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Prologue: Prologue Ira Glass Remember years ago, the guy who ran the military, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, said, kind of famously, there are the things we know, the things we don't know, and there are the things that we don't even know we don't know.

序言：序言 艾拉·格拉斯 还记得多年前，掌管军队的国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德曾说过一句名言：有些事情我们知道，有些事情我们不知道，有些事情我们甚至不知道自己不知道。

That last kind of spooky category he called the unknown unknowns.

他将最后一种令人毛骨悚然的类别称为未知的未知数。

And I guess maybe talking about known unknowns and unknown unknowns might have been appropriate for the thing he was talking about, which was Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

我想也许谈论已知的未知数和未知的未知数可能适合他所谈论的事情，即伊拉克和大规模杀伤性武器。

But who knew that someday it was going to be a good way to describe the chaos swirling this year around two of which should be the most pedestrian, predictable things the government does-- counting votes in an election and starting the school year.

但谁知道有一天，这将成为描述今年围绕两件事所发生的混乱的好方法，其中两件事应该是政府所做的最平淡、最可预测的事情——选举中的计票和开始学年。

OK, let's save the election for another day.

好吧，我们把选举留到另一天再说吧。

Can we talk right now about the demolition derby multi-car pileup of known unknowns and unknown unknowns that is the opening of this school year?

我们现在可以谈谈本学年开始时已知的未知数和未知的未知数的拆除德比多车连环相撞吗？

Matt teaches at a big high school in the suburbs of South Carolina.

马特在南卡罗来纳州郊区的一所大型高中任教。

And all summer he's been doing what parents and teachers everywhere have been doing this year, wondering if there's going to be in-person instruction this fall and watching state and local officials give out information that seemed incomplete, and contradictory, and confusing.

整个夏天，他都在做今年各地家长和老师所做的事情，想知道今年秋天是否会有面对面的指导，并观察州和地方官员给出的信息似乎不完整、矛盾和令人困惑。

And it was sort of like hot potato of responsibility too.

这也有点像责任的烫手山芋。

It was like everybody was kind of passing, you know, like, when you hear from your district, when you hear from the state superintendent, when we hear from our gov-- you know.

就好像每个人都有点路过，你知道，就像，当你听到你所在地区的消息时，当你听到州州长的消息时，当我们听到我们政府的消息时——你知道。

Oh, they're all saying somebody else is going to set the course, and then you'll know.

哦，他们都说其他人会设定路线，然后你就会知道。

By August, when they got to the first day, the teachers reported back to school-- no kids there yet, just teachers.

到了八月，当他们到达第一天时，老师们向学校报告——那里还没有孩子，只有老师。

Matt says things still seemed very unclear.

马特说事情似乎仍然很不清楚。

Thinking surely when we get in the building, we're going to get the answers.

确信当我们进入大楼时，我们就会得到答案。

The answer is in the building where my bosses are, they're going to know.

答案就在我老板所在的大楼里，他们会知道的。

And over the course of the week, sort of having the veil lifted and realizing my bosses don't know anything more than I do about the start of school-- like, my principal and I know the exact same amount of information.

在这一周的时间里，我有点揭开了面纱，意识到我的老板们对开学的了解并不比我多——就像，我的校长和我知道的信息量完全相同。

At that point, teachers had received an email with a tentative plan, but the emphasis was very much on "tentative." His principal noted, quote, "Things change daily." The plan was called the A/B plan, and it was the hybrid plan that lots of schools are doing.

那时，老师们收到了一封包含暂定计划的电子邮件，但重点是“暂定”。他的校长指出，“事情每天都在变化。”该计划被称为 A/B 计划，是许多学校正在实施的混合计划。

Students will be divided into two groups, A and B.

学生将被分为两组，A 组和 B 组。

Half would come to school for two days while the other half would stay home and join online using Zoom, then they'd switch.

一半人会来学校学习两天，而另一半人会呆在家里并使用 Zoom 在线加入，然后他们会切换。

But if you want to see a high school spinning through the maelstrom of known unknowns and unknown unknowns, OK, here is what happened that first day the teachers came back.

但如果你想看到一所高中在已知的未知和未知的未知的漩涡中旋转，好吧，这就是老师回来第一天发生的事情。

The first meeting that I go to is at 10:00.

我参加的第一次会议是在 10:00。

And it's a department meeting, so we have just 15 people spread out.

这是一次部门会议，所以我们只有 15 个人。

And you all are sitting there socially distanced from each other, wearing masks.

你们都戴着口罩坐在那里，彼此保持社交距离。

Yep.

是的。

There's a good atmosphere in the room.

房间里气氛很好。

All things considered, we're happy to be there and happy to see each other-- a very glass half full, whatever may come sort of vibe in the room.

考虑到所有因素，我们很高兴能在那里，也很高兴见到彼此——一杯半满的酒，无论房间里的气氛如何。

And our department head, who's a teacher, has written up these two plans on the board-- the A day, B day sort of hybrid plan and then an all-virtual start.

我们的部门负责人是一名教师，他在黑板上写下了这两个计划——A 天、B 天的混合计划，然后是全虚拟的开始。

Virtual start-- no students in the building, you're teaching everybody online.

虚拟开始——大楼里没有学生，你在网上教每个人。

Yeah.

是的。

We get a little into this meeting, and we have an administrator-- one of our assistant principals is in the room, and he's been mostly quiet.

我们对这次会议进行了一些讨论，我们有一位管理员——我们的一位助理校长也在房间里，他基本上很安静。

But when we get to a conversation about how we get back into teaching, he sort of pipes in, and he says, hang on.

但当我们讨论如何重新投入教学时，他插话了，他说，坚持住。

And he's like, the A day, B day plan is out.

他说，A Day B Day 的计划已经结束了。

Apparently they had received word from the district that our school needed to cancel that plan.

显然他们已经收到学区的消息称我们学校需要取消该计划。

So, all right, everybody, first change, curve ball coming at 11:00 AM.

那么，好吧，大家，第一个改变，曲线球将于上午 11:00 到来。

Change of plans-- let's plan on all virtual.

计划改变——让我们计划所有虚拟的。

So to summarize, 10 o'clock it's A/B.

总而言之，10 点是 A/B。

11 o'clock it's all virtual.

11点，一切都是虚拟的。

Or anyway, that's how Matt took it.

或者无论如何，马特就是这么认为的。

His department chair told us he had no idea what would happen.

他的系主任告诉我们他不知道会发生什么。

So meeting ends.

会议就这样结束了。

Then around 2:00 in the afternoon, word sort of spreads that there's this bomb drop of an announcement.

然后下午 2:00 左右，消息传开，说有一个炸弹投下的公告。

And that administrator who had been in our meeting caught my colleague in the hall, and he was kind of flustered.

参加我们会议的那位管理员在大厅里发现了我的同事，他有点慌张。

And he said, plans are changing again.

他说，计划再次发生变化。

We just got word from the district.

我们刚刚收到该地区的消息。

So it's just like, wait for the staff meeting.

所以就像，等待员工会议。

Let's see what happens.

让我们看看会发生什么。

The staff meeting is the big welcome to the new school year all staff meeting for the whole faculty.

此次教职工大会是全体教职工对新学年的盛大欢迎。

And it starts at 3 o'clock.

而且是3点开始的。

About 250 teachers are on this Zoom call.

大约 250 名教师参加了这次 Zoom 电话会议。

We're all in our own rooms.

我们都在自己的房间里。

You're all in the building, but you're in your own rooms--

你们都在大楼里，但你们在自己的房间里——

Yeah.

是的。

And then like nothing happens at this meeting.

然后这次会议就像什么都没发生一样。

The whole meeting is trivial information.

整个会议都是琐碎的信息。

They introduce new faculty members.

他们介绍了新的教员。

They share positive news from teachers' summers, like new babies or engagements.

他们分享老师暑期的积极消息，比如新生儿或订婚。

They talk about our SAT scores from last year, all the things that we hear annually.

他们谈论我们去年的 SAT 成绩，以及我们每年听到的所有事情。

When they finally do talk about the restart plan, he says it's a lot of we can do it positivity, but no concrete details about whether they'd be going all virtual or what the plan was going to be.

当他们最终谈论重启计划时，他说我们可以积极地做很多事情，但没有具体细节说明他们是否会全部虚拟化或计划是什么。

So the meeting ends, and we're all sort of sitting there thinking like, what was it?

会议结束了，我们都坐在那里思考，这是什么？

And my colleague and I are determined to figure this out.

我和我的同事决心解决这个问题。

So it's 4:00 now.

现在是 4:00。

We're like, we're going to go down to the administrators' offices and just see what we can see.

我们就像，我们要去管理员办公室，看看我们能看到什么。

And we go to one of the administrator's offices, and there are two other assistant principals in there.

我们去了其中一间行政办公室，那里还有另外两名助理校长。

It's pretty jammed.

实在是太堵了。

And it's sort of like the situation room in any White House action drama.

这有点像任何白宫动作片中的情景室。

There's papers all over the table, and everybody's on their computer.

桌子上到处都是文件，每个人都在电脑上。

And even for as few people are in the room, they're sort of talking past each other, and there are multiple conversations going on.

即使房间里的人很少，他们也会互相交谈，并且正在进行多次对话。

And my friend and I kind of got that vibe of like, we're just going to stand at the door.

我和我的朋友有一种感觉，我们就站在门口。

We're not even going to come in, wade into the water.

我们甚至不打算进来，涉水。

But what we find out is that in the afternoon, the district apparently came back to the schools and was like, OK, new plan.

但我们发现，下午，学区显然回到了学校，并提出了新计划。

You need students in the building on the first day of school, five days a week, at 25% capacity.

您需要学生在开学第一天在大楼里，每周五天，容量为 25%。

That's all we're giving you.

这就是我们给你的全部。

Figure it out.

弄清楚吧。

What?

什么？

Matt And so what we see on the table are all these rosters of students and scheduling.

马特 所以我们在桌子上看到的是所有这些学生名册和日程安排。

And so there's some logistical nightmare.

因此，后勤方面存在一些噩梦。

The logistical nightmare is because South Carolina mandates that every parent should have the option to send their kid to school for in-person instruction if they want or keep them at home for virtual learning if that's what they want, which is the kind of trying to please everybody solution that in practice is just enormously difficult to execute.

后勤噩梦是因为南卡罗来纳州规定，每个家长都可以选​​择将孩子送到学校接受面对面的指导（如果他们愿意的话），或者让他们留在家里进行虚拟学习（如果他们愿意的话），这是一种试图取悦所有人的解决方案，但在实践中执行起来非常困难。

It means that there have to be some students in school five days a week.

这意味着每周必须有一些学生在学校上学五天。

But, of course, there's only so much space in the school for students with proper social distancing.

但是，当然，学校里只有这么多空间供学生保持适当的社交距离。

So how do you figure out who gets to attend and who does not get to attend, and what happens when you cannot give every family what it wants?

那么，您如何确定谁可以参加，谁不能参加，以及当您无法满足每个家庭想要的东西时会发生什么？

Meanwhile in the classrooms, as South Carolina heads towards the first day of classes September 8, teachers have to figure out how to do something that they did not do last spring when schools went on quarantine.

与此同时，在南卡罗来纳州即将迎来 9 月 8 日开学第一天之际，在教室里，老师们必须弄清楚如何做去年春天学校隔离时他们没有做的事情。

They had to figure out, how do you teach a class that is partly at home and partly in the room with you?

他们必须弄清楚，如何在部分在家、部分在教室的情况下教授课程？

Which is a particularly-- it's particularly funny to think for choir, it's a very difficult subject to teach virtually.

对于合唱团来说，这是一个特别有趣的事情，这是一个很难通过虚拟方式教授的科目。

Trying to sing in a Zoom with other people is just a nightmare, because you can't even-- if you say let's clap at the same time, you'll hear a bunch of different claps because everybody's--

尝试在 Zoom 中与其他人一起唱歌简直就是一场噩梦，因为你甚至不能——如果你说让我们同时鼓掌，你会听到一堆不同的鼓掌，因为每个人——

Oh, of course.

哦，当然。

There's a little delay, and that delay makes it impossible to sing together.

有一点延迟，这种延迟导致无法一起唱歌。

Yeah, not to mention that usually the software is built to identify who is speaking and amplify their voice, and silence other people.

是的，更不用说通常该软件是为了识别谁在说话并放大他们的声音并让其他人保持沉默而构建的。

So the only way to sing together is with everybody on mute, and what kind of rehearsal is that?

那么一起唱歌的唯一方法就是所有人都静音，那是什么样的排练呢？

And the one fourth of the class that's going to be in the room with him, they can't sing together in the room because singing in a chorus can be a super spreader event for the virus.

班上四分之一的学生将和他一起在房间里，他们不能在房间里一起唱歌，因为合唱可能是病毒的超级传播者。

Remember that choir near Seattle at the beginning of the pandemic where 52 people got sick?

