Next we’re going to look at a novel way to address a problem that plaguesvirtually every school district in the country: truancy. Every day hundreds of thousands of American kids fail to show up for school, not because they’re sick. They have no excuse. They just don’t show up. We have a story of a crackdown on repeated school absence in Texas. Here’s Pierre Thomas.
In Midland, Texas, if you habitually miss class, you’ll see more than the principal. You’ll end up here, before Judge David Cobos. “I’m itching to put you in jail.” Cobos is known as one of the toughest, most creative judges in Texas. “Using your poor grandmother and her illness is a bunch of crap." "You hadn’t been to school all year.” He fines students and requires them, not their parents, to pay. “You have $585? You want to pay me right now?”
Fifteen year old Brandon Ormsby has been skipping school and using drugs. His mother is desperate. “He doesn’t care. It’s like it’s no big deal to him.” The judge is fed up. “You don’t care about yourself, your parent, your siblings. So what’s it going to take to get your attention? We’re going to put up a GPS monitor on him today, and that’s going to keep him at home and at school. He can’t go anywhere else.”
“It’s very compact, very durable. You can shower in it. You can, you know, take a bath.” The ankle monitor tells the court where the students are at all times. “Try to sneak out of the house or something tonight, I’m going to know right away.” Cobos was the first in the state to use the GPS on truants. In the last year, he’s placed the electronic leash on 20 teenagers, at a cost to the county of $10,000 annually. It’s acting as a dramatic deterrent.
It’s helping Joey Salazar. “I’m doing better.” What changed? “As… ankle monitor keeps me at school, keeps me at home.” But despite the successes, groups like the ACLU believe the tactic is wholesale invasion of privacy. “Get to school, man.” Are the measures too tough? “You know, what if it was your child? It’s kind of personal to me. You know, I want to do everything humanly possible.”
If children are missing school because they are poor, Cobos raises private funds to pay for food and clothing. The efforts appear to be paying off. School attendance is up 5% this year. The juveniledetention rate has been cut in half. “I want you to go to school.” Pierre Thomas, Midland, Texas.
※ end up : ~ 로 끝이 나다.(= wind up ), 결국 ~ 되다 1. 결국 마지막에는 (…이 ) 되다 (as…). ex. She had always wanted to be a writer but ended up as a teacher. 2. 마지막에는 ( …에) 살게 되다 (in … ). ex. He ended up in jail. 그는 마지막에는 교도소 신세를 지게 되었다. 3. 결국 …하게) 되다 (doing). ex. I tried to save money but ended up buying more than I could afford. 결국은 형편에 맞지 않는 많은 물건을 사고 말았다. 4. ~ 로 끝나다 (with). ex. But you'll end up with no friends even to jog with. cf. After a poker game, I always end up broke. 포커를 한 후에는 늘 빈털터리가 되어 버린다
※ Deal * cut/make/reach/strike a deal (with someone): 거래를 맺다, 계약을 맺다 ex. We've cut a deal with Germany on wine imports. * a deal goes through (=happens as arranged): 거래가 성사되다, 계약이 성사되다 ex. We're 99% certain the deal will go through. * a deal falls through (=does not happen as arranged) ex. He nearly got the job but then the deal fell through. * get a good deal (on something) : get it at a low price ex. I got a really good deal on my new computer. ex. I've got a really good deal living at Sophie's house. * it's no big deal: 대단한 일이 아니다 ex. It's no big deal if you can't pay me back right now. (= It's O.K.) * make a big deal (out) of something : 호들갑 떨다 (=behave as if it is very important) ex. I know he's done well in his exams, but I don't see why he has to make such a big deal out of it! * big deal : used for showing that you do not think that something is very good or impressive: ex. So she's got a part in the school play? Big deal! * it's a deal : 좋았어. 대찬성이야 /used for saying that you agree to something * It's no deal! 그건 찬성할 수 없어요 ex. A: If you baby-sit my daughter for two hours, I'll give you a movie ticket. B: It's a deal. 좋았어 * a good/better/fair deal (for someone) : 좋은 / 나은 / 공정한 대우 ex. They are demanding a fair deal for nurses. * get a rough/raw deal (=be treated unfairly): ex. Disabled people had a raw deal under the past government.
※ personal * a personal history 경력, 이력 * personal abuse 인신 공격(= personal attack) * personal reasons 개인적인 이유 ex. She quit her job for personal reasons. 개인 사유로 일을 그만두었다. * personal problems 개인 신상에 관한 문제 (=ones concerning your relationships or health): He's had a few personal problems recently. * personal estate 동산 (=personal property ) (real estate 부동산) * get personal : (= become personal)/ to start being deliberately unkind or insulting ex. Let's not get personal about this. 이 문제에 대해 인신공격을 하지 말자. ex. It wasn't personal, so don't be offended. 개인적인 감정이 실린 건 아니니까 기분 상하지 마세요. ex. I´m afraid you´re getting too personal. 남의 사생활에 너무 간섭하는 것 같은데요.
