1 . Ways to Be Safe in School
School safety problems involve more than violence. It may also include such concern as natural disasters, illness, fire and local emergencies (紧急情况).
Have a plan
Teachers and students should know where to go and what to do in case of a school safety problem.
Screen visitors
Panic buttons
Provide teachers with panic buttons in classrooms so they can ask for help immediately. Provide clear and brief instructions about use and immediate response when started.
Establish a hotline
Establish a hotline so students can report crimes and dangers. Post the number in obvious locations so students can often see it.
A.Visitors are not allowed to enter schools. |
B.So what can we do to make the school a safer place? |
C.Students may report crimes and dangers more quickly. |
D.Just as schools practice fire drills, they can conduct safety drills. |
E.Teachers and students should be sure that immediate help will arrive. |
F.It is said that about hundreds of students die in school accidents every year. |
G.Require that all visitors enter the safety office and explain why they are there. |
Research showed 60% of middle school students in America
It also showed that over 50% of bullying decreased if the school had
Another way is to talk to the bully. Tell them how much it hurts when they call you names or
Bullying is never, nor will it ever be an acceptable matter. Together we can stand up to bullying and make it disappear.
According to a recent survey, violence did exist in schools. Students showed their fear and parents and teachers also
Nowadays, school violence is
If I meet with school violence, I will not answer violence
All in all, every student should behave
4 . Rosie Dutton, a teacher from Relax Kids in Tamworth, UK, used two apples to show her students the damaging, and often unseen,consequences of bullying(霸凌). And her post about the powerful lesson has gone viral.
Rosie Dutton explained that during one of her classes she introduced the children to two red apples. What the kids didn't know was that before the lesson, Dutton had repeatedly dropped one of the apples on the floor. And yet, on the outside at least both apples looked perfect. "I picked up the apple I'd dropped on the floor and started to tell the children how I disliked this apple, that I thought it was disgusting, it had a horrible colour and the stem was just too short," Dutton wrote.
She then encouraged the students to do the same. Some of the children looked at her as if she was "crazy", but the students passed the apple around the circle, calling it names. Continuing the exercise, the teacher then passed the second apple around the circle. This apple, however, was showered with comments like: "Your skin is beautiful", and "What a beautiful colour you have."
Dutton then showed the students both apples once again, highlighting that "there was no change; both apples still looked the same . "
That is, until she cut them open. "The apple we'd said unkind words to was bruised and all mushy inside," she said.
There was, she said, an immediate "light bulb" moment for her students. "They really got it. What we saw inside that apple, the bruises, the mush and the broken bits is happening inside every one of us when someone mistreats us with their words or actions."
Dutton explained how important it is to teach children to stand up for one another, and to stop any form of bullying. "Let's create a generation of kind caring children," the teacher wrote." The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart. So be careful with your words."
1. What had the teacher done to the first apple before the lesson?A.She had introduced it to the kids. |
B.She had damaged it purposely. |
C.She had made it look perfect. |
D.She had coloured it brightly. |
A.Saying rude things. |
B.Making fun of it. |
C.Cheering for it. |
D.Shouting at it. |
A.To draw the kids' attention. |
B.To explain her personal preference. |
C.To make a comparison between them. |
D.To help the kids understand the results of bullying. |
5 . The effect of bullying (欺凌) can be serious and even lead to tragedy. Unfortunately, it is still a mostly researched area.
Since bullying is often ignored, it may provide an important clue in crowd behavior and passer-by behavior.
A.Research indicates that the victim often becomes the bully. |
B.Psychologists have been puzzled by the inactivity of crowds and bystanders when crimes occur in crowded places. |
C.More attention should be paid to people's reaction to bullying when it happens. |
D.Hitler, for example, is claimed to have been a victim of bullying in his childhood. |
E.Campus bullying is becoming a serious problem in some high schools in big cities. |
F.The friends and classmates of the bully and the victim also accept the violence as normal. |
G.The link between bullying and school violence has attracted increasing attention since 1999. |
6 . Bully for you
The makers of a hotly debated computer game about bullying have decided to go ahead and put it into market despite calls for it
Critics have said that the game encourages
A British politician, a former minister, has called for it to be banned as it might have
Anti-bullying
Judy Kuczynski is president of an anti-bullying group called Bully Police USA. Her daughter Tina was the victim of severe bullying starting in middle school in the state of Minnesota. Her said, "Our daughter was a very outgoing child. She was a bubbly personality, very involved in all kinds of things, had lots of friends. And over a period of time her grades fell completely. She started having health issues. She couldn't sleep. She wasn't eating. She had terrible stomach pains. She started clenching her jaw and grinding her teeth at night. Didn't want to go to school."