还记得大流行开始时西雅​​图附近的唱诗班有 52 人生病吗？

Even with masks it's not safe, which means singing together is the one thing you cannot do in chorus.

即使戴着口罩也不安全，这意味着一起唱歌是你不能在合唱中做的一件事。

Matt's classes are 90 minutes long, and right now he figures he'll teach the kids on Zoom and the kids in the classroom together for half an hour at the beginning of it, lecture style, give out singing assignments to do at home--

马特的课程时长 90 分钟，现在他打算在开始时用 Zoom 教孩子们，然后让孩子们在教室里一起教半个小时，以讲座的方式，布置一些在家做的歌唱作业——

And then at the 30-minute mark or something, I would probably dismiss those Zoom students, say, like, OK, you've got your assignments.

然后在 30 分钟之类的时候，我可能会解雇那些 Zoom 学生，说，好吧，你已经完成作业了。

I'll see you soon-- take the students that are in the room somewhere outside where we can be spaced out and actually practice singing with them.

我很快就会见到你——把房间里的学生带到外面某个地方，我们可以分开，和他们一起练习唱歌。

Weather permitting.

天气允许的话。

Matt Yeah.

马特 是的。

We're going to have to just MacGyver the whole semester basically.

整个学期我们基本上都只能使用 MacGyver。

So you're re-engineering every part of your job?

所以你正在重新设计你工作的每一个部分？

Like, every single part of it?

比如，它的每一个部分？

Exactly.

确切地。

Ira Glass Other teachers have said this to me too, that virtual teaching is making them rethink and re-engineer the most basic things they do in their jobs to get through to kids.

Ira Glass 其他老师也对我说过这样的话，虚拟教学让他们重新思考和重新设计他们在工作中所做的最基本的事情，以便让孩子们明白。

A second grade teacher in Chicago told me that she was still struggling to figure out how she was going to hold the attention of a bunch of seven-year-olds over video for the mandated three hours a day of live, real-time instruction.

芝加哥的一位二年级老师告诉我，她仍然在努力弄清楚如何通过视频吸引一群七岁孩子的注意力，以便每天进行三小时的现场实时教学。

She was like, I don't even know if developmentally, that's even possible for them to focus on the screen for that long.

她说，我什至不知道从发育角度来看，他们是否有可能长时间专注于屏幕。

Not to mention, what activities was she going to give these little kids to do on their own, unsupervised by her, for the hours they would not be on video with her?

更不用说，在他们不和她一起视频的时间里，她会让这些小孩子在没有她监督的情况下自己做哪些活动？

She was spending weeks before school started, every day on her own time, unpaid to figure this out.

开学前，她花了几周时间，每天利用自己的时间，无偿地解决这个问题。

It's been a few days since I've recorded that conversation with Matt.

我和马特的谈话已经过去几天了。

And since then, his high school surveyed the teachers and realized that so many of them wanted to stay home and teach from home that there's no way they could actually have 25% of the students come back for in-person instruction.

从那时起，他所在的高中对老师进行了调查，发现他们中的很多人都想留在家里教书，以至于他们不可能真正让 25% 的学生回来接受面对面的指导。

Right now it seems like they're only going to have enough instructors for fewer than 10% of the students.

现在看来他们只能为不到 10% 的学生配备足够的导师。

But administrators are still figuring it out.

但管理员仍在解决这个问题。

And of course, who knows how everything is going to unfold in September when kids actually arrive.

当然，谁知道九月份孩子们真正到来时一切会如何展开。

Will anybody get COVID?

有人会感染新冠病毒吗？

Will things be fine?

事情会好吗？

Matt knows some teachers in states where school has already started.

马特认识一些已经开学的州的老师。

What it feels like right now is going cliff jumping with your friends.

现在的感觉就是和你的朋友一起去悬崖跳水。

And our friends next to us are Georgia and Alabama.

我们旁边的朋友是佐治亚州和阿拉巴马州。

And we're like, 1, 2, 3-- and we're like, I'll see you in four weeks, as they're jumping off.

我们说，1、2、3——我们说，四个星期后见，因为他们要出发了。

Because we want to see what happens to the other districts.

因为我们想看看其他地区会发生什么。

I'm starting to see-- I have friends in Louisiana that are teaching entirely virtually.

我开始发现——我在路易斯安那州有朋友完全通过虚拟方式进行教学。

I have friends in Georgia and Alabama that are posting their Instagram stories of Plexiglas in front of their desk, and like, here we go.

我在佐治亚州和阿拉巴马州的朋友们在办公桌前发布了他们在 Instagram 上发布的有机玻璃故事，然后我们开始吧。

Are you in that weird situation where you actually don't know what's going to happen and you're kind of worried, but you have to deal with parents and students?

您是否处于一种奇怪的情况，您实际上不知道会发生什么并且有点担心，但您必须与家长和学生打交道？

And with them, do you let them know your apprehensions?

和他们在一起时，你会让他们知道你的忧虑吗？

Or do you just keep like a big smiley face, and, like, it's going to be great?

或者你只是保持一个大笑脸，并且，就像，它会很棒？

Do you feel like you're lying?

你觉得自己在说谎吗？

[LAUGHS] Yeah, it sort of feels-- it feels a little contorted.

[笑]是的，感觉有点扭曲。

Like, I have teachers that are posting first day of school pictures as always.

就像，我的老师一如既往地发布开学第一天的照片。

And they sound bright and cheery.

他们的声音听起来明亮而欢快。

And it's like, can't wait to see my students, despite the challenges.

就像，尽管面临挑战，但还是迫不及待地想见到我的学生。

Really excited to show them a great new year.

很高兴向他们展示一个美好的新年。

But underneath the surface, these teachers are my friends, and I know these teachers are terrified.

但在表面之下，这些老师是我的朋友，我知道这些老师很害怕。

And it feels twisted this year because we really don't know what our safety looks like and what our students' safety looks like, but you still have to be the boss in front of the class and be like-- [CLAPS] --what's up, y'all?

今年感觉很扭曲，因为我们真的不知道我们的安全是什么样子，也不知道我们学生的安全是什么样子，但你仍然必须在全班同学面前成为老大，然后说——[鼓掌]——怎么了，你们大家？

So excited you're here.

很高兴你来到这里。

Let's go.

我们走吧。

I am going to put my best foot forward because I can't wait to teach kids, and I love doing that, but I'm scared [BLEEP] -less about what the year looks like.

我将竭尽全力，因为我迫不及待地想教孩子们，而且我喜欢这样做，但我很害怕[哔]——不太担心这一年会是什么样子。

From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life.

来自芝加哥 WBEZ 的《This American Life》。

Today on our program, teachers, students, parents launch themselves into a school year that is beginning like none that any of us have ever experienced.

今天，在我们的节目中，老师、学生、家长们开始了一个我们从未经历过的新学年。

Since the spring, everybody has been anticipating the school opening like this-- I don't know-- this asteroid that we've all been watching head towards Earth, floating towards us, tumbling towards us in space in slow motion.

从春天开始，每个人都在期待开学，就像这样——我不知道——这颗我们一直注视着的小行星朝地球飞来，向我们飘来，在太空中以慢动作向我们翻滚。

And now it is finally hitting, and we are finding out if it is just as bad as we thought it was going to be or way better than we hoped.

现在它终于来了，我们正在查明它是否像我们想象的那么糟糕，或者比我们希望的要好得多。

We have stories from around the country of it going badly and, I'm glad to tell you, and some places going surprisingly well, at least for now anyway.

我们有来自全国各地的故事，说情况很糟糕，但我很高兴告诉你，有些地方的情况出人意料地好，至少目前是这样。

Stay with us.

留在我们身边。

Act One, Masked Crusaders.

第一幕，蒙面十字军。

So right before school started in Utah this month, our producer Miki Meek caught up with two high school teachers.

就在本月犹他州开学之前，我们的制作人 Miki Meek 采访了两位高中老师。

Clark is 33.

克拉克今年 33 岁。

Bayley's 26.

贝莉26岁了

They're married, and we agreed not to use their last names.

他们已经结婚了，我们同意不使用他们的姓氏。

They joke that their pillow talk is reviewing each other's lessons for the next day.

他们开玩笑说，枕边谈话是在复习彼此第二天的课程。

Clark teaches art and photography.

克拉克教授艺术和摄影。

This year's his sixth year as a teacher.

今年是他当老师的第六年。

Bayley's a newbie, about to have her own classroom for the very first time, teaching sophomore English.

贝莉是一名新手，即将第一次拥有自己的教室，教二年级学生英语。

The two of them teach at different public high schools in Utah County, south of Salt Lake City.

他们两人在盐湖城南部犹他县的不同公立高中任教。

And they found themselves thrown into this really heated and ugly fight in the county right before schools open back up.

在学校重新开放之前，他们发现自己陷入了县里这场真正激烈而丑陋的斗争。

Here's Miki.

这是米基。

Clark and Bayley are still these fresh-faced, enthusiastic teachers, but they spent the summer stressing about their schools reopening because COVID cases had started surging in Utah.

克拉克和贝利仍然是这些新鲜面孔、热情的老师，但他们整个夏天都在担心学校重新开放，因为犹他州的新冠病例开始激增。

Both of them would have classes with as many as 40 students in them.

他们的班级都有多达 40 名学生。

Their classrooms are too small to space desks six feet apart.

他们的教室太小，课桌之间的距离无法保持六英尺。

And the windows, they don't open.

还有窗户，打不开。

Governor Gary Herbert issued a mask mandate for all K through 12 schools, which made them feel a little better, until a county commissioner, a guy named Bill Lee, he started lobbying against it.

州长加里·赫伯特 (Gary Herbert) 下令要求所有幼儿园至 12 所学校佩戴口罩，这让他们感觉好一些，直到一位名叫比尔·李 (Bill Lee) 的县专员开始游说反对这一政策。

He thought it should be up to parents whether their kids wear a mask.

他认为孩子是否戴口罩应该由家长决定。

He called it a, quote, "compassionate exemption."

他称之为“富有同情心的豁免”。

To try to drum up support, he invited parents to the commission's next meeting.

为了争取支持，他邀请家长参加委员会的下一次会议。

Suddenly you were either pro-mask or anti-mask.

突然之间，你要么支持戴口罩，要么反对戴口罩。

Clark and Bayley decided to go in support of masks.

克拉克和贝莉决定支持口罩。

But going into it I was like, is anyone really going to be there?

但一开始我就想，真的有人会去那里吗？

Like, who's going to go to protest masks?

比如，谁会去抗议戴口罩？

I just thought, are there going to be 10 people there?

我就想，那里会有10个人吗？

I have no idea.

我不知道。

There were actually around 100 people there.

那里实际上有大约100人。

The meeting was held at the county building in Provo.

会议在普罗沃县政府大楼举行。

And when Clark and Bayley got there, they saw mostly moms gathered outside, some with kids.

当克拉克和贝利到达那里时，他们看到外面大多是妈妈们聚集在一起，有些还带着孩子。

Hardly anyone was wearing a mask.

几乎没有人戴着口罩。

But one family who was wearing masks stopped Bayley.

但一位戴着口罩的家庭阻止了贝利。

They were like, you should go in, because there's like no one really in support of masks.

他们说，你应该进去，因为没有人真正支持戴口罩。

And so I was like, OK, I'm going in.

所以我就想，好吧，我要进去了。

And I just kind of ran in the building.

我就在大楼里跑了。

It was packed.

它已经挤满了人。

There were chairs set up with tape across them for social distancing, but that didn't work so well.

为了保持社交距离，椅子上贴着胶带，但效果不太好。

People were just peeling off the tape and sitting down.

人们只是撕掉胶带然后坐下来。

And people were just riled up.

人们被激怒了。

You could feel this energy that was really intense.

你可以感受到这种能量非常强烈。

And just wearing a mask in that space put a target on your head immediately.

只要在那个空间里戴上面具，就会立即将目标瞄准你的头部。

Yeah.

是的。

Miki Meek The room was hot and crowded, and a bunch of people without masks were fanning their faces.

米基·米克 房间里又热又拥挤，一群没有戴口罩的人在扇着脸。

That's a county commissioner named Tanner Ainge.

那是一位名叫坦纳·安吉的县专员。

He was not happy about this meeting.

他对这次会面并不满意。

Hello, everyone.

大家好。

This is going to be brief, I think.

我想这会很简短。

This is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing.

这与我们需要做的完全相反。

We are supposed to be physically distancing, wearing masks.

我们应该保持身体距离，戴口罩。

Let him talk!

让他说话吧！

Tanner Ainge Our department of health--

坦纳·安吉 我们的卫生部——

Everyone is encouraging us to do that.

每个人都鼓励我们这样做。

This room is not complying with these health guidelines.

该房间不符合这些健康准则。

This creates a health concern for this meeting, so--

这给这次会议带来了健康问题，所以——

[SHOUTING] Miki Meek In a little over a minute, the whole meeting was over.

[喊叫] Miki Meek 一分多钟后，整个会议就结束了。

Ainge stands up and walks out of the building.

