Question

閱讀下面一則新聞，然后按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語短文。

    The headmaster of a middle school in southern England, David Hayes, has suspended （停課） students at his school 478 times over the past year – one in twenty of all the student suspensions in England.

    Although some people believe that his actions go too far, he seems to be getting results. The number of students receiving “A” grades in the national senior school exam has increased from 48% in 2004 to 74% this year.

    Mr. Hayes says that many schools could achieve similar improvements if they improve their school students’ behaviour. He also says the British government is wrong for pressuring schools not to suspend troublesome students and points out the harmful effects such students have on the quality of teaching and student learning. Suspensions often get many naughty students to improve their behaviour, he says.

The school was below average in 2003. Mr. Hayes joined the following year and now suspends two of the school’s 1880 students on average each school day. The total of 478 suspensions over the year means that almost one in four students have been punished this way. This year the school’s academic performance was judged as excellent.

[寫作內容]

你在某英文報刊看到這則新聞后，準備就學生違紀的處理方式寫一篇簡評給該報編輯部，題目是“Should Schools Suspend Troublesome Students?”。內容要點包括：

1．以約30詞簡要概括新聞內容；

2．然后以120詞談談你的觀點，內容包括：

   （1）你是否支持該校長的做法，并陳述理由；

   （2）假設你是學校校長，談談你將如何處理違紀學生，并陳述理由。

[寫作要求]

    1．可以使用實例或其他論述方法支持你的論點，也可以參照閱讀材料的內容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．作文中不能出現真實姓名和學校名稱；

3．文章開頭已給出，不計入單詞總數。

Answer 1

（1）

Should Schools Suspend Troublesome Students?

I recently read a news story about a school in England whose headmaster often suspends misbehaving students. The headmaster believes that strong discipline improves both students’ behavior and academic performance. His school’s exam results have greatly improved during his time in charge.

I believe the headmaster is correct to take this action. If a few students are always behaving poorly in class then it will negatively affect other students’ learning. As a result, many innocent students will suffer and they will fail to achieve their full potential. If the naughty students are removed from the class then the others can learn in peace. Hopefully the misbehaving students will learn their lessons and when they return their behavior will be better.

If I was in charge of a school I would also be very strict with students who don’t behave well. I would first warn and then suspend students who interrupt the learning of others or disrespect their teachers. But I would also visit the poor student’s home and discuss the problem with his parents so we could find a solution.

（2）

Should Schools Suspend Troublesome Students?

I recently read a news story about a school in England whose headmaster often suspends misbehaving students. The headmaster believes that strong discipline improves both students’ behaviors and academic performance. His school’s exam results have greatly improved during his time in charge.

While I congratulate the headmaster on his success I do not agree with the methods he uses to achieve it. Suspending students should be the final type of punishment used for misbehaving students, not the first. Quickly removing such students from the school may be of some benefit to the remaining students but it doesn’t solve the problem of poor behavior. It only shifts the problem from the school to the community. If these naughty students are not in school then they will only be making trouble out of school. Moreover, as the parents of many of these students are working, the students are unsupervised and thus are in danger of falling in with local criminals who will only encourage such bad behavior and even teach them worse things.

If I was in charge of his school I would place the naughty students in a class of their own. This way the other students could study in peace but the naughty students could remain under the supervision of the school and its teachers. The teachers in the naughty class would also have more time to focus on correcting the actions of these misbehaving students.