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16.02.2020 22:18 •  Английский язык

ПЕРЕВЕДИТЕ
Slums – трущобы
Locks – замки
Guards — охранники
Permission — разрешение
Mellish school is in the slums of Brooklyn for pupils between twelve and fifteen
years of age. There are about 1500 pupils there, and 90 teachers.
It’s a problem school, perhaps one of the most difficult schools in America. The
white teachers can’t walk to the school because they may be attacked. They all
drive to school, and their cars have special locks. There’s always a black
policeman at the door of the school. He has a radio contact with the
school guards. Pupils must have a written permission from the teacher if
they want to go to the toilet. There’s a guard outside the washroom. Only one
child can go into the washroom at a time, and he can’t stay there long.
The children who live in that district go to that school. They are all black children.
However, why do the teachers work there?
“It’s very hard of course,” says Jane Flinch, a forty- five-year-old teacher. Most
children have problems at home. Some of them are beaten by their parents. Some
of them sleep at the lessons because they had to work at night. Some of the
children get sick at the lessons because they didn’t have breakfast or even a meal
for a day or two.
It’s the love of the job that keeps the teachers in that school. They teach and do
social work. They feel that they are doing something good for the children who
“There’s also the problem of violence,” says one of the teachers. “Sometimes
when I go into a class, I can feel that some of the children are like a dynamite.
However, I feel quite safe. I am sure that other pupils will help me.” There is very
little money for teaching in that school. There is no money to buy food for the
The principal of the school has been there for many years. A lot of his happy
optimism has gone. “No, I’m not optimistic about the future. Look around you,”
he says and points out of the window at the high wall round the school. ”It’s not a
very bright sight: buildings have holes instead of the windows, shops are closed,
groups of people are sitting on the steps of the houses. They have nowhere to go
and nothing to do.”
“We need money,” he says, “money is the only way to help this school and these
people, and, of course, jobs for the people.”