安吉站起身，走出大楼。

People in the crowd call him a coward.

人群中的人们称他为胆小鬼。

Yeah, Tanner is a coward.

是的，坦纳是个胆小鬼。

Miki Meek And then--

米基·米克 然后——

USA!

美国！

USA!

美国！

USA!

美国！

Miki Meek Ainge later tweeted, "This is not a Parks and Rec episode.

米基·米克·安吉后来在推特上写道：“这不是《公园与休闲》的一集。

It's Utah County government." To him, this whole thing was just a political stunt.

这是犹他州县政府。”对他来说，这整件事只是一个政治噱头。

The county commission has no jurisdiction over school districts.

县委员会对学区没有管辖权。

They don't make decisions for them.

他们不为他们做决定。

It'd be like the sheriff's department holding a meeting to vote on the school budget.

这就像治安部门召开会议对学校预算进行投票一样。

It didn't make any sense.

这没有任何意义。

But Billy, the guy who wanted the governor to give the county a compassionate exemption from wearing masks, and another commissioner, they agreed to stay behind to listen to any parent who wanted to make a comment.

但是比利，那个希望州长给予该县不戴口罩的同情豁免的人和另一位专员，他们同意留下来听取任何想要发表评论的家长的意见。

Again, here's Bayley.

再说一次，这是贝利。

At that point, when I realized that people were going to be making comments, I kind of pushed my way into the room because I wanted to make a comment.

那时，当我意识到人们会发表评论时，我就挤进了房间，因为我想发表评论。

She got in line for the podium.

她排队登上讲台。

There were around 12 people ahead of her, even more behind her, mostly moms.

她前面大约有 12 个人，后面还有更多人，其中大部分是妈妈。

One of them had a baby carrier strapped to her chest.

其中一人的胸前绑着婴儿背带。

I watched this meeting on a Facebook livestream.

我在 Facebook 上观看了这次会议的直播。

Most of the speakers accepted that COVID is real.

大多数发言者都承认新冠病毒是真实存在的。

They didn't think it's a hoax.

他们并不认为这是一场骗局。

They supported hand washing and staying at home if you're sick.

他们支持洗手并在生病时呆在家里。

But they didn't trust the CDC, and in general all the precautions seemed overblown.

但他们不信任疾病预防控制中心，总的来说，所有的预防措施似乎都被夸大了。

Some sounded like libertarians.

有些听起来像是自由主义者。

There were tons of conspiracy theories.

有很多阴谋论。

Like that mom with the baby, she said this thing I heard a lot of parents there say, that CO2 and germs can get trapped in your mask and make you sick, which is totally false.

就像那位带着孩子的妈妈一样，她说了这件事，我听到那里的很多家长都说，二氧化碳和细菌会滞留在你的口罩里，让你生病，这是完全错误的。

You want our kids to breathe their own CO2?

你想让我们的孩子呼吸自己的二氧化碳吗？

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] Woman 2 That's right!

[欢呼和掌声]女人2 没错！

Do you really think it's good to breathe in your own germs for hours?

你真的认为几个小时呼吸自己的细菌有好处吗？

She's saying, do you really think it's good to breathe in your own germs for hours?

她说，你真的认为几个小时呼吸自己的细菌有好处吗？

This myth has taken off in parent groups all over the country.

这个神话已经在全国各地的家长团体中流传开来。

The American Academy of Pediatrics even put out a statement to try and dispel it.

美国儿科学会甚至发表声明试图消除这种说法。

And another conspiracy theory at this meeting, that mask mandates will lead to more kids getting abducted and sex trafficked-- also not true.

本次会议上的另一个阴谋论是，强制佩戴口罩将导致更多的孩子被绑架和性交易——这也是不正确的。

The fear is that if kids are wearing masks, they'll be harder to identify and rescue.

令人担心的是，如果孩子们戴着口罩，他们将更难被识别和营救。

Those numbers will continue to rise because of a world are at home and online all day and being masked.

这些数字将继续上升，因为世界整天都在家里上网，而且都被蒙蔽了。

It's a pedophile's dream come true.

这是恋童癖者的梦想成真。

Thomas Jefferson also kept coming up in this pretty ironic way.

托马斯·杰斐逊也不断以这种相当讽刺的方式出现。

I got on my Facebook page.

我进入了我的 Facebook 页面。

Thomas Jefferson said, I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

托马斯·杰斐逊说过，比起和平的奴役，我更喜欢危险的自由。

I will never be a slave, no matter what it takes.

我永远不会成为奴隶，无论付出什么代价。

Give me liberty, or give me death.

要么给我自由，要么给我死亡。

I mean that.

我的意思是。

I will do whatever it takes to have liberty.

为了获得自由，我将不惜一切代价。

Thank you.

谢谢。

[APPLAUSE] Miki Meek Listening to all these parents, Bayley and Clark were alarmed, worried that they might have to face classes of 40 kids who were going to fight with them about wearing masks.

[掌声]米基·米克 (Miki Meek) 听了所有这些家长的发言，贝利和克拉克感到震惊，担心他们可能不得不面对 40 名孩子的班级，他们会因为戴口罩问题与他们发生争执。

So Bayley, she got up to the mic.

贝莉走到麦克风前。

She was sweaty and nervous, but fired up.

她满头大汗，很紧张，但还是很兴奋。

My name is Bayley.

我叫贝利。

I'm experiencing fear and anxiety about many things.

我对很多事情感到恐惧和焦虑。

She tells the crowd she's a first-year teacher who's already juggling a lot of anxiety, and she's scared that she'll get COVID in her classroom.

她告诉人群，她是一名一年级老师，已经在应对很多焦虑，她担心自己会在教室里感染新冠病毒。

The crowd turns on her.

人群转向她。

Wearing a mask is a minor inconvenience, if you can even call it that.

戴口罩是一个小小的不便，如果你可以这么说的话。

That's Clark, doing some very teacher-like shushing.

那是克拉克，正在做一些非常老师式的嘘声。

Hey!

嘿！

Sh.

什。

Bayley I am honestly shocked right now by your behavior.

贝利 老实说，我现在对你的行为感到震惊。

You should be.

你应该是的。

Bayley I'm frankly so shocked that so many people have come out to oppose such a simple, harmless act.

贝利 坦率地说，我感到非常震惊，这么多人站出来反对这种简单、无害的行为。

We gave you your time.

我们给了你时间。

Be quiet.

安静。

Shut up.

住口。

Listen.

听。

It's like this for five minutes, and then Bayley finally ends her speech and takes a little bow.

就这样持续了五分钟，贝莉终于结束了她的演讲，微微鞠了一躬。

On their way out of the meeting, Clark, feeling sheepish, apologizes to the people that he told to shut up.

在离开会议的路上，克拉克感到不好意思，向他让他们闭嘴的人道歉。

That was my wife out there...

外面那个是我老婆...

I'm sorry.

对不起。

Thank you.

谢谢。

I've never been booed before.

我以前从未被嘘过。

It was just wild to be surrounded by so many grown adults who were shouting at me, calling me names.

被这么多成年人围着，他们对我大喊大叫，辱骂我，真是太疯狂了。

It was like, whoa.

就像，哇。

Also re-watching the video, I realized that I kind of did, like, a little bow after my comments, which is kind of embarrassing now.

又重新观看了视频，我意识到我在发表评论后有点鞠躬，现在有点尴尬。

But it was just like-- it felt like such an outrageous experience, and it was almost comical.

但这就像——感觉是一次令人震惊的经历，而且几乎是滑稽的。

But Bayley was also sympathetic to the parents in that room.

但贝利也同情那个房间里的父母。

She thought a lot of their hostility was coming from a place of fear.

她认为他们的敌意很大程度上来自于恐惧。

You know, like not wanting kids to have to be in schools where things feel very dystopian and like this fear that having to be masked is going to scare their children or something like that or impact them negatively.

你知道，就像不希望孩子们必须在感觉非常反乌托邦的学校里一样，就像担心必须戴上面具会吓到他们的孩子或类似的事情或对他们产生负面影响。

I feel like those are reasonable points in some ways, but also not at the same time.

我觉得这些观点在某些方面是合理的，但同时又不合理。

I grew up in Utah County.

我在犹他州州长大。

I still have a lot of friends and family there.

我仍然有很多朋友和家人在那里。

So I feel pretty safe betting that most of the people in that meeting were Mormon.

因此，我可以放心地打赌，参加这次会议的大多数人都是摩门教徒。

The majority of the county belongs to the church.

该县的大部分地区属于教会。

But watching that meeting, I saw something I didn't recognize-- Mormons yelling at other Mormons with total vitriol.

但在观看那次会议时，我看到了一些我不认识的东西——摩门教徒用十足的尖酸刻薄地对其他摩门教徒大喊大叫。

Bayley and Clark said they felt the same.

贝利和克拉克说他们也有同样的感觉。

They're from the area too.

他们也来自该地区。

By the way, I know we're not supposed to say Mormon anymore.

顺便说一句，我知道我们不应该再说摩门教了。

We're supposed to say Latter-day Saint.

我们应该说后期圣徒。

But I just don't actually know that many Mormons who use that with each other.

但我实际上并不知道有多少摩门教徒互相使用这个。

Anyway, right after Utah's Republican Governor Gary Herbert issued his mask mandate, church leadership in the state backed him up.

不管怎样，在犹他州共和党州长加里·赫伯特发布戴口罩命令后，该州的教会领导层就支持了他。

They asked Mormons to wear face coverings in public, calling it a sign of good citizenship.

他们要求摩门教徒在公共场合戴上面罩，称这是良好公民的标志。

Immediately there was pushback.

立刻就有了阻力。

I saw comments online about corruption and false prophets in the church.

我在网上看到关于教会腐败和假先知的评论。

That was mind-blowing.

那真是令人兴奋。

It's not like members never speak out against the church.

成员们并不是从来不公开反对教会。

It's just that I haven't seen it done so casually.

只是我还没见过这么随意的。

Pro-mask people were called maskers and mask-holes.

支持戴口罩的人被称为戴口罩者和戴口罩的人。

Governor Herbert called the parents who went to that county meeting foolish, and he refused to back down from his mask mandate, which just enraged the anti-mask movement in Utah County even more.

赫伯特州长称参加县会议的家长是愚蠢的，他拒绝放弃戴口罩的规定，这进一步激怒了犹他州的反戴口罩运动。

They held another rally and told parents to tell their kids to fight back against their teachers.

他们举行了另一次集会，并告诉家长告诉他们的孩子要反击老师。

Bayley and Clark wondered how widespread the feeling was and worried that some of the parents or fellow teachers at her new school would recognize Bayley from the county meeting and think she was a crazy radical.

贝莉和克拉克想知道这种感觉有多普遍，并担心新学校的一些家长或老师同事会认出县会议上的贝莉，并认为她是一个疯狂的激进分子。

Video had hit local news, and it was a big deal.

视频登上了当地新闻，这是一件大事。

Have you thought about what you're going to say in your classes on the first day, anticipating you might have kids who come from families that share some of the same beliefs of the people who were at the county meeting?

您是否想过第一天要在课堂上说些什么，并预计您的孩子可能来自与参加县会议的人们有着相同信仰的家庭？

I really don't know what I'm going to say or how I'm going to approach that conversation.

我真的不知道我要说什么，也不知道我将如何进行这次谈话。

Yeah.

是的。

Clark We really don't know what this is going to look like when the school year actually starts.

克拉克：我们真的不知道学年真正开始时会是什么样子。

And so we'll see what happens then.

所以我们会看看接下来会发生什么。

What if you get booed?

如果被嘘怎么办？

Bayley I will bow and walk out.

贝利 我会鞠躬并走出去。

[LAUGHS]

[笑]

Miki Meek On the first day of school, Bayley and Clark got in their cars and headed in opposite directions.

米基·米克 开学第一天，贝利和克拉克上了各自的车，朝相反的方向行驶。

Their schools are about a half hour apart.

他们的学校相距约半小时。

They both recorded voice memos for me while they were driving.

他们在开车时都为我录制了语音备忘录。

OK.

好的。

I am driving to school for my first day of teaching ever in my whole life as an actual teacher.

我开车去学校，这是我作为一名真正的老师一生中教学的第一天。

So there's kind of a mix of feeling excited and also nervous.

所以感觉既兴奋又紧张。

Hopefully I can remember students' faces through their masks.

希望我能透过面具记住学生们的脸。

The time is now 6:36.

现在时间是 6 点 36 分。

And I didn't sleep very well last night.

而且我昨晚睡得不太好。

I kind of tossed and turned.

我有点翻来覆去。

Worst case scenario today-- oh my gosh, I think I had a nightmare about that last night, where everybody came in and just was touching each other, and hugging each other, and not wearing masks.

今天最糟糕的情况是——天哪，我想我昨晚做了一个噩梦，每个人进来只是互相触摸，互相拥抱，而且没有戴口罩。

And I think there was a couple that was making out in the corner of my classroom-- just so much touching.