novel : 새로운, 색다른 / new or unusual ex. a novel solution to a problem address : (문제 따위를 해결하기 위해) 역점 을 두고 다루다 / to deal with a problem or question, for example by thinking carefully about it, or by doing things to improve a situation ex. Governments have been slow to address the problem of global warming. ex. A number of issues are being addressed. plague : 역병, 전염병, (보통 the ∼) 페스트, (보통 a ∼) [구어] 두통거리, 성가신 사람[것], ~ 을 (계속) 괴롭히다, ~ 을 성 가시게 하다, 전염병에 걸리게 하다 ex. plague a person with questions 남에게 질문을 퍼붓다. ex. The east coast has been plagued by blizzards for most of this month. virtually : 사실상, 거의 * virtual : 사실상의, 실질상의, 가상의 ex. The company had created a virtual monopoly. * virtual reality 가상현실 school district : 학구(學區), 학군 truancy : 무단 결석 show up : 나타나다 crackdown : 탄압, 진압, 단속 * crack : 우지직, 갑작스런 날카로운 소리, (도자기·유리 그릇의) 금, 깨진 틈, 갑자기 날카로운 소리를 내며 깨지다[찢어지다, 부러지다, 금 이 가다] ~을 딱 소리를 내며 깨다[부수다, 으깨다], <사건·암 호 등을> 풀다, 해독하다 * crack down (on~ ) : (~을) 엄하게 다스리다, 탄압하다, 단속하다, 진압하 다 habitual : 습관적인, 버릇이 된, 상습적인 end up : ~ 로 끝이 나다.(= wind up ), 결국 ~ 되다 [메 모 참고] itch : 가려움, 참을 수 없는 욕망, 갈망, 가렵 다, 근질근질하다, [대개 진행형으로] (하고 싶어) 못 견디다 (for) * have/get the itch to do something: ex. I still get the itch to pack a bag and just drive off. * be itching for something/to do something : ex. The boy is itching for a fight. 그 소년은 싸움이 하고 싶어서 못 견딘다. * itching 가려움, 근질근질함 , (…에 대한) 열망 , 갈망 [for], 가려운 , 하 고 싶어 [탐나서] 못 견디는 a bunch of : a large number or amount of~ ex. I have a bunch of stuff I have to do before lunch. * bunch : (포도 등의) 송이, (꽃 등의) 다발, 묶음, 한패(group), 떼거리, 다 발로 묶다 crap : 똥(shit), 용변, 배변, 허튼소리(nonsense) ex. Cut the crap! 허튼소리 마라, 그만 둬 ex. talk crap 헛튼소리하다 desperate : 자포자기의, 필사적인, 절실한 ex. I was desperate for a glass of water. 물 한 잔이 절실했다. 물 한 잔 마시고 싶어서 죽을 지경이었다. be fed up (with~) : (~에) 진저리나다, (~에) 싫증나다, 물리다 sibling : 형제, 자매 durable : 내구성있는, 오래 견디는, 튼튼한, [pl.] 내구재(durables = durable goods) sneak : 살금살금 들어오다[나가다](in, out), 살짝 달아나다(away), 남몰래 빠져 나감, 슬쩍 넣다[집다] ex. sneak into[out of] a room 살짝 방에 들어오다[방에서 나가다] ex. sneak up 몰래 다가가다 ex. Let's sneak some pizza into the cinema. truant : (학교의) 무단 결석자 leash : (개 등을 매어두는) 가죽끈[줄], 사슬, 속박, 구속 * a short/tight leash : under strict control ex. Her parents keep her on quite a short leash. * unleash ~의 가죽끈을 끄르다[풀다], ~의 속박을 풀다 deterrent : 억제시키는, (전쟁) 억지력 / something that makes people decide not to do something by making them realize that something unpleasant could happen to them * deterrent to: ex. Fear of being caught acts as a deterrent to breaking the law. ACLU : 미국 자유 인권 협회 (American Civil Liberties Union) tactic : (= tactics) 전술, 책 략, 술책 * tactical : 전술적인, 전술상의 / ex. tactical nuclear weapons 전술핵무기 wholesale : 대량 판매의[로], 도매의[로], 전 면적인, 전면적으로, 대대적인, 대대적으로, 대규모의, 대규모로 * buy wholesale and sell retail 도매가로 사고 소매가로 팔다 * wholesaler 도매상 / retailer 소매상 what if : ~ 이라면 어찌 되는가, ~ 하면 어쩌 지, ~ 한들 어떤가 ex. What if I lend you the money? Wouldn't that make everything a lot simpler? 너에게 돈을 빌려주면 어떨까? ex. What if something goes wrong? 일이 잘못되면 어쩌지? ex. Well, what if she's young as long as she's qualified to do the job. 그녀가 어리면 또 어떤가 pay off : 1. ( 빚을 ) 다 갚다 , 2. 이익을 가져오 다 , 성과를 거두다 , 수지맞다 / If something you have done pays off, it is successful ex. All her hard work paid off in the end, and she finally passed the exam. ex. It pays off to manage your Information. * payoff : 1. 혜택 , 이득 (advantage or benefit) ex. If such materials became generally available to the optics industry, the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous. 2. 뇌물 (bribe) 3. A payoff is a large payment made to someone by their employer when the person has been forced to leave their job. ex. The ousted chairman received a $1.5 million payoff from the loss-making oil company. juvenile : 소년[소녀]의, 소년 소녀, 청소년 detention : 구류, 유치, 구금, 억류, (벌로서) 방과후 학교에 남게 함 ex. The teacher kept the boys in detention after school. 방과 후에 남게 했다.