“It hurts me more than you”, and “This is for your own good” These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education when we decided it was all right not to push our children to do their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They thought that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left them to the teachers and went on holidays.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students-so passive-and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “"We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ve never been hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying “go look it up”, you tell them the answer. It takes great energy to say no to kids.”
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their holidays and come back to work. It’s time to take the car away, to turn TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it’s for their own good. It’s s time to start telling them no again.
1.We learn from the passage that the author’s mother used to pay much attention to .
A.learning Latin B.teaching her child by punishment
C.avoiding spoiling her child D.school education
2.By “permissive period in education” the author means a time .
A.when children are allowed to do what they wish to
B.when calculators are left to the teachers
C.when it is easy for us to be parents
D.when it is hard for children to do their best in school.
3.Children are now becoming more inactive in study because .
A.they watch too much TV B.they have done too much homework
C.they’ve to do too many duties D.teachers are too strict with them
4.To such children as told in the passage .
A.it is easier to say no than to say yes
B.neither to say yes or to say no is easy
C.it is easier to say yes than to say no
D.neither to say yes or to say no is difficult
5.What is the author’s attitude towards the let-alone policy?
A.The author is for is
B.We don’t know yet from the present passage
C.The author is against it
D.The author is neither against or for it