我想有一对情侣正在我教室的角落里亲热——太感人了。

And so I'm hoping students will wear masks today.

所以我希望学生今天戴口罩。

I'm hoping I won't have any major conflicts with students as they come in.

我希望当学生进来时我不会与他们发生任何重大冲突。

Judging on the anti-mask hearing that Bayley and I went to, I mean, all bets are off.

从我和贝利参加的反口罩听证会来看，我的意思是，所有的赌注都失败了。

As students walk into his classroom, Clark stands at the door to greet them and squeezes hand sanitizer into their hands.

当学生们走进教室时，克拉克站在门口迎接他们，并将洗手液挤到他们手中。

Hi, guys.

嗨，大家好。

Hand sanitizer coming in hot.

洗手液火热上市。

There you go.

就这样吧。

Thank you.

谢谢。

Clark Hey, dude, hand sanitizer.

克拉克 嘿，伙计，洗手液。

Clark describes his teaching persona as dorky dad.

克拉克将他的教学形象描述为傻爸爸。

Once everyone is seated, he gives his warm-up.

当所有人都就座后，他开始热身。

Hello, everyone.

大家好。

Welcome.

欢迎。

How are you guys feeling today?

你们今天感觉怎么样？

Are you feeling excited to be here?

来到这里你感到兴奋吗？

Raise your hand if you're excited.

如果你很兴奋，请举手。

[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]

[紧张地笑]

This is awkward.

这很尴尬。

In a class of 36 kids, only a few of them raise their hands.

全班有 36 个孩子，只有少数人举手。

He had never taught a class that was so quiet and somber.

他从来没有教过如此安静和阴郁的班级。

Raise your hand if you're just kind of like stressed and sad.

如果您只是感到压力和悲伤，请举手。

[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY] Few of you.

[紧张地笑] 你们中很少有人。

Is anybody feeling anxious about wearing masks or feeling bummed about wearing masks?

有人因为戴口罩而感到焦虑或因为戴口罩而感到沮丧吗？

A little bit?

一点点？

Yeah, tell me more.

是的，告诉我更多。

You're bummed about wearing masks?

你还在为戴口罩而烦恼吗？

It sucks?

很糟糕吗？

Tell me more.

告诉我更多。

Why does it suck?

为什么它很糟糕？

I don't know.

我不知道。

Miki Meek The student says, I don't know.

Miki Meek 学生说，我不知道。

I just don't feel like it sometimes.

我只是有时候不喜欢这样。

And then, my dad talks about it all the time.

然后我爸爸就一直在谈论这件事。

It's just to make people feel better.

这只是为了让人们感觉更好。

Clark responds deftly by first trying to validate the student.

克拉克巧妙地回应，首先尝试验证学生的观点。

Yeah, I mean, from a medical standpoint masks are definitely not perfect.

是的，我的意思是，从医学角度来看，口罩绝对不是完美的。

If we really wanted to prevent every single germ, we'd have to wear full hazmat suits.

如果我们真的想预防每一种细菌，我们就必须穿上全套防护服。

We'd have to be in a controlled environment.

我们必须处于受控环境中。

So masks are not 100% effective.

所以口罩并不是100%有效。

However, they are effective in stopping the spread or slowing the spread of these.

然而，它们可以有效阻止或减缓这些疾病的传播。

And so I know a lot of people are really, really frustrated about wearing masks because they're uncomfortable, and they make breathing hard, and blah, blah, blah.

所以我知道很多人对戴口罩感到非常非常沮丧，因为它们不舒服，而且使呼吸困难，等等等等。

Even though they're not perfect, I think it's worth doing as a gesture of kindness toward people who might have more sensitive immune systems or might be more at risk.

尽管它们并不完美，但我认为这是值得做的，作为对那些可能拥有更敏感的免疫系统或可能面临更大风险的人的善意之举。

I was just barely talking with a student who lives with her grandma, and also works at a nursing home.

我刚刚和一个和奶奶住在一起、也在疗养院工作的学生交谈过。

And so she's trying to take every precaution to make sure that she doesn't get sick.

因此，她正在努力采取一切预防措施以确保自己不会生病。

So there are a lot of situations like that.

所以类似这样的情况还有很多。

Little by little, his class starts to open up.

渐渐地，他的班级开始开放。

Clark keeps lobbing questions at them.

克拉克不断向他们提出问题。

Anybody here play sports?

这里有人参加运动吗？

A football player tells the room that his whole team wears masks for games and practice.

一名足球运动员告诉房间里，他的整个球队在比赛和训练时都戴着口罩。

A girl says she hates it, that they make her glasses fog up.

一个女孩说她讨厌它，因为它们让她的眼镜起雾。

About 15 minutes into this conversation, Clark uses the tactic that didn't work with the parents at the county meeting.

谈话进行了大约 15 分钟后，克拉克使用了在县会议上对家长们不起作用的策略。

He tells them about his own anxiety.

他向他们讲述了他自己的焦虑。

That's been one of my anxieties coming back to school, is I don't want to have to tell somebody to wear a mask.

这是我回到学校后的焦虑之一，就是我不想告诉别人戴口罩。

You know?

你知道？

That feels stressful to me.

这让我感觉压力很大。

And the kids, they seem to get it.

而孩子们，他们似乎明白了。

Clark has two other periods that day, and he starts each class with the same soapbox spiel.

克拉克那天还有另外两节课，他每节课都会用同样的肥皂剧开始。

He never gets any push back.

他永远不会受到任何反击。

The kids all wear their masks, and nobody makes out.

孩子们都戴着口罩，谁也看不出来。

After school, Clark and Bayley crash exhausted on their living room couch with their dog and debrief about how their first days went.

放学后，克拉克和贝莉精疲力竭地和他们的狗一起躺在客厅的沙发上，汇报他们第一天的情况。

The hallways were just kind of the wild, wild West.

走廊就像狂野的西部。

Yeah.

是的。

Clark Like, anything went.

克拉克 就像，什么都可以。

And so many students, as soon as they left their classrooms, would just peel their masks off and put it around their chin--

而很多学生，一离开教室，就把口罩摘下来，戴在下巴上——

What?

什么？

Clark Or just rip it off their faces.

克拉克 或者干脆把它从他们脸上撕下来。

And then as they walk closer to me, I'd say, hey, masks.

然后当他们走近我时，我会说，嘿，面具。

And they would say, oh, yeah, sorry, I forgot, and then hurry and put it back on.

他们会说，哦，是的，对不起，我忘了，然后赶紧把它戴回去。

And they'd put it back on as they walked into my classroom.

当他们走进我的教室时，他们会把它重新戴上。

I mean, there's just no way that the hall monitors can see everything that's going on.

我的意思是，大厅监视器不可能看到正在发生的一切。

Yeah.

是的。

Clark When you talked about masks, how did you approach the mask conversation?

克拉克（Clark）当您谈论面具时，您是如何处理面具对话的？

They walk in the door.

他们走进门。

You're like, hi.

你就像，嗨。

And they just look at you, or they're just like, hi.

他们只是看着你，或者只是说，嗨。

And you're just like, do you hate my guts?

你就像，你讨厌我的胆量吗？

[LAUGHS] Miki Meek She told Clark she started class by showing them slides of Billie Eilish wearing a lace mask and Beyoncé wearing a mask upside down.

[笑] 米基·米克 (Miki Meek) 告诉克拉克，她在开始上课时向他们展示了比莉·艾利什 (Billie Eilish) 戴着蕾丝面具和碧昂斯 (Beyoncé) 戴着倒置面具的幻灯片。

And in my first class, everyone was totally fine.

在我的第一节课上，每个人都很好。

In my second and third classes, there were kids who kept wearing them under their nose.

在我的第二节和第三节课上，有些孩子一直把它们戴在鼻子下。

And I just had to keep being like, if you're not wearing your mask over your mouth and nose, wear your mask over your mouth and nose.

我只能继续说，如果你没有戴口罩遮住嘴和鼻子，那就戴上口罩遮住嘴和鼻子。

I had to call out a couple kids today because they just kept on letting their nose stick out.

今天我不得不叫出几个孩子，因为他们总是把鼻子伸出来。

Yeah.

是的。

Clark And I was like-- [SNAPS FINGERS] --hey, Cody, Josh.

克拉克，我当时想——[打响指]——嘿，科迪，乔什。

Cover your nose up.

捂住鼻子。

[LAUGHTER] Bayley Oh, also, there was a kid who was wearing a full yellow hazmat suit with like a gas mask-looking thing.

[笑声]Bayley 哦，还有一个孩子穿着一套全黄色的防护服，上面有一个类似防毒面具的东西。

And I think it was like a joke, but it also was hard to tell.

我认为这就像一个笑话，但也很难说清楚。

And my friend who was his teacher said that it looked like he was just dying in there, like so hot.

我的朋友（他的老师）说他看起来就像快要死在那里一样，太热了。

And there was another girl wearing a mask in one of my classes-- apparently this is a thing that I didn't know about, but she was wearing a mask that said "Virginity rocks." So I don't know what that's about, but it was funny to see that on a mask.

我的一个班级里还有另一个戴着面具的女孩——显然这是我不知道的事情，但她戴着的面具上写着“童贞摇滚”。所以我不知道那是什么，但在面具上看到它很有趣。

That's the extent of Utah's sex education.

这就是犹他州性教育的程度。

Totally.

完全。

Bayley Oh, man.

贝利 哦，伙计。

It was a wild thing.

这是一件疯狂的事情。

I don't know.

我不知道。

I was thinking about it after school today, and I was just comparing these sweet sophomore students to the parents who were in that meeting.

今天放学后我在想这个问题，我只是将这些可爱的二年级学生与参加会议的家长进行比较。

And like, oh my gosh, these cutie, cutie high school students are just so nice, and so willing to just do this thing so they can be in school.

就像，天哪，这些可爱的高中生真是太好了，而且愿意做这件事，这样他们就可以上学了。

And all those parents were just losing their minds and being so childish and unreasonable.

所有这些父母都失去了理智，变得如此幼稚和不可理喻。

I don't know.

我不知道。

It just was really nice.

真是太好了。

[LAUGHS] Are you tearing up a little bit?

[笑]你有一点流泪吗？

Just really nice students who want to be at school.

只是非常好的学生，他们想上学。

The reality is that more than half a million people live in Utah County, and only 100 people were at that meeting.

现实情况是，犹他县有超过 50 万人居住，而参加那次会议的只有 100 人。

The consensus among most parents is that they'll make their kids wear masks if it gets them out of the house.

大多数家长的共识是，如果能让孩子出门就戴口罩。

Miki Meek is one of the producers of our show.

米基·米克是我们节目的制作人之一。

Act Two, Screen Times at Ridgemont High.

第二幕，里奇蒙特高中的放映时间。

So across the country right now, kids are facing the weird experience of getting to know new classes and new teachers, all through Zoom.

因此，现在在全国范围内，孩子们都面临着通过 Zoom 认识新班级和新老师的奇怪经历。

It's especially intense for kids who are jumping into a new school.

对于即将进入新学校的孩子来说尤其如此。

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talked to some students who are making the jump to high school this fall, and it is a big job, right?

制片人阿维瓦·德科恩菲尔德 (Aviva DeKornfeld) 与一些今年秋天即将升入高中的学生进行了交谈，这是一项艰巨的任务，对吧？

It's one that causes a lot of anxiety and excitement in normal times.

这是一种在平时引起很多焦虑和兴奋的现象。

Now, all of it happening online.

现在，所有这一切都发生在网上。

One girl told Aviva that she'd already thought through how to make friends at her new school.

一名女孩告诉 Aviva，她已经想好了如何在新学校交朋友。

She said she had a plan to email kids to discuss homework, and then she would try to shift the conversation to other topics and see if they went there.

她说她计划给孩子们发电子邮件讨论家庭作业，然后她会尝试将谈话转移到其他话题，看看他们是否会去那里。

And Aviva talked to this 15-year-old in Los Angeles, Alex Hymen, at the end of his very first day of high school about how he's prepped for remote learning with a bunch of kids that he doesn't know.

在高中第一天结束时，Aviva 与洛杉矶的 15 岁学生 Alex Hymen 谈论了他如何准备与一群他不认识的孩子进行远程学习。

This week, I'm painting my room.

这周，我正在粉刷我的房间。

I actually just finished this morning.

事实上我今天早上刚刚完成。

Well, last year in the spring, when online school started in March or April, believe it or not, a lot of kids made comments on my bright, vibrant baby blue and orange room that I've had since when I was very young.

好吧，去年春天，当网上学校在三月或四月开始时，无论你相信与否，很多孩子都对我从小就拥有的明亮、充满活力的淡蓝色和橙色房间发表了评论。

And I thought it'd be cool to have a multicolored room, very bright.

我认为拥有一个五彩缤纷的房间会很酷，非常明亮。

What do kids say?

孩子们怎么说？

Alex Hymen They were just like, nice room.

Alex Hymen 他们就像，漂亮的房间。

Like, oh, that's a very neutral color, just sarcastic comments like that.

