1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家标题：voa慢速英语:教育者帮助年轻人生存和自由对应音频：0826a.mp3听力内容：San Francisco Educator Works to Keep Young People Alive and FreeThis is the VOA Special English Education Report.More than half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school. Many grow up without fathers and in neighborho
2、ods with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out of school have spent time in jail by the age of thirty-five.Joe Marshall co-founded the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California, twenty-three years ago. Mr. Marshall tries to give boys - and girls - a safe refuge and a chan
3、ce at a better future.Every week, he has two basic messages for his young students: Stop the violence and Dont do drugs.Mr. Marshall spent twenty-five years as a teacher and administrator in San Francisco. He taught math in middle school and expected to see his best students go to college.JOE MARSHA
4、LL: I got a lot of horror stories and a lot of my former students ended up dead or in prison for selling drugs, being involved in gangs, girls ended up getting pregnant.The Omega Boys Club serves more than four hundred young people every year. Two times a week, it offers after-school classes in math
5、, reading, family and life skills, and college preparation.In many ways, it serves as a kind of family. It provides teenagers with structure and support.Joe Marshall has a doctorate in psychology. He sees gangs and violence as a disease that needs to be dealt with as a public health problem.JOE MARS
6、HALL: Thats what these young people get. They develop a street mentality. The big part is dealing with the emotional residue of anger, fear and pain that they develop because they got invested in this in the first place.Then we tell them to follow some new rules for living that will decrease their c
7、hances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free.The club represents the headquarters of what he calls the alive and free movement. But his most effective way to spread his anti-violence message is through radio.In nineteen ninety-one, Joe Marsh
8、all started Street Soldiers, a weekly call-in show.JOE MARSHALL: OK, lets talk to line two. Line two. And this is-Is this Marlena? This aint the Marlena I know.MARLENA: Yes Doctor Marshall, this is Marlena!JOE MARSHALL: It is my Marlena!Marlena was one of the graduates of the Omega Boys Club.JOE MAR
9、SHALL: Shes at Southern University right now, going into her third year. She talked about what she had learned the hard way and how we helped her learn that by coming to Omega, by listening to Street Soldiers, and she said she had learned how to love herself.The club provides guidance and financial
10、assistance to help students stay in school. Over ninety percent of members who were accepted into college have graduated.Twelve other American cities have copied the program. Joe Marshall has been invited to speak in Canada, Nigeria, South Africa and Thailand.He turned sixty-three this year.JOE MARS
11、HALL: I want to build an institution. Im not going to be here forever, so my big thing is to make sure this goes on.And thats the VOA Special English Education Report. Im Steve Ember.这里是VOA特别英语教育报道。美国超过一半的年轻黑人男子未高中毕业。许多人在没有父亲，充满犯罪团伙，毒品和暴力的环境下长大。那些辍学的人有60%的人35岁之前曾经坐牢。二十三年前，Joe Marshall联合创建了欧米茄男孩俱乐部。M
12、arshall希望为男孩女孩们提供一个安全的庇护所，使他们有机会拥有更美好的未来。每周他都要向这些年轻的学生传达两条最基本的信息“杜绝暴力”和“远离毒品”。Marshall在旧金山担任了25年的教师和行政管理人员。他在中学教数学，预期，他将看到最好的学生去读大学。Joe Marshall：“我经历了许多非常恐怖的故事，我以前的许多学生因贩卖毒品，参与团伙犯罪而悲惨死去或锒铛入狱，女孩子则有很多人怀孕。”欧米茄男孩俱乐部每年接纳400多名年轻的学生。每周两次提供数学，阅读，家庭生活技能和考大学的准备方面的课后培训。该俱乐部在很多方面都像一个大家庭，为青少年提供组织和支持。Joe Marshall
13、拥有心理学博士学位。他认为团伙犯罪和暴力是一种疾病，应该作为公共健康问题来处理。JOE MARSHALL：“这就是这些年轻人存在的问题。他们形成了一种街头心态。其中一大部分是应对愤怒，担心和痛苦的情绪残余。因为他们最初就处在这样的环境中，所以才形成了这样的情绪。”“然后，我告诉他们遵守一些新的生活规则，这会降低他们横尸街头或锒铛入狱的风险，极大地增加生存和自由的机会。”该俱乐部是他所说的“生存和自由运动”的总部。但是他传达自己的反暴力信息的最有效的方法是通过无线电广播。1991年，Joe Marshall创办了Street Soldiers ，一个每周举办的电话交谈节目。JOE MARSHAL
14、L：“好的，让我们跟2号线的听众谈一下。是Marlena吗？这不可能是我认识的Marlena。”MARLENA：“是的，MARSHALL博士，我是Marlena。”JOE MARSHALL：“是我的Marlena！”Marlena是欧米茄男孩俱乐部的一名毕业生。JOE MARSHALL：“她现在在南方大学，已经读大三。她说，通过来欧米茄，通过收听Street Soldiers节目，她终于了解到我们帮助她学习的艰难。她说现在已经学会了怎样爱自己。”该俱乐部提供指引和经济资助，帮助学生继续读书。被大学录取的超过90%的俱乐部成员都从大学毕业。美国其他12个城市模仿了该项目。Joe Marshall受邀前往加拿大，尼日利亚，南非和泰国发表演讲。Joe Marshall今年已经63岁。Joe Marshall：“我想成立一个公共机构。我不可能永远都在这里。所以我最大的愿望就是确保这一切能够继续下去。”高考资源网版权所有，侵权必究！
