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  1. May 2025
    1. ow long do you wait for students to answer a question?" When we ask teachers to describe what they do hundreds of times daily in the classroom, their answers are all over the map: One minute. Ten seconds. Five seconds. Twenty-five seconds. Three seconds. How long do you think teachers wait for a student to answer?

      I think this is a real situation encountered by the students. The teacher didn't give the students enough patience to think, but showed his own impatience and pressure. In such a short period of time, teachers suppress students' thinking time and deepen their anxiety. This is very likely to hit those students who are already introverted or not good at expressing themselves in language.

    2. by the upper elementary grades, appearance had become the key to social status.

      I think this indicates that a girl's popularity and status among children depend more on her appearance rather than her ability or personality. This premature emphasis on appearance also reflects the overall values of society. When I was young, I really had a deep understanding, the beautiful girls were even known by all kids‘ parents.

    3. Maybe you were new to the country and to the language, embar-rassed to show that you did not always understand what was being said, or how best to formulate your sentences

      I think this sentence has touched me deeply. When I came to the United States as an outsider, I felt the shock from language, identity and culture. This made me no longer willing to show my thoughts, because it was obviously different from what was happening around me. In an unfamiliar environment, I became closed off, or rather, I was only willing to interact with similar students.

    4. No need to cre-ate embarrassing situations or survival challenges, just set up a time-lapse video camera to record every few minutes or so and watch the strange world of classroom life unfold.

      I think although this sentence is put forward in a humorous and joking way, it also indicates that everyone recognizes the drama and complexity in primary school life. The social interaction and behavior of primary school students are often more flamboyant and dramatic than those of adults. I think behind this is that even when children are at a very young age, they have already begun to learn and adapt to social rules, especially the compromise and learning for a smaller gender.

    1. Thus, the objectifi cation of female bodies and the implementation of school dress codes are not neutral

      This has given me some new ideas about the objectization of students in schools. Behind such requirements and policies lies actually the division and control of gender and race, which intensifies the control of gender and leads to a vicious circle. This reminds me of school uniforms. In China, all students are required to wear uniform clothing. I think this has some special differences from the dresscode. What China demands is collectivism that is for all genders, but the dress code for girl is a kind of materialization of women themselves.

    2. Emerging in the context of “tough on crime” policies and fueled by a culture of fear and the demonizing of youth of color, schools are increasingly using prisonlike tactics, including zero tolerance policies where students caught violating school rules face stricter penalties, including suspensions, expulsions, and maybe even police interventions

      I think this sentence directly exposes the predicament faced by teenagers of color. This political strategy is something that ordinary teenagers cannot stop. It also tacitly allows schools to adopt punitive management methods, which further harms the psychology of teenagers. In high school, the school's targeting of special groups can easily rise to the student level. This reflects how this policy of racial attention permeates education and eventually evolves into social inequality.

    1. Two-thirds of the students in the school where Fine observed never made it to graduation. Quiet students like Patricia just slipped through the cracks and disappeared.

      I think this sentence sounds rather plain, as if it were briefly touched upon, but I believe this plainness gives me a more sorrowful feeling. Such quiet students are thus quietly forgotten and ignored, and their kindness and modesty in their hearts instead make them forgotten. I think this is a failure of the education system in identifying weaknesses. Educators should take the initiative to care for those students who do not actively seek attention.

    2. Traditionally, weight loss has been per-ceived in Fijian culture as a sign of illness and deteriorating health. Yet researchers found that three years after television was introduced on the island, teenage girls started to show symptoms of eating disorders for the first time, with 74 percent of girls describing how they feel "too big or fat."24

      I think this situation indicates that the media has created body anxiety among teenagers, which is very similar to the situation of some teenagers in China. They attribute their imperfection or even unsociability to body imperfections, which is exactly what the media has promoted and created. This kind of publicity has rapidly changed society's perception, made teenagers lack confidence in themselves, and at the same time affected their healthy development. I think this can really illustrate the potential harm of the media to teenagers.

    3. High school can be a pressure cooker where teenagers are shoved into close quarters with twenty-five or thirty others of their age whom they may love, hate, care little about, or hardly know.

      I think this sentence really touched upon my memories of high school. When I was in high school, I was exposed to the practice of having classes in different classes, which made me feel the pressure of interacting with peers even more. Everyone had their own small groups, and even when I graduated, there was no contact information for some of them. I think this is the situation that many students face in high school. They encounter the pressure generated when having close contact with a large group of peers, and this pressure needs a gap to be released.

  2. Apr 2025
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    1. elp them flouri~h, and pass them on to the next generation.

      I think this refers the importance role of education, it is important to build generation progress, from both academic achievements and continuing the American dream itself. in this way, the culture can pass the American dream further

    2. while generating shared values and behaviors needed to persuade Americans that they have a real chance to achieve them.

      I think the author trying to explain that American dream isn't just an individual pursuit, but a kind of culture. In this way, it reinforce the idea that success through working is possible.

    3. It

      I think this part actually creates a sense that the success is contribute by personal effort and ambition. This reflects the importance of personal effort and ambition, or everyone can be success if they work enough. However, I think it might overlook the effort of some special group, that they don't have equal resources, they may limit by it to achieve from success.

    4. It encourages each person who lives in the United States to pursue success

      I think the American dream can be different aspects, this sentence focus on the individual aspect, just like the American style movie, it discuss about the personal responsibility and opportunity.