就像，哦，这是一种非常中性的颜色，只是像这样的讽刺评论。

I mean, it's a very first-world problem that my room's not the right color.

我的意思是，我的房间颜色不合适，这是一个非常严重的问题。

How old were you when you first painted it, the bright colors?

当你第一次画它时，你几岁了，鲜艳的颜色？

I believe I was, like, seven, eight.

我相信我大概七八岁。

I was like, yes, it's going to be so cool and awesome.

我当时想，是的，这将会非常酷而且非常棒。

And now here I'm 15, and now I just want a white room.

现在我已经 15 岁了，现在我只想要一间白色的房间。

Now, actually-- I just finished this morning.

现在，实际上——我今天早上刚刚完成。

Now it's all the light gray I picked out, and I actually like it a lot.

现在都是我挑的浅灰色了，其实我很喜欢。

My mom was a little sad because I'm growing up, and she was upset about that.

我妈妈有点难过，因为我长大了，她对此感到不安。

Oh.

哦。

What did she say?

她说什么？

Alex Hymen I mean, she was like, I'm going to miss this room.

亚历克斯·海门（Alex Hymen）我的意思是，她说，我会想念这个房间的。

Like, remember when you picked out the colors and--

就像，记住当你挑选颜色时——

Yeah.

是的。

It's funny, your mom was upset that you're growing up.

有趣的是，你的妈妈对你的成长感到不安。

And you're like, that's the point.

你说，这就是重点。

Yeah, exactly.

是的，完全正确。

Yeah.

是的。

Aviva DeKornfeld So you were on Zoom calls today.

Aviva DeKornfeld 所以你今天参加了 Zoom 通话。

Did you look at your little box on Zoom--

你有没有在 Zoom 上看过你的小盒子——

Yeah.

是的。

Aviva DeKornfeld --to check out how it looked?

Aviva DeKornfeld——看看它看起来怎么样？

Yeah, I did.

是的，我做到了。

I did.

我做到了。

Aviva DeKornfeld How did it feel seeing your room in the camera?

Aviva DeKornfeld 在镜头中看到自己的房间感觉如何？

It looked very good, I will say.

我会说，它看起来非常好。

It looked very cool.

看起来很酷。

I was happy about it.

我对此很高兴。

Did the other kids have childhood stuff in their bedrooms?

其他孩子的卧室里有童年的东西吗？

I don't really pay much attention to it, along with them not really paying attention to me, which is weird because even though we both know that, it still makes us feel self-conscious about it.

我并没有真正关注它，他们也没有真正关注我，这很奇怪，因为即使我们都知道这一点，但这仍然让我们感到不自在。

That probably didn't make any sense.

这可能没有任何意义。

What I'm trying to say is that I look at some of them, but I don't really analyze the rooms.

我想说的是，我看了其中一些房间，但我并没有真正分析房间。

Yeah, exactly.

是的，完全正确。

Aviva DeKornfeld Looking at the other kids' rooms and realizing you don't actually really care about how they look, did it make you feel like it didn't matter if you had switched up your room or not?

Aviva DeKornfeld 看着其他孩子的房间，意识到你实际上并不真正关心他们的外观，这是否让你觉得是否换了房间并不重要？

What's the first thing you saw today at school?

今天你在学校看到的第一件事是什么？

I logged on, and it was our whole grade, so around a little less than 200.

我登录了，这是我们的整个年级，所以大约不到200。

I'm not sure of the exact number.

我不确定确切的数字。

But yeah, it was a bunch of boxes.

但是，是的，那是一堆盒子。

Most of the kids-- or I guess half the kids had their cameras on.

大多数孩子——或者我猜一半的孩子都打开了相机。

Half had them off.

一半人把它们脱掉了。

I started with mine on and then turned it off, to be honest.

老实说，我一开始是打开的，然后又关掉了。

Really?

真的吗？

Why?

为什么？

Alex Hymen I guess it just-- a lot of other kids had it off, like most them towards the end.

亚历克斯·海门（Alex Hymen）我猜是这样的——很多其他孩子都没有做到这一点，就像大多数孩子在最后的时候一样。

And I didn't want to be the one kid that had it on, if that makes sense.

我不想成为唯一一个戴着它的孩子，如果这有道理的话。

So you sort of took your cue from the other kids.

所以你有点从其他孩子那里得到了暗示。

Aviva DeKornfeld talking to Alex Hymen in Los Angeles.

阿维瓦·德科恩菲尔德 (Aviva DeKornfeld) 在洛杉矶与亚历克斯·海门 (Alex Hymen) 交谈。

Aviva's one of the producers of our show.

Aviva 是我们节目的制作人之一。

Coming up, an elementary school that carefully did everything you could possibly do to prepare for students coming back.

即将到来的是，一所小学认真地做了一切可能为学生返校做准备的事情。

And then first day, it all goes south in a way nobody ever expected.

然后第一天，一切就以一种没人预料到的方式恶化了。

That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues.

芝加哥公共广播电台一分钟后我们的节目仍在继续。

It's This American Life.

这就是美国生活。

I'm Ira Glass.

我是艾拉·格拉斯。

Today's program is about schools reopening this fall.

今天的节目是关于学校今年秋天重新开学的。

And can I say, of all the cataclysmic things that happened this past week around our country-- wildfires, Hurricane Laura, the shootings in Kenosha-- school reopenings was on the calendar.

我可以说，在过去一周我们国家发生的所有灾难性事件中——野火、劳拉飓风、基诺沙枪击事件——学校重新开放都在日历上。

You know, it's the one thing out of all those things that we knew would happen and had time to prepare for, and still it somehow feels like the whole summer has been an all-nighter for a test that we're having this fall, and lots of parents and educators are feeling very shaky about how the test is going to go.

你知道，这是我们知道会发生并且有时间准备的所有事情中的一件事，但不知怎的，整个夏天对于我们今年秋天要进行的考试来说仍然感觉像是通宵达旦，许多家长和教育工作者对考试将如何进行感到非常不稳定。

How it is going is what we're documenting on today's show.

我们在今天的节目中记录了它的进展情况。

And we have arrived at Act Three of our program--

我们已经到了我们计划的第三幕——

Act Three, Future Imperfect.

第三幕，不完美的未来。

This next story is from a high school in Tennessee, Maryville High School.

下一个故事来自田纳西州的一所高中，玛丽维尔高中。

This is one of the first in the country to open up.

这是国内最早开放的地方之一。

And it opened as cases were rising in the area.

随着该地区病例的增加，它开始了。

On the COVID map that Harvard Global Health Institute maintains, the county is currently red as we get today's show on the air.

在哈佛全球健康研究所维护的新冠疫情地图上，当我们播出今天的节目时，该县目前呈红色。

Red, the institute says, means that they're at a tipping point for uncontrolled spread.

该研究所表示，红色意味着它们正处于不受控制的传播的临界点。

That's exactly the kind of situation that lots of teachers around the country have been saying would keep them from returning to their classrooms.

全国各地的许多教师都表示，这种情况会阻止他们返回教室。

Maryville, however, has been at it for a month now.

然而，玛丽维尔已经这样做了一个月了。

So what's it like?

那么它是什么样子的呢？

How are they holding up?

他们还坚持得怎么样？

For a glimpse of the future that awaits many educators elsewhere, David Kestenbaum talked with a teacher named Stacey Travis.

为了一睹其他地方许多教育工作者的未来，大卫·凯斯滕鲍姆与一位名叫斯泰西·特拉维斯的老师进行了交谈。

Stacey is the kind of teacher people go to when they have problems.

史黛西是那种人们遇到问题时会求助的老师。

A lot of the time they're math problems.

很多时候都是数学问题。

That's what she teaches.

这就是她所教的。

One of the days we talked, she got a call in the middle of the day from a kid who wasn't even in school that year.

我们交谈的有一天，她在中午接到了一个当年根本没上学的孩子打来的电话。

He'd graduated.

他已经毕业了。

He was in his dorm room in college.

他在大学的宿舍里。

And so I call him back, and he was like, I don't know how to solve this.

所以我给他回了电话，他说，我不知道如何解决这个问题。

And he shows me this paper.

他给我看了这张纸。

And I said, what class are you in?

我说，你是哪个班的？

And he goes, freshman engineering.

然后他就走了，工程学新生。

And I said, I taught you how to solve that.

我说，我教你如何解决这个问题。

He goes, I know.

他走了，我知道。

That's why I called you.

这就是我打电话给你的原因。

The decision to go back to school in the middle of a pandemic, it's a different kind of problem.

在大流行期间决定重返学校，这是一个不同类型的问题。

Even before school opened, there were cases.

甚至在开学之前，就已经出现了病例。

Some kids couldn't come in on the first day because they tested positive.

有些孩子第一天无法进来，因为他们的检测结果呈阳性。

And she says a couple teachers have taken these extra precautions in their classrooms.

她说，一些老师在教室里采取了这些额外的预防措施。

Like one has this-- it almost looks like the old-fashioned bathtubs with the ring around it with the curtain, and it goes all the way around their desk.

就像有人拥有的那样——它看起来几乎就像老式浴缸，周围有环和窗帘，而且它一直围绕着他们的桌子。

Wait, wait.

等等，等等。

So the teacher's desk is basically surrounded with, like, a shower curtain?

那么老师的桌子周围基本上都是浴帘之类的？

Even with all the masks and social distancing, Stacey says school feels kind of normal once the day gets started.

史黛西说，尽管戴着口罩并保持社交距离，但一开始学校就感觉很正常。

But there's always this menace that feels just offstage.

但总有一种威胁感在舞台之外。

Since the high school opened, several students have tested positive.

自高中开学以来，已有多名学生检测结果呈阳性。

She gets an email every time.

她每次都会收到一封电子邮件。

When we talked, she had one student out awaiting test results.

当我们交谈时，她让一名学生出去等待测试结果。

It doesn't look like any of the students got the virus from school, but there has been one case in the district where it looks like a maintenance worker may have gotten COVID from a colleague.

看起来没有任何学生从学校感染了病毒，但该地区出现了一个案例，一名维修工人可能是从同事那里感染了新冠病毒。

There are moments that it worries me, and I can give you a specific example.

有些时候我很担心，我可以给你举一个具体的例子。

I had a student ask for help.

我有一个学生寻求帮助。

And I had my mask on.

我戴着面具。

I have my mask on every time I walk up close to a student to offer help.

每次我走近学生提供帮助时，我都会戴上口罩。

And he had his mask on, but had it below his nose.

他戴着面具，但面具位于鼻子下方。

And I was writing on his desk, and we were talking through this problem.

我正在他的桌子上写字，我们正在讨论这个问题。

And I could feel his breath on my arm.

我能感觉到他的呼吸在我的手臂上。

And that kind of made me have a moment of, oh, my gosh, he's breathing on me.

这让我有那么一刻，哦，天哪，他在我身上呼吸。

I can feel the breath coming out of his nose, onto my arm.

我能感觉到呼吸从他的鼻子里吹到我的手臂上。

And after I finished helping him, which I do this after I help any kid at their desk, I sanitized my hands.

在我帮助完他之后，我在帮助办公桌上的任何孩子之后都会这样做，我消毒了我的手。

But then I also have some spray sanitizer, and I just sprayed it down my arm.

但我也有一些喷雾消毒剂，我只是把它喷在我的手臂上。

And I know it probably looked weird, and I wasn't trying to make him feel uncomfortable, but it made me feel a little bit better.

我知道这看起来可能很奇怪，我并不是想让他感到不舒服，但这让我感觉好一点。

Do you think about the question of sort of risk with math ever--

你有没有想过数学的风险问题——

[LAUGHS] David Kestenbaum --since you're a math person?

[笑] David Kestenbaum——既然你是数学家？

Yeah.

是的。

I don't know.

我不知道。

Stacey Travis --doing my job?

史黛西·特拉维斯——做我的工作吗？

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

是的。

There are this many positive cases in the community or this many people in school over this period of time.

这段时间社区里有这么多阳性案例，学校里有这么多人。

I'm in contact with this number of them.

我正在与他们中的这些人保持联系。

You could do the numbers.

你可以做数字。

Oh, yeah.

哦，是的。

I could definitely do the numbers.

我绝对可以做这些数字。

I don't let myself do the numbers, because I think I've just kind of realized that I'm probably going to get it.

我不会让自己计算数字，因为我想我已经意识到我可能会得到它。

Either I'm going to get it from a student, or I'm going to get it from my kid who got it from another kid.

要么我从学生那里得到它，要么我从我的孩子那里得到它，而我的孩子从另一个孩子那里得到它。

Yeah.

是的。

Stacey Travis Or I'm going to get it from my husband who got it from one of the workers on his job site.

史黛西·特拉维斯（Stacey Travis）或者我要从我丈夫那里得到它，他从他工作现场的一名工人那里得到它。

What do you think about that?

你对此有何看法？

It might be OK, but it might not.

可能没问题，但也可能不行。

I know.

我知道。

I know.

