置き去りにされる子供たち〜アメリカの幼児死亡率が異常に高いワケ〜
Children Left Behind
From Season 4 episode 10, "Holy Night"
今週は、10話からアメリカの教育問題、および幼児死亡率に関する話題をお届けしましょう。
まず、バートレット大統領と精神分析医スタンリーのやりとりを見てみましょう。
President:
There's a new international math and science study. We rank 19 out of 21 countries.
Stanley:
That's not very good.
President:
This is what I'm talking about.
Stanley:
Who did worse?
President:
South Africa and Cyprus.
Stanley:
See, that's questionable company 'cause you don't think of Cyprus as a leader in the field.
President:
No, you don't. Nor us anymore, for that matter. One-third of all math teachers and half of science teachers didn't major or minor in that subject.
Stanley:
I did very well in math and science. I don't know why.
President:
And we'll want to get to the bottom of that. But we're increasing education spending to over a $100 billion a year and, as a result, we have seventh grade textbooks being used in ninth grade and the same answers get a higher score on S.A.T.s.
この一連のやりとりは、ブッシュ政権下で2002年1月に立法化された「No Child Left Behind(いかなる子供も取り残されない)」という教育法を皮肉ったものなんですよね。
No Child Left Behind(NCLB)は法案だった時点では、「できの悪い公立学校に連邦政府が援助金を与え、教師の質を上げ、生徒を定期的にテストして学力を向上させる」という点のみがクローズアップされていたため、なんと民主党の大御所テッド・ケネディ上院議員までもがブッシュ政権のこの法案を積極的に応援していたのです!
So our schools have reached a crisis and our infant mortality rate is two and a half times what it is in Singapore. So what I think we should do for starters is, we should keep more people alive, then send them to school.
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