摘要：今天要跟大家分享的雅思閱讀素材是關(guān)于一個(gè)很嚴(yán)肅的話題：死亡“Why and how should death be discussed in school? 在學(xué)校里，我們?yōu)槭裁匆懻撍劳觯⑶以鯓尤ビ懻摚俊笨纯幢疚牡挠^點(diǎn)吧！

雅思中國網(wǎng)雅思君今天要和大家分享的雅思閱讀材料叫做“Why and how should death be discussed in school在學(xué)校里，我們?yōu)槭裁匆懻撍劳觯⑶覒?yīng)該怎樣去討論？”這個(gè)問題很嚴(yán)肅，但其實(shí)這是每個(gè)人生來不得不面對(duì)的問題，一起看看這么嚴(yán)肅的話題別人怎么看待的吧！

How do you explain to hundreds of grade school children that a beloved kindergarten teacher with breast cancer is dying? A friend recently asked me for advice as this was happening at her child’s school. Both she and the school leadership felt lost. While the situation was tragic, I was glad they wanted to have the conversation. I was glad they were reaching out for help.

My friend’s request reminded me of when one of my son’s kindergarten classmates died of brain cancer. At the time, I asked my son if the teachers talked about his classmate’s death. He told me that the kids started to talk about it, but the teacher discouraged their conversation. I felt disappointment and concern. I thought teachers would appreciate the importance of allowing children to ask questions and express their feelings. While I talked with my son about his classmate, not all children have someone at home to whom they can turn.

As a physician who cares for families of dying children regularly, I am used to having these conversations, but I know most people are not. They may not know how to go about(對(duì)付，處理)it or know what is appropriate to say, especially with children. Bereavement(喪失親人) expert, Kristin James, confirmed this. She provides guidance to hundreds of families in Illinois when their children die, and she said schools often ask her for help when either a classmate or adult in their community has died.

These conversations are important. But like life, death is ubiquitous(無處不在的). It’s on the local news and in any action movie a child is likely to see. Even Chris and Martin Kratt, lovable brothers from a popular PBS show who teach children about animals and nature, can’t escape the fact that one animal must die so that another can survive.

Further, most kids will endure the death of a family member or friend before their eighteenth birthday. Research in 2012 by the New York Life Foundation and the American Federation of Teachers found that 7 out of 10 teachers have a student in their classroom who is grieving(傷心，痛苦). With more than 25 shootings in K-12 schools so far this year, too many students have an up-close look at death in the classroom.

Aside from school shootings, some may wonder why schools should have any responsibility for helping children cope with death and dying. Surely the place for such conversations is at home, with the content and focus left to the discretion(判斷;慎重)of parents or guardians. Parents should be the ones to impart(傳授)their own values and cultural views about death on their children, such as if there is an afterlife or not. (除了校園槍擊，有些人也許不明白，為什么學(xué)校有責(zé)任幫助孩子們應(yīng)對(duì)死亡和臨死這樣的事情。在他們看來，這種對(duì)話當(dāng)然應(yīng)該在家里發(fā)生，該談什么，重點(diǎn)談什么，都應(yīng)該讓父母或監(jiān)護(hù)人來確定，父母應(yīng)該向孩子傳達(dá)他們關(guān)于死亡的價(jià)值觀和文化態(tài)度，比如是否有來生，等。)

I agree that parents and guardians should take the lead and talk to their children about death. But the reality is, children may still turn to trusted teachers, and the consequences of avoiding these conversations are significant. (但現(xiàn)實(shí)是，孩子們還是可能會(huì)向他們信任的老師求助，避免這些談話的后果是很嚴(yán)重的。)Children affected by death can experience anxiety, depression, regression(倒退), nightmares, bed-wetting, and poor school performance.

               
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