我知道。

It might be OK, and it might not.

可能没问题，也可能没问题。

And again, it's one of those-- the what-ifs that I can't just let myself think about.

再说一次，这是我不能让自己思考的假设之一。

That's a kind of amazing degree of fatalism.

这是一种令人惊奇的宿命论。

Somehow we're at a place where simply by doing her job she feels sure she's going to get sick.

不知何故，我们现在所处的境地是，只要做好她的工作，她就确信自己会生病。

There are moments that I am super scared about getting it.

有时我非常害怕得到它。

There are moments that I wonder, if I do get it, what's going to happen to my kids?

有时我会想，如果我真的得到了它，我的孩子们会发生什么？

Of course there's moments like that.

当然也有这样的时刻。

I don't know.

我不知道。

All of the conversations are hard, no matter what way you look at it.

无论你从什么角度来看，所有的对话都是艰难的。

It's like the virus is this thing that you think about, then don't think about.

就好像病毒是你想的东西，然后就不再想了。

Then you worry that you're not thinking about it.

然后你担心自己没有考虑到这一点。

I wanted to see what a class was actually like, given all this.

考虑到这一切，我想看看班级实际上是什么样子。

Here's how things work.

事情是这样的。

If your last name begins with a letter between A and K, you come in Monday and Wednesday.

如果您的姓氏以 A 和 K 之间的字母开头，则您将在周一和周三前来。

On Tuesday and Thursday, you join the class by Zoom from home.

周二和周四，您可以在家通过 Zoom 参加课程。

If your last name begins with a letter between L and Z, it's the reverse.

如果您的姓氏以 L 和 Z 之间的字母开头，则相反。

Friday, everybody is remote.

星期五，每个人都很遥远。

I watched on Zoom as Stacey taught some juniors how to graph polynomials.

我在 Zoom 上看到 Stacey 教一些三年级学生如何绘制多项式图表。

This is x going to positive infinity, and this is y going to positive infinity.

这是 x 趋向正无穷大，这是 y 趋向正无穷大。

Does that make sense to you?

这对你来说有意义吗？

It seemed to go pretty well, even for the kids who weren't in the room.

即使对于不在房间里的孩子来说，一切似乎也进展顺利。

Let me get a brave person from at home who wants to talk through it.

让我从家里找一个勇敢的人来谈谈这件事。

Who's going to unmute?

谁要取消静音？

Y'all are going to make me call on you, aren't you?

你们都会让我打电话给你们，不是吗？

I'll try it.

我会尝试一下。

Stacey Travis Thank you, Emma, for being a brave soul.

史黛西·特拉维斯（Stacey Travis），谢谢你，艾玛，你是一个勇敢的灵魂。

OK, what you got?

好的，你得到了什么？

OK, so I know-- David Kestenbaum Given how well it went, I asked her why not have everybody be remote?

好吧，我知道了——David Kestenbaum 鉴于进展顺利，我问她为什么不让每个人都远程办公呢？

Why take the risk of doing anything in person?

为什么要冒亲自做任何事情的风险？

She said teaching online, you miss a lot.

她说在线教学，你会错过很多。

It's much easier for kids to get lost.

孩子们更容易迷路。

If they're in the room, she can keep tabs, walk around, look over their shoulders.

如果他们在房间里，她可以密切关注、四处走动、监视他们。

And lots of kids do way better if they're there in person, interacting with other kids and with the teacher.

如果很多孩子亲自到场，与其他孩子和老师互动，他们会做得更好。

There are kids who need extra attention.

有些孩子需要额外的关注。

Just that day, she'd helped a student get through a test that he'd failed before, despite trying really hard.

就在那天，她帮助一名学生通过了一次他之前没有通过的考试，尽管他非常努力。

I got to tell him face to face that I was proud of him.

我必须当面告诉他我为他感到骄傲。

That's different.

那是不同的。

He looked at me, and I said, way to go, man.

他看着我，我说，干得好，伙计。

And we fist bumped.

我们还碰了碰拳头。

And he had a huge grin on his face.

他脸上挂着灿烂的笑容。

He knows that I've got his back.

他知道我会支持他。

He had that victory moment.

他有那个胜利的时刻。

And that's the stuff that like-- that's why I feel a little bit on a high.

这就是我喜欢的东西——这就是为什么我感觉有点兴奋。

These are the moments that I just live for.

这些就是我活着的时刻。

She was so happy, happy she was in school that day.

她很高兴，很高兴那天她在学校。

She's there because the kids need her.

她在那里是因为孩子们需要她。

I think it's also true that she needs them.

我认为她确实需要它们。

David Kestenbaum is one of the producers of our show.

大卫·凯斯滕鲍姆是我们节目的制片人之一。

Act Four, The Case of the Well-Prepared Elementary School.

第四幕，准备充分的小学案例。

So next, we go to a school that was remarkably ready for the first day, Tindley Summit Academy in Indianapolis.

接下来，我们去了一所为第一天做好充分准备的学校，印第安纳波利斯的廷德利峰会学院。

It's an elementary school, a charter school, pretty small, fewer than 300 students.

这是一所小学，一所特许学校，很小，学生不到 300 人。

And it was set up especially well to roll out all the new COVID safety precautions and procedures, because like lots of charter schools the whole philosophy of the school, from the kids all the way up to the principal, is very regimented.

它的设置特别好，可以推出所有新的新冠安全预防措施和程序，因为像许多特许学校一样，学校的整个理念，从孩子们一直到校长，都是非常严格的。

Kids walk silently in the hallways.

孩子们在走廊里默默地走着。

There's a strict dress code, super involved teacher trainings.

有严格的着装要求，并接受超级参与的教师培训。

But even a place that could prepare so well, something big happened that first day that nobody saw coming.

但即使是一个准备得如此充分的地方，第一天就发生了一件没人预料到的大事。

Stephanie Wang reports for a website that covers education that I am a fan of.

斯蒂芬妮·王（Stephanie Wang）为一个网站报道，该网站涵盖我所喜欢的教育领域。

It's called Chalk Beat.

这就是所谓的粉笔节拍。

And for a month she watched Tindley Summit prepare for their reopening and then was there when the kids finally showed up.

在一个月的时间里，她看着廷德利峰会为重新开放做准备，然后当孩子们终于出现时，她就在那里。

Tindley Summit started the year with two weeks of online learning, but this is the moment everyone's been waiting for, the first day children are allowed back into the building for in-person instruction.

廷德利峰会以两周的在线学习开始了新的一年，但这是每个人都在等待的时刻，这是孩子们被允许回到大楼接受面对面指导的第一天。

It's 7:30 in the morning, and parents are already lining up in the parking lot.

现在是早上7点30分，家长们已经在停车场排队了。

Drop-off has been shortened to a frenzied 30-minute window to keep kids from gathering before classes start.

接送时间已缩短至 30 分钟，以防止孩子们在上课前聚集。

A tiny first grader in a Spider-Man backpack named Karlo walks from the car to the front door, where a teacher leans down, aiming a handheld infrared thermometer at his forehead.

一名名叫卡洛（Karlo）的小个子一年级学生，背着蜘蛛侠背包，从车里走到前门，老师弯下腰，将手持式红外温度计对准他的额头。

Good morning, buddy.

早上好，伙计。

I'm going to take your temperature, OK?

我给你量一下体温，可以吗？

I just need to do one little click.

我只需要轻轻点击一下。

I'm standing with the principal of Tindley Summit, David McGuire, who's been planning for this moment for months, to get more than 200 children out of their cars and into the right classrooms in half an hour, all while keeping a safe distance.

我和 Tindley Summit 校长 David McGuire 站在一起，他几个月来一直在计划这一刻，希望在半小时内让 200 多名孩子下车，进入正确的教室，同时保持安全距离。

But Mr. McGuire is one of the most optimistic people I've ever interviewed.

但麦奎尔先生是我采访过的最乐观的人之一。

He doesn't like to worry or even use the word "worry." At one point when we're talking, he calls it the W word.

他不喜欢担心，甚至不喜欢使用“担心”这个词。有一次我们谈话时，他称之为 W 词。

I feel confident with our plan.

我对我们的计划充满信心。

And again, maybe day one we see how the plan goes.

再说一遍，也许第一天我们就会看到计划的进展情况。

But I feel confident with the plan we have in place.

但我对我们制定的计划充满信心。

Though he does admit to being a little W worded about the fact that they can't let parents into the building anymore and is concerned they'll get upset when they can't walk their little kids in.

尽管他承认，对于他们不能再让父母进入大楼这一事实，他的措辞有点W，并且担心当他们不能带孩子进去时，他们会感到不安。

And as we're standing there, we watch how a mom named Pam Lee navigates that new reality.

当我们站在那里时，我们看到一位名叫帕姆·李的妈妈如何应对这个新现实。

She's walking her sixth grader Nysia and kindergartner Ny'asia up to the door.

她正带着六年级学生 Nysia 和幼儿园学生 Ny'asia 走到门口。

It's Ny'asia's first in-person day of kindergarten.

这是 Ny'asia 幼儿园的第一天。

Ny'asia.

尼亚亚。

Ny'asia, you're going to be a big kindergartener, all right?

Ny'asia，你要成为一名大幼儿园小朋友了，好吗？

She's a big girl now.

她现在已经是个大女孩了。

Pam Lee All right.

帕姆·李 好吧。

You're going to be good for Ms. Johnson, all right?

你会为约翰逊女士做好事，好吗？

All right, I will see you ladies later.

好的，女士们稍后见。

Just come in.

进来吧。

Stephanie Wang Just come in, Ny'asia pleads with her mom.

Stephanie Wang 刚进来，Ny'asia 就向她妈妈恳求。

I can't come in.

我不能进来。

I can't come in.

我不能进来。

Love you.

爱你。

Be a good girl, OK?

做一个好女孩，好吗？

As soon as she walks in the door, Ny'asia turns around.

一进门，妮亚西亚就转过身来。

And she's just tall enough to peek out the bottom corner of the window in the door.

而且她的身高刚好可以从门窗的底角往外看。

She smiles big and waves to her mom.

她微笑着向妈妈挥手。

[LAUGHS] Stephanie Wang Oh, her little face in the window, waving.

[笑]斯蒂芬妮·王哦，她的小脸在窗外挥手。

Other parents also follow the new rules, and drop-off goes without a hitch.

其他家长也遵守新规则，接送也很顺利。

The kids settle into their classrooms pretty quickly.

孩子们很快就融入了教室。

All that planning is paying off.

所有这些计划都得到了回报。

Mr. McGuire and I speed walk through the school, and we see kids patiently waiting to use the bathroom, where they're only allowed to use every other stall to maintain space.

麦奎尔先生和我快速穿过学校，我们看到孩子们耐心地等待使用卫生间，但他们只能使用其他隔间来保持空间。

He points out a sixth grade class reading The Outsiders at their desks that have shields set up on them, like little cubicles.

他指出，一个六年级的班级在课桌上阅读《局外人》，课桌上设置了防护罩，就像小隔间一样。

The kids don't even fuss that much about wearing their masks.

孩子们甚至不太担心戴口罩。

When I sat down to the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house--

当我坐在电影院黑暗中明亮的阳光下时——

It seems like a smooth start to being back in school, except for one thing.

回到学校似乎是一个顺利的开始，除了一件事。

As we pass by a second grade classroom, we both notice that there's only a single kid in it.

当我们经过二年级的教室时，我们都注意到里面只有一个孩子。

Mr. McGuire kind of breezes by, continuing to walk and point out other classrooms.

麦奎尔先生轻快地走过，继续走着，指着其他教室。

But I stop and make him come back.

但我停下来让他回来。

The second grader is sitting in the middle of the room, looking lonely and small behind rows of cubicle desks.

二年级学生坐在教室中央，在一排排的小隔间桌子后面显得孤独而渺小。

Just one?

只有一个吗？

David McGuire Huh?

大卫·麦奎尔 嗯？

Two first graders-- these two are first graders.

两个一年级生——这两个是一年级生。

Oh.

哦。

No, but she's just got one second grader?

不，但她只有一个二年级学生？

Yeah, second grader.

是的，二年级学生。

Yeah, so, again, that--

是的，所以，再说一遍——

We continue down the hall.

我们继续沿着大厅走。

Other classrooms also have way too many empty desks.

其他教室也有太多的空桌子。

On the first day back, a lot of kids are missing.

回来的第一天，很多孩子失踪了。

226 kids were supposed to show up for school today.

今天应该有 226 名孩子到校。

Another 45 signed up to stay virtual.

另外 45 人注册保持虚拟状态。

Just after 9:00 AM, David and the two assistant principals get the actual attendance number from the school counselor in the hallway.

上午 9:00 刚过，David 和两位副校长从走廊里的学校辅导员那里得到了实际的出勤人数。

How many?

多少？

Counselor 102, not including the three that's online so far.

102 号辅导员，不包括目前在线的 3 名。

Which makes 105 students out of 226.

这使得 226 名学生中有 105 名。

Just three days before this on Friday, most of those students were in class virtually.

