With just a few minutes left before school was to start, my six-year-old, Dustin, was pouting. “I don’t want to go,” he said. As he entered first grade, he began to hate school. What’s going on?
Every kid occasionally grumbles about school. But five to ten percent of kids dislike it so much that they don’t want to _____1______ it. “If a child seems depressed or _____2______ about school, fakes illness to stay home, repeatedly winds up in the nurse’s or principal’s office, or refuses to talk about large chunks of the school day, you should be concerned,” say school psychologists Michael Martin and Cynthia Waltman-Greenwood. _____3______ , you can usually solve the problem—sometimes very easily. In our case, my husband and I visited Dustin’s class and noticed that the teacher, fresh out of college, _____4______ only on kids who scrambled to sit right under her nose. Dustin, who generally sat near the back, was _____5______. We simply told him to move up front. He did, and his enthusiasm returned.
【題組】5 (A)rewarded (B)appreciated (C)ignored (D)interested