Students are now sent to boarding schools and even other countries (away from home, to study and live on their own). This has become more and more common in many countries. What are the reasons for this? Is it a positive development?

大意:

学生现在被送到了寄宿学校, 甚至是国外(远离家人, 独力学习和生活). 在很多国家, 这已经变得很普遍. 原因是什么? 是否这代表着一个积极的变化?

浅析:

今年上半年教育类题目明显过少, 大家要注意教育类题目在下半年的大量出现.

此题是书上TOPIC 104的改写. 与原题相比, 本题多了留学的内容, 不过切忌不要过多讨论留学这一话题.

Those who study at a boarding school or go overseas for educational purposes have appeared to account for a growing proportion of students in many countries.  There are a number of motivators behind parents’ decisions to send students to boarding schools or foreign countries.  These motivators might be reasonable, but this trend should not be welcomed.

Today, parents are interested in putting their children in an institution remote from the neighbourhood, so as to protect their children from the risk of drug use, joining gangs and teen sex. Under the supervision of staff in school, children are required and expected to discipline themselves and concentrate on their schoolwork.  In addition, parents are motivated by the idea that their children might improve their abilities to cope with daily problems independently in a boarding school, where they cannot turn to parents for help, even in handling seemingly trivial tasks, such as laundry. Such challenges prepare them well for adulthood, in which they are overwhelmed with various problems.

Parents’ initiatives should be appreciated, but it turns out that boarding schools do not offer an answer to their worries. Children might not have those behaviour problems commonly found among those from day schools, but the cost of this benefit is children’s zero social life. Many students, especially those in early teens, suffer homesickness and depression because of their protracted family detachment. These problems can be even more devastating among those who have to stay overseas all year long. The mundane campus life might nurture the misconception of what the real world is like among students. They might graduate from schools with confusion when they experience problems in making an adjustment from school to society.

Even a shallow review of the problems associated with boarding schools or overseas study can propel us to reassess these two brand-new preferences. Although the boarding school acts as a vacuum and cuts students’ potential exposure to social evils, it might meanwhile compromise students’ social skills and make them feeble in adults’ world.

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