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However important we may regard school life to be, there is no denying the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the great influence of parents cannot be ignored or discounted by the teacher. They can become strong allies of the school personnel or they can consciously or unconsciously hinder and frustrate curricular objectives.
Administrators have been aware of the need to keep parents informed of the newer methods used in schools. Many principals have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness program, manuscript writing and developmental mathematics.
Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors, can also play an important role in enlightening parents. The informal tea and the many interviews carried on during the year, as well as new ways of reporting pupils’ progress, can significantly aid in achieving a harmonious interplay between school an
A. is satisfied with present relationships between home and school.
B. feels that the traditional program in mathematics is slightly superior .to the .developmental program.
C. believes that schools are woefully lacking in guidance personnel.
D. feels that parent-teacher interviews can be made much more constructive than they are at present.
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Millions of families sat down in their living rooms one evening last August to watch a live Madonna Concert from France, telecast on the cable network Home Box Office. Because Madonna. is such a huge international star--and because the telecast was heavily promoted and aired in prime time on a weekend--millions of children certainly watched with their parents.
What happened on all those screens was that Madonna repeatedly used the one obscene word that has been routinely barred from the public airwaves.
We live in an anything - goes age, so the show’ s witless and purposely vulgar content was not surprising. The language itself was nothing that has not been heard in movies or on cable - TV comedy specials. The surprising thing was that so few parents called HBO to object. A spokesperson for the network said the complaints" were not by any stretch of the imagination overwhelming"--and that the Madonna con cert was the highest -
A. It is an anything - goes age
B. Is Madonna a huge international star
C. The children are watching
D. Programes on the cable network are out - dated
Text 4 The scourge that’s plaguing cruise lines--and causing thousands of tourists to rethink their holiday travel plans--didn’t start this year, nor did it even start on a ship. It began, as far as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) can tell, in Norwalk, U. S., in October 1968, when 116 elementary school children and teachers suddenly became iii. The CDC investigated, and the cause was discovered to be a small, spherical, previously unclassified virus that scientists named, appropriately enough, the Norwalk virus. Flash forward 34 years, and Norwalk-like viruses ( there’s a whole family of them) are all over the news as one ocean liner after another limps into port with passengers complaining of nausea and vomiting. The CDC, which gets called in whenever more than 2% of a vessel’s passengers come down with the same disease, identified Norwalk as the infectious agent and oversaw thorough ship cleaning--which, to the dismay of the owners of the cr
A. students are easily attacked by the Norwalk-like virus.
B. Norwalk-like viruses tend to break out in closed crowded place.
C. Norwalk-like viruses might cause flu.
D. Norwalk-like viruses are not widespread.
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