就在三天前的周五，大多数学生都在虚拟课堂上。

Now over a hundred of them had disappeared.

现在一百多人已经消失了。

Mr. McGuire talked to one of his assistant principals about what happened.

麦奎尔先生向他的一位助理校长讲述了所发生的事情。

I said, did we miss something this summer?

我说，这个夏天我们是不是错过了什么？

She said, what do you mean?

她说，你什么意思？

I said, did we miss something?

我说，我们是不是错过了什么？

Why are there so many kids missing?

为什么有这么多孩子失踪？

And she was like, I don't know.

她说，我不知道。

We got to find them.

我们必须找到他们。

We just got to find out.

我们只需要找出答案。

And I was just like, yeah.

我当时就想，是的。

But I said, we communicated, right?

但我说，我们沟通过吧？

We had it on the website.

我们在网站上有它。

We put it on our social media.

我们把它放在社交媒体上。

We sent ClassDojo.

我们发送了ClassDojo。

We used the parablast, right?

我们用的是parablast，对吗？

We did mailers.

我们做了邮寄。

We did those things, right?

我们做了那些事，对吗？

Those things weren't enough.

这些东西还不够。

Mr. McGuire, the dean, the school counselor, the office manager, and a few teachers start calling parents, trying to figure out why their children didn't show up.

麦奎尔先生、院长、学校辅导员、办公室经理和几位老师开始给家长打电话，试图找出孩子没有出现的原因。

I tried to figure it out too.

我也试图弄清楚。

I talked to several parents whose kids were not in school that first day, including Kierra Leonard.

我与几位孩子第一天没有上学的家长进行了交谈，其中包括基拉·伦纳德 (Kierra Leonard)。

The reason she didn't take her kids in?

她不带孩子来的原因是什么？

I just wanted to make sure that there were going to be no cases.

我只是想确保不会出现任何病例。

Kierra actually really wanted to send her two children back to school.

基拉实际上真的很想送她的两个孩子重返学校。

Things were getting kind of wild at home.

家里的事情变得有点疯狂。

Her seven-year-old daughter was sneaking out of bed and staying up all night.

她七岁的女儿偷偷从床上爬起来，彻夜未眠。

And she's up snacking and eating whatever she can find.

她开始吃零食，吃她能找到的任何东西。

She didn't go to sleep until the sun was coming up.

直到太阳升起，她才入睡。

She has a kitchen set in her room.

她的房间里有一个厨房。

I open the freezer, and there are the sprinkles to the cupcakes.

我打开冰箱，纸杯蛋糕上撒满了糖粉。

What are you doing?

你在干什么？

Icing in the oven-- what are you doing?

烤箱里结冰——你在做什么？

I couldn't wait.

我等不及了。

That's why I was so for them going to school, because it was just like the schedule was broke.

这就是为什么我如此支持他们去上学，因为就像日程安排被打破了一样。

It was like they were just doing whatever they wanted to do.

就好像他们只是在做他们想做的事。

They needed to get back on a normal routine.

他们需要恢复正常生活。

At first, Kierra thought it seemed OK to send her kids to school.

起初，基拉认为送孩子上学似乎没问题。

She went to a school orientation and thought the precautions seemed pretty sensible, like the desk shields and separate supplies for each student.

她参加了学校迎新活动，认为预防措施似乎相当明智，比如为每个学生提供桌罩和单独的用品。

But then--

但接下来——

After I went home from orientation, I went to get the kids from my mom.

迎新活动回家后，我去妈妈那里接孩子们。

And that's when I explained to her what they had in place.

就在那时我向她解释了他们的情况。

And she just wasn't too sure about it, like, nuh-uh, not my grandbabies.

她只是对此不太确定，就像，呃，不是我的孙子们。

[LAUGHTER] I mean, she sits up and watches the news all day, so you can just imagine what's going through her head.

[笑声]我的意思是，她整天坐着看新闻，所以你可以想象她脑子里在想什么。

And she's like, nuh-uh.

她就像，嗯嗯。

Because she has to pick them up from school.

因为她必须去学校接他们。

They're with her after school.

放学后他们和她在一起。

So, I mean, I couldn't argue with her not wanted to be playing Russian roulette with COVID.

所以，我的意思是，我无法与她争论，因为她不想和新冠病毒一起玩俄罗斯轮盘赌。

So that's when I started questioning it.

所以从那时起我开始质疑它。

And I was like, well, let's just see how it goes the first day, see if we hear anything.

我当时想，好吧，让我们看看第一天进展如何，看看我们是否听到了什么。

So after the first two weeks of virtual learning, Kierra kept her kids at home instead of sending them into school for the first day back in person.

因此，在虚拟学习的前两周后，基拉让她的孩子们呆在家里，而不是在第一天亲自送他们去学校。

I was torn.

我很伤心。

I knew they needed to be in class.

我知道他们需要上课。

It would help them more.

这会对他们有更多帮助。

But I wasn't sure if I wanted them to be with the first wave of kids that went back.

但我不确定我是否希望他们和第一批回去的孩子在一起。

She thought they could keep doing virtual learning, but then they couldn't get into the online classroom.

她以为他们可以继续进行虚拟学习，但后来他们无法进入在线课堂。

When the school called to check where the kids were, she explained why she didn't send them in.

当学校打电话询问孩子们在哪里时，她解释了为什么不送他们进来。

They reassured her that things were going well so far, and they asked if there was anything they could do to help get the kids into school.

他们向她保证，到目前为止一切进展顺利，并询问是否可以做些什么来帮助孩子们上学。

When she told them it was hard to pick them up on Fridays, they said that was fine.

当她告诉他们周五很难接他们时，他们说没关系。

They could keep the kids an extra half hour until their grandma got off work.

他们可以让孩子们多呆半个小时，直到他们的奶奶下班。

This, plus the fact that there were no COVID cases those first few days, won over both Kierra and her mother.

这一点，再加上最初几天没有出现新冠病例，赢得了基拉和她母亲的支持。

And I guess she just seen how much they were willing to work with us.

我想她只是看到了他们有多么愿意与我们合作。

And she knows as well that they need to be in school.

她也知道他们需要上学。

The school was doing tons of calls like these, including to another mother, Jamela Williams, who also kept her son Tre home that first day.

学校接到了大量这样的电话，其中包括另一位母亲贾梅拉·威廉姆斯(Jamela Williams)，她第一天也把儿子特雷留在家里。

She had a lot of worries that would have seemed small, but suddenly seemed big.

她有很多的烦恼，原本看起来很小，但突然间却显得很大。

I spoke to more than one person.

我和不止一个人交谈过。

I spoke to three or four people, actually.

事实上，我和三四个人谈过。

So what were the types of things you wanted to know from them?

那么您想从他们那里了解哪些类型的信息？

I wanted to know more about bathroom breaks, because I know they go in groups.

我想了解更多关于上厕所的信息，因为我知道他们是成群结队的。

And I know some kids don't wash their hands.

我知道有些孩子不洗手。

I know my child sometimes doesn't wash his hands.

我知道我的孩子有时不洗手。

So I was wondering, how would they take care of that sort of thing?

所以我想知道他们会如何处理这种事情？

And they told me that there would be frequent restroom breaks.

他们告诉我，会经常上厕所。

The restrooms are cleaned.

卫生间都打扫干净了。

And I think it's after every section of kids go they thoroughly clean it.

我认为孩子们走完每个区域后，他们都会彻底清洁它。

So that made me feel very good.

这让我感觉非常好。

She also worried about her seven-year-old feeling comfortable and safe in a classroom with plastic shields on the desks and everyone in face masks.

她还担心她七岁的孩子在教室里感觉舒适和安全，教室里的桌子上有塑料防护罩，每个人都戴着口罩。

Well, I didn't want them to be scared.

好吧，我不想让他们害怕。

And they reassured me.

他们让我放心。

And I've seen pictures, and it looked fine to me.

我看过照片，对我来说看起来不错。

She was touched that so many people-- Tre's teacher, the school counselor, and Mr. McGuire-- were willing to talk through her concerns.

她很感动，有这么多人——特雷的老师、学校辅导员和麦奎尔先生——愿意谈论她的担忧。

Even the tone of their voices, that they were confident and jovial, signaled to her that they felt good about reopening.

就连他们自信而愉快的语气也向她表明，他们对重新开业感觉很好。

So maybe she didn't have as much to be worried about.

所以，或许她根本不用担心太多。

It's a stunning amount of extra work for the school, convincing parents one by one for their kids to attend the school they're already enrolled in, but this is what it took in so many cases.

对于学校来说，要一一说服家长让他们的孩子去他们已经就读的学校，这是一项令人震惊的额外工作，但这就是在很多情况下所需要的。

By the end of that first week, the school tracked down all but three of the missing students.

到第一周结束时，学校已经找到了除三名失踪学生之外的所有学生。

They convinced around 70 more kids to come in person, and another 40 or so decided to stay online.

他们说服了大约 70 名孩子亲自前来，另外 40 名左右的孩子决定继续上网。

Jamela's son Tre went back to school that Tuesday.

贾梅拉的儿子特雷于周二重返学校。

Kierra, the mom who had to convince her mother, she sent her kids on Thursday.

基拉（Kierra）是一位必须说服她母亲的妈妈，她在周四送了她的孩子们去。

I just feel like you are having to make this decision that so many parents across the country are having to deal with right now.

我只是觉得你必须做出这个决定，全国各地的许多父母现在都必须面对这个决定。

Yes.

是的。

I was hoping that the other parents would make the decision for me so that I can ride their coattail, see how it was working for them and then see if it would work for us.

我希望其他家长能为我做出决定，这样我就可以搭他们的顺风车，看看这对他们有什么作用，然后看看这对我们是否也有用。

So, I mean, if it has to be the other way around, so be it.

所以，我的意思是，如果必须相反，那就这样吧。

Everything's fine-- no cases, no sick children, no problems-- but still just week two, week one for us.

一切都很好——没有病例，没有生病的孩子，没有问题——但对我们来说仍然只是第二周、第一周。

This difficult decision of how kids should return to school in so many places has played out like this.

在很多地方，孩子们如何重返学校的艰难决定就是这样发生的。

The federal government left it to the states, the states left it to the schools, and the schools left it to the parents.

联邦政府把它留给各州，各州把它留给学校，学校把它留给家长。

And how are the parents supposed to know what the right answer is to any of this?

父母应该如何知道这些问题的正确答案是什么？

No wonder it played out the way it did at Tindley.

难怪事情会像廷德利那样发生。

Stephanie Wang, she's the bureau chief of Chalk Beat Indiana.

斯蒂芬妮·王，Chalk Beat Indiana 分社社长。

To read their education coverage from around the country, go to chalkbeat.org.

要阅读他们在全国各地的教育报道，请访问 chalkbeat.org。

Act Five, The Leftovers.

第五幕，剩菜。

Of course, the big fear at every school right now is that they're going to start up classes in person in the fall and then the virus will arrive and spread through the student and teacher population, endangering everybody, and, of course, forcing them to shut down again, go back to mostly virtual learning.

当然，现在每所学校最大的担忧是，他们将在秋季亲自开课，然后病毒会到达并在学生和教师群体中传播，危及每个人，当然，也会迫使他们再次关闭，回到以虚拟学习为主的状态。

That happened at the University of North Carolina this month.

这件事本月发生在北卡罗来纳大学。

Exactly one week after classes began, with 177 confirmed cases at the time, the school ended in-person undergraduate instruction and told students to start moving out of the residence halls and go home.

开课一周后，当时确诊病例已达 177 例，学校结束了本科生现场教学，并要求学生开始搬出宿舍回家。

Kids have taken a while to clear out.

孩子们花了一段时间才清理干净。

And as they have, clusters of coronavirus cases keep popping up around campus in dorms, and fraternities, and a sorority house.

事实上，校园周围的宿舍、兄弟会和联谊会不断出现聚集性冠状病毒病例。

NPR staffers Lauren Migaki and Elissa Nadworny were on UNC's campus last Saturday and happened to be at the school paper, The Daily Tar Heel, when one of the paper's editors, Brandon Standley, got a text about the latest cluster, the school's eighth at that point, before the school announced it.

NPR 工作人员 Lauren Migaki 和 Elissa Nadworny 上周六在北卡罗来纳大学校园，碰巧在学校报纸《焦油脚跟日报》上，当时该报的编辑布兰登·斯坦德利 (Brandon Standley) 在学校宣布这一消息之前收到了一篇有关最新集群的文字，这是该校当时的第八个集群。

It was in the dorm called Craige.

那是在一个叫Craige的宿舍里。

Oh, man.

哦，伙计。

Craige just reported that it's about to have a cluster.

克雷格刚刚报道说它即将形成一个集群。

So we got notification from a housing employee.

所以我们收到了一名住房工作人员的通知。

I think that's all the high-rises and most of the first-year residence halls.

我想那是所有的高层建筑和大部分一年级宿舍楼。

Craige is where I live.

