一半的美國(guó)公立學(xué)校學(xué)生在家上學(xué)

一半的美國(guó)公立學(xué)校學(xué)生在家上學(xué)

As of Thursday afternoon, 26 states, representing about half of the nation's public school students, have recommended or ordered their schools to remain closed for the rest of the academic year, according to a tally by Education Week.

根據(jù)《教育周刊》的統(tǒng)計(jì)，截至周四下午，26個(gè)州(約占美國(guó)公立學(xué)校學(xué)生總數(shù)的一半)已建議或下令其學(xué)校在本學(xué)年剩余時(shí)間關(guān)閉。

The closures affect about 25 million of the nation's 50.8 million public school students. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced he would extend the closure of his state's schools.

關(guān)閉學(xué)校影響了全國(guó)5080萬(wàn)公立學(xué)校學(xué)生中的2500萬(wàn)。路易斯安那州州長(zhǎng)約翰·貝爾·愛(ài)德華茲宣布，他將延長(zhǎng)該州學(xué)校的停課時(shí)間。

When states began closing schools in mid-March, state leaders suggested the closures would be short-lived — perhaps just two to three weeks. But the surge in coronavirus infections has forced states to extend the closure of both schools and businesses.

當(dāng)各州在3月中旬開(kāi)始關(guān)閉學(xué)校時(shí)，各州領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人表示，這些學(xué)校的關(guān)閉將是短暫的，可能只有兩到三周。但是冠狀病毒感染的激增迫使各州延長(zhǎng)了學(xué)校和企業(yè)的關(guān)閉時(shí)間。

Maryland's schools are scheduled to reopen after April 24. but that seems unlikely.

馬里蘭州的學(xué)校計(jì)劃在4月24日后重新開(kāi)學(xué)，但這似乎不太可能。

While nearly all of the nation's K-12 schools are currently closed, a recent review in The Lancet of research on school closures questions the extent of their effectiveness. "Recent modelling studies of COVID-19 predict that school closures alone would prevent only 2-4% of deaths, much less than other social distancing interventions," the authors wrote.

雖然美國(guó)幾乎所有的K-12學(xué)校目前都關(guān)閉了，但《柳葉刀》最近發(fā)表的一篇關(guān)于學(xué)校關(guān)閉研究的綜述對(duì)它們的有效性提出了質(zhì)疑。“最近對(duì)COVID-19的建模研究預(yù)測(cè)，僅僅關(guān)閉學(xué)校就能避免2% -4%的死亡，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)低于其他社會(huì)距離干預(yù)，”作者寫道。

But note the authors' use of the word "alone": In the U.S., school closures have not been implemented on their own and have played a key role in keeping adults at home. Though, in keeping schools closed, state leaders are making it increasingly difficult for the Trump administration to make good on its commitment to reopen the U.S. economy as soon as possible. As long as tens of millions of children are stuck at home, their parents will be too.

但請(qǐng)注意作者使用的“僅僅”一詞：在美國(guó)，學(xué)校關(guān)閉并不是單獨(dú)實(shí)施的，在讓成年人留在家中起到了關(guān)鍵作用。不過(guò)，在關(guān)閉學(xué)校方面，各州領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人正使特朗普政府越來(lái)越難以兌現(xiàn)其盡快重啟美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的承諾。只要上千萬(wàn)的孩子被困在家里，他們的父母也會(huì)被困在家里。

School closures aren't just hard on the economy; they're also hard on kids. The Lancet review cites "loss of education, harms to child welfare particularly among the most vulnerable pupils, and nutritional problems especially to children for whom free school meals are an important source of nutrition."

關(guān)閉學(xué)校不僅對(duì)經(jīng)濟(jì)不利，對(duì)孩子也不利?！读~刀》評(píng)論引述“教育的喪失，對(duì)兒童福利的傷害，特別是對(duì)最脆弱的學(xué)生，以及營(yíng)養(yǎng)問(wèn)題，特別是對(duì)那些免費(fèi)學(xué)校餐是重要營(yíng)養(yǎng)來(lái)源的兒童。”

In the days after schools initially closed, districts raced to build new ways of distributing food to kids, including packaging more than one meal at a time and even distributing food on traditional bus routes. As one big-city school superintendent told NPR, for many kids, school is simply the safest place they can be.

在學(xué)校最初關(guān)閉后的幾天里，各個(gè)學(xué)區(qū)競(jìng)相建立新的分發(fā)食物給孩子們的方式，包括一次打包多份食物，甚至在傳統(tǒng)的公交路線上分發(fā)食物。正如一所大城市的學(xué)校負(fù)責(zé)人告訴美國(guó)國(guó)家公共電臺(tái)，對(duì)許多孩子來(lái)說(shuō)，學(xué)校就是他們能呆的最安全的地方。

With so many schools closed, students have been forced to learn remotely, either online or, for those without access to a device or Wi-Fi, through printed paper packets. But it's becoming increasingly clear that many children are being left behind.

由于許多學(xué)校關(guān)閉，學(xué)生被迫遠(yuǎn)程學(xué)習(xí)，或是在線學(xué)習(xí)，或是通過(guò)打包的紙質(zhì)資料學(xué)習(xí)(對(duì)那些無(wú)法使用設(shè)備或Wi-Fi的學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō))。但越來(lái)越明顯的是，許多孩子沒(méi)有被照顧到。