英語検定ライティング準１級（第265回）

中学生「強制される勉強にも意味がある話」

学習塾に来る中学生は勉強が好きで授業を受けている訳ではない。人生設計があって今のこの時期は勉強が重要だと認識して学習塾に来る中学生がいたら立派というよりも逆に怖いはず。
A tremendous number of junior high school students visit the cram school in the evening, but almost all of them dislike their studies, in short, they are reluctant to do so.
None of them with the life scheme visits our workplace, who cannot recognize this term of theirs as something important to determine their future, who never fails to be considered as someone strange and eccentric, he says.

好きでもないことを無理やり押し付けられている中学生を見ても不憫だとは思わない。もし彼らがその難題を乗り越えられなければ更なる苦境に陥ることが塾講師には見えているからだ。
When we watch several students who are forced to do what they dislike by their parents, we tend not to feel pitiful toward them because they should have something burdensome and challenging to overcome in this term.
Otherwise, they might bring themselves into more lethal, threatening, deadly, frightening and critical situations in the near future, which almost all tutors might predict.

だが塾に来る高校生は違う。受験に失敗すれば将来が暗いことを知っている。親に経済的負担を強いることが分かっている。周囲に成功しそうな奴がいる。サバイバルに負けてしまう。
A high school students could consider his or her position as an important turning point from another perspective because he or she has learned that the next failure might bring him or her into a dark future, at the same time, the student never fail to feel regret when he or she couldn’t accept the reception letter from the desired university.
It is because the ronin student fails to make positive contributions to his or her family budget, an article says.
There are numerous others, who are likely to enroll their target university, which means that he or she might be a loser, who couldn’t survive his or her examinee season.

中学校に成績のランキングがなければ学習塾は成立しない。下位に甘んじていても将来は暗い。悲観させて献金させるカルト宗教に似ている。だが成績が上がれば両者ともに浮かばれる。
A cram school hasn’t been entitled with the opportunity to teach English and math toward numerous junior high school students without the grades’ ranking list.
Their being at the bottom of it might bring them into a dark future, which would be similar to the cult leaders’ malicious utterance because such words forced them to feel uneasiness and anxiety about their future, he says.
After all, when they pass the examination, both a student and a tutor never fail to be released from their pressure.