克雷奇是我住的地方。

So that's really not exciting to know via a text message.

因此，通过短信得知这一点并不令人兴奋。

This is not good.

这不好。

That was this past Saturday.

那是上个星期六。

One of our producers Robyn Semien called Brandon four days later to see what happened.

四天后，我们的一位制片人罗宾·塞米恩 (Robyn Semien) 给布兰登打电话，询问发生了什么事。

After Brandon heard his dorm, Craige, had a cluster, his mom called, who wanted him to leave school.

布兰登听说他的宿舍克雷奇感染了流感后，他妈妈打电话给他，希望他离开学校。

He said, no, Mom.

他说，不，妈妈。

Then he and some of his friends started texting on a group chat.

然后他和他的一些朋友开始在群聊中发短信。

One of my coworkers said "what" in all caps.

我的一位同事说“什么”全部大写。

One of them said [BLEEP] me.

其中一个对我说[哔]。

One of them said, what if we've come into contact with those people?

其中一人说，万一我们接触到了那些人怎么办？

And they're going home and would potentially spread it to their communities.

他们正在回家，并有可能将其传播到他们的社区。

One of them called us cluster Craige.

其中之一称我们为克雷格集群。

One of them was scared about getting tested.

其中一人害怕接受检测。

So she said, if you see me having a panic attack getting tested, no, you didn't.

所以她说，如果你看到我接受测试时惊恐发作，不，你没有。

I talked about how I was scared to get the COVID test too.

我谈到了我也害怕接受新冠病毒检测。

I said, if you see me crying because that COVID test poked my brain, no, you didn't.

我说，如果你看到我因为新冠病毒检测刺激了我的大脑而哭泣，不，你没有。

Ultimately, in the evening, he went back to his dorm.

最终，傍晚时分，他回到了宿舍。

And the parking lot outside the building was just completely full.

而大楼外的停车场也已经满了。

And there was families moving out.

还有一些家庭搬走了。

There were students moving all their stuff.

有学生在搬运他们所有的东西。

It was a lot of people in one tiny, little area.

这是一个很小很小的区域里有很多人。

And they were walking up and down the breezeway with fridges, and boxes, and things like that.

他们带着冰箱、盒子和类似的东西在过道上走来走去。

And I had to walk straight into that, because it's really the clearest entrance to get to the building.

我必须直接走进去，因为它确实是进入大楼最清晰的入口。

So I had to walk straight through that and straight into the main area where people were taking the elevators up and down.

所以我必须直接穿过那里，直接进入人们乘电梯上下的主要区域。

It sounds pretty crowded.

听起来很拥挤。

Brandon Standley I would say it was.

布兰登·斯坦德利 我想说是的。

I felt nervous.

我感到紧张。

He beelined to his room on the third floor, talked to nobody.

他直奔三楼自己的房间，没有和任何人说话。

By Sunday, all four of his suitemates had left.

到周日，他的四个室友都离开了。

Brandon does not want to leave.

布兰登不想离开。

UNC has said basically, we know we invited you back, but please leave.

北卡罗来纳大学基本上说，我们知道我们邀请你回来，但请离开。

Brandon is technically allowed to stay.

从技术上讲，布兰登可以留下来。

He's paid to manage the dorm RAs, resident assistants, who clearly have fewer and fewer residents to assist.

他的任务是管理宿舍 RA，即住宿助理，显然需要帮助的住宿生越来越少。

Brandon has a bathroom to himself now.

布兰登现在拥有一间属于自己的浴室。

It's kind of nice.

这有点不错。

Yeah, I'm hoping to stay, and I'm hoping to keep my job because this is my livelihood right now.

是的，我希望留下来，我希望保住我的工作，因为这是我现在的生计。

This is how I make ends meet.

这就是我维持收支平衡的方式。

This is how I put gas in my car and how I feed myself.

这就是我给车加油和吃饭的方式。

And I'm really hoping that that doesn't disappear.

我真的希望这种情况不会消失。

As of now, Brandon and the 15 remaining RAs can stay, but he sees the problem.

截至目前，Brandon 和剩下的 15 名 RA 可以留下来，但他看到了问题所在。

If the resident count gets too low, the university will terminate them and kick them out.

如果居民人数太少，大学将解雇他们并将他们驱逐出去。

So Craige, a big, fairly empty dorm meant for about 650 people, a six-story building shaped like an X with an A, B, C, and D wing, lounges, and an elevator tower in the center, Brandon estimated on Wednesday there may be 90 residents left.

克雷格宿舍是一栋可容纳约 650 人的宽敞且相当空旷的宿舍，是一栋 X 型六层建筑，有 A、B、C 和 D 翼楼、休息室和中心的电梯塔，布兰登周三估计可能还剩下 90 名居民。

I talked to Brandon in his dorm room.

我在布兰登的宿舍里和他交谈过。

At a certain point, I ask him to please just walk into the hall for me.

在某个时刻，我请他帮我走进大厅。

Give me one second.

给我一秒钟。

Robyn Semien OK.

罗宾·塞米恩 好的。

I'm so curious if there's people out there.

我很好奇那里有没有人。

And a mask.

还有一个面具。

Brandon Standley And a mask.

布兰登·斯坦德利和一个面具。

All right.

好的。

Here we go.

开始了。

[DOOR SHUTTING] All the hallways are outdoors, breezeways.

[关门]所有走廊都在室外，有通风道。

But looking out, I can see up to the sixth floor and down to the ground.

但往外看，我能看到六楼，也能看到地面。

There's literally nobody in the breezeway, not a single person on the volleyball court.

走廊上几乎没有人，排球场上也没有一个人。

I thought I just heard a door open, but maybe I'm crazy.

我以为我刚刚听到开门声，但也许我疯了。

What about the lounge?

休息室怎么样？

Are you close to the lounge?

你离休息室近吗？

OK, let's go see.

好，我们去看看。

Brandon Standley Nobody.

布兰登·斯坦德利 没人。

It sounds so quiet.

听起来那么安静。

It is quiet there.

那里很安静。

The light is on.

灯亮了。

There is not a single person here.

这里一个人也没有。

I'm walking into the basketball side now.

我现在正走进篮球场。

OK.

好的。

Brandon Standley Oh, there's a person.

布兰登·斯坦德利 哦，有一个人。

Oh.

哦。

Brandon Standley There's actually a person.

布兰登·斯坦德利：确实有一个人。

A student who was late and can't talk, one student.

一个迟到不能说话的学生，一个学生。

I'm looking out now at the basketball side, doing the same thing that I was doing on the volleyball side.

我现在正在关注篮球方面，做着我在排球方面所做的同样的事情。

And I can see up to the sixth floor and down to the ground.

我可以看到六楼和地下。

And there's not a single person.

而且一个人也没有。

Doesn't even look like the light is on in any of the rooms.

甚至看起来所有房间都没有开灯。

And there's kind of just nobody.

而且几乎没有人。

He goes to the kitchen-- nobody.

他去了厨房——没有人。

Does the entire fourth floor, too.

整个四楼也一样。

Nobody.

没有人。

In August, just before the school went online, The Daily Tar Heel ran a piece with the frustrated headline, "We All Saw This Coming." But not Brandon.

八月份，就在学校上线之前，《焦油脚跟日报》刊登了一篇文章，标题令人沮丧：“我们都看到了这一点。”但布兰登不是。

He wasn't as skeptical of UNC's reopening plan.

他对北卡罗来纳大学的重新开放计划并不持怀疑态度。

And I thought that if there was an outbreak on campus that the university would lock down the buildings, lock down the campus, force everyone to quarantine.

我想如果校园里爆发疫情，大学会封锁大楼，封锁校园，强制所有人隔离。

It's kind of like a snowstorm.

这有点像暴风雪。

I just thought it was going to be just like that.

我只是以为事情就会如此。

It was going to be like two weeks worth of a snow day for everybody.

对于每个人来说，这将是两周的雪天。

And we were all going to be sick, and it was going to suck, but it was going to be OK enough, you know what I mean?

我们都会生病，这会很糟糕，但一切都会好起来的，你知道我的意思吗？

You really had confidence in their plan.

你对他们的计划确实有信心。

I did.

我做到了。

Robyn Semien Two weeks of quarantine, that was Brandon's backup plan for the university.

罗宾·塞米恩（Robyn Semien） 两周的隔离，这是布兰登为大学制定的备用计划。

The university had no such backup plan for Brandon.

大学没有为布兰登提供这样的后备计划。

They don't.

他们不这样做。

I was stunned.

我惊呆了。

I was shocked.

我很震惊。

I was like, are you serious?

我当时想，你是认真的吗？

What was the point of touting the safety plans that you had in place if you had any sort of inkling that if there's an outbreak that you're going to send people home?

如果你有任何预感，如果疫情爆发你要把人们送回家，那么宣传你制定的安全计划还有什么意义呢？

I would love to be in the room where that happened and sit down and listen to them say, well, if there's 300 cases, we're just going to send everybody home.

我很想在发生这种情况的房间里坐下来听他们说，如果有 300 例病例，我们就会让所有人回家。

Because that's what they ended up doing, is there was a little over 300 cases reported within a week and a half, two weeks, and they sent everyone home.

因为这就是他们最终所做的，一周半、两周内报告了 300 多例病例，然后他们把所有人都送回家了。

UNC did a survey over the summer, asking students if they'd go to parties this year.

北卡罗来纳大学在今年夏天进行了一项调查，询问学生今年是否会参加聚会。

Over a quarter said yes.

超过四分之一的人说是。

Maybe that's the only thing the university needed to know.

也许这是大学唯一需要知道的事情。

Robyn Semien is one of the producers of our show.

罗宾·塞米恩 (Robyn Semien) 是我们节目的制片人之一。

Our program was produced today by Emanuele Berry and Diane Wu.

今天我们的节目由 Emanuele Berry 和 Diane Wu 制作。

The people put together today's show include Bim Adewunmi, Elna Baker, Dana Chivvis, Aviva DeKornfeld, Noor Gill, Damien Graef, Michelle Harris, Seth Lind, Miki Meek, Lina Misitzis, Stowe Nelson, Katherine Mae Mondo, Nadia Reiman, Robyn Semien, Lilly Sullivan, Christopher Swetala, Matt Tierney, and Julie Whitaker.

今天节目的制作人包括 Bim Adewunmi、Elna Baker、Dana Chivvis、Aviva DeKornfeld、Noor Gill、Damien Graef、Michelle Harris、Seth Lind、Miki Meek、Lina Misitzis、Stowe Nelson、Katherine Mae Mondo、Nadia Reiman、Robyn Semien、Lilly Sullivan、Christopher Swetala、Matt Tierney 和 Julie Whitaker。

Our managing editor is Sarah Abdurrahman.

我们的总编辑是萨拉·阿卜杜拉赫曼 (Sarah Abdurrahman)。

Executive editor is David Kestenbaum.

执行编辑是大卫·凯斯滕鲍姆。

Special thanks today to Cheryl Cofie, Ricky Allman, Andrea Mitchell, Sally Goza, Peggy Fletcher Stack, Patrick Wall, Joicki Floyd, Lisa Pollak, Vincent Kolb-Lugo, John Rabe, Karen Soto, Carrie and George Frieswyk, Lisa Nhan, Doyin Oyeniyi, Andy Kenney, America Billy, Elizabeth Friary, WFYI in Indianapolis.

今天特别感谢 Cheryl Cofie、Ricky Allman、Andrea Mitchell、Sally Goza、Peggy Fletcher Stack、Patrick Wall、Joicki Floyd、Lisa Pollak、Vincent Kolb-Lugo、John Rabe、Karen Soto、Carrie 和 George Frieswyk、Lisa Nhan、Doyin Oyeniyi、Andy Kenney、America Billy、Elizabeth Friary、印第安纳波利斯的 WFYI。

And thanks to the many, many students, parents, and educators we called as we put together today's show.

感谢我们在筹备今天的节目时致电的许许多多的学生、家长和教育工作者。

This American Life is delivered to public radio stations by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.

《美国生活》由公共广播电台 PRX 向公共广播电台播出。

Our website, thisamericanlife.org, where you can listen to any of our over 700 programs for absolutely free.

我们的网站 thisamericanlife.org，您可以在其中完全免费收听我们 700 多个节目中的任何一个。

Thanks as always to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia.

一如既往地感谢我们计划的联合创始人 Torey Malatia 先生。

You know, he has really been cracking himself up all this week with this prank he came up with.

你知道，这周他真的一直在用他想出的这个恶作剧来搞笑。

Every single time I sit down in the studio to record anything, he swings the door open and yells--

每次我坐在录音室录制任何东西时，他都会打开门并大喊——

Hey!

嘿！

Sh.

什。

Ira Glass I'm Ira Glass, back next week with more stories of This American Life.

艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass） 我是艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass），下周回来，带来更多《美国生活》的故事。

This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.

《This American Life》与 WBEZ Chicago 合作制作，并由 PRX 公共广播电台传送到各电台。