately she seems to be much more comfortable in class; I'm sure this has to do with her becoming used to her new school.(鼓勵)

I just checked my grade book and saw that she has an assignment (FRANKENSTEIN vocabulary handout) not turned in because of an absence.  Please urge her to turn that in to me.  The lack of this grade impacted her interim report.(建議)

I will certainly take the information you provided into account when considering Nana's recommendation for high school.(安撫俺焦慮的心)

Sincerely,
JW