Bullying is defined as negative behavior repeated over time against the same person. It can involve physical violence. Or it can be verbal — for example, insults or threats. Spreading lies about someone or excluding a person from a group is known as social or relational bullying.
And now there is cyber bullying, which uses the Internet, e-mail or text messages. It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time.
The first serious research studies into bullying were done in Norway in the late 1970s. The latest government study in the United States was released last year. It found that about one-third of students age twelve to eighteen were bullied at school.
Susan Sweater is a psychologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-director of the Bullying Research Network. She says schools should treat bullying as a mental health problem to get bullies and victims the help they need. She says bullying is connected to depression, anxiety and anti-social behavior, and bullies are often victims themselves.
1. From the case of Tina, we can know that .
A.bullying is rare | B.victims suffered a lot |
C.schools are to blame | D.personalities are related |
A.To beat someone repeatedly. | B.To call someone names. |
C.To isolate someone from friends. | D.To refuse to help someone in need. |
A.Because it can involve more people. | B.Because it can create worse effects. |
C.Because it is more convenient. | D.Because it can avoid cheating. |
A.bullies are anti-social | B.bullies should give victims help |
C.students are not requally treated | D.bullies themselves also need help |
A.Bullying—Old Irish Girl Committed Suicide |
B.15-Year-Old Irish Girl Committed Suicide |
C.Cyberbullying-Taking Off in Schools |
D.How to Find Bullying among Teens |
The main reason for violence acts are the films and cartoons that fill the children’s time. They want to do everything they watch on TV and never think of the consequences, and they may hurt a classmate or a teacher.
On the other hand, parents are not fully satisfied with the children’s results obtained in classes and they consider private classes would have better results.
When a teacher has to watch 30 students in class he can’t probably see what each of them is doing, how he is writing, or if he understands the explanations. At home the teacher can explain in details everything the child doesn’t understand as many times as he considers proper.
And many times the child grows fond of the teacher at home, who becomes his best friend, and who helps him whenever he needs someone to talk to.
However, the best solution would be a mixture between the education received at school and that at home, because school makes children communicate and socialize. Keeping a child at home for fear there might happen something bad to him only makes the child’s character weak and prevents him from knowing what real life is. Staying in a crystal ball only does harm to the child.
All in all, schools have been created to help children, not to harm them, so it’s best to keep children in these special places, where they learn, laugh, have fun and make new friends.
1. The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to ________.
A.teach parents the ways to keep their children safe |
B.show solutions to developing children’s character |
C.explain the main reason for violence acts in schools |
D.analyze an education problem and give opinions |
A.Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Classes |
B.Who is to Blame, Parents or Schools? |
C.Which Is Better, School Study or Home Study? |
D.The Relationship between Teachers and Children |
A.A toy that can be used for entertainment. |
B.A safe and comfortable environment. |
C.A round object that is made of crystal. |
D.An obstacle that is hard to overcome. |
A.violence TV programs have bad effects on children’s behavior |
B.the teacher at home is more patient than the teacher at school |
C.children today are weak from lack of sense of right and wrong |
D.there are too many students in class for a teacher to teach |
“The safety issue is a big one,” says Joe Mahoney, who quickly discovered he wasn’t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the same question was always asked: what about crime? But when college officials always gave the same answer -----“That’s not a problem here,”-----Mahoney began to feel uneasy.
“No crime whatever?” comments Mahoney today. “I just don’t buy it.” Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S. Department of education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses. “Parents need to understand that times have changed since they went to college,” says David Nichols, author of Creating a Safe Campus. “Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation.”
But getting accurate information isn’t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics(统计数字) by law, but some hold back for fear of bad publicity(关注), leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. “The truth may not always be serious,” warns S. Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation’s leading campus safety watchdog group.
To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the country to find out major crime issues and effective solutions.
1. It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges ____.
A.receive too many visitors | B.mirror the rest of the nation |
C.hide the truth of campus crime | D.have too many watchdog groups |
A.mind | B.admit | C.believe | D.expect |
A.that are protected by campus security | B.that report campus crimes by law |
C.that are free from campus crime | D.that enjoy very good publicity |
A.Exact campus crime statistics. | B.Crimes on or around campuses. |
C.Effective solutions to campus crime. | D.Concerns about kids’ campus safety. |