Deep Green Bush School is New Zealand’s newest and most unusual school with just eight students. The weather is so beautiful that the school day will start with fishing. After, the kids will eat lunch cooked on an open fire. Homework and classes? Canceled. Students spend most of the day outdoors exploring nature. They also learn about the plants and animals of their home. Students learn to read and write, but they do so at their own pace, when they begin getting interested, not when the teacher decides it is time to learn.
“We are called a school but we look nothing like any school out there,” says Joey Moncarz, who had been a teacher in more common schools for five years before he helped start the school more than a year ago. Being worried that common schools were not preparing children for the problems of the future, he began thinking about a very different kind of education, teaching kids the skills of survival.
Some parents saw their kids were unhappy and stressed in mainstream education and began to question whether it is normal or right for kids to come home stressed and unhappy. People have asked Moncarz to open similar “bush schools” around New Zealand, and as far away as Europe and China.
David Berg is a learning expert. He said schools like Moncarz’s are becoming more popular. However, he says, these schools need to be careful. Children need to learn traditional subjects so they can find jobs in the modern world. Berg said many people still feel it is important to spend more time in nature. People in the modern world need to have many skills and some of those can be developed outside.
Moncarz insists that the school isn’t an experiment( 试 验 ). For two million years, parents have brought up their kids with nature, he said. “We don’t want to be one of a kind, we want to take the place of mainstream schools,” he said. “We are using the same method parents have used to teach their kids for millions of years. Locking kids in a classroom and driving them to learn just causes a lot of problems.”
【小题1】Paragraph 1 is mostly about ________.| A．how many kids learn outside | B．where the school building is |
| C．what the bush school is like | D．why there is no homework |
| A．learning about the nature is less helpful |
| B．normal schools do not teach the right things |
| C．normal schools teach things in the future |
| D．everything should not be taught in schools |
| A．the most acceptable education | B．public education |
| C．the most important education | D．private education |
| A．Parents wish their kids to get education in China. |
| B．David Berg doesn’t totally agree with Moncarz. |
| C．Moncarz hopes bush schools will be main education. |
| D．Moncarz believes the bush school pattern is not new. |
| A．To make more kids choose outdoor schools. |
| B．To describe and explain an outdoor school. |
| C．To tell parents that outdoor schools are bad. |
| D．To see how weather means to bush schools. |
