Baskadia

ホンマにアホやなぁ！（５）

　ところが、今はまた受験英語を指導している。高校の入試問題も、大学の入試問題も３０年前から何も変わっていないのだ。受験参考書の構文も、相変わらず　take it for granted that や　not until の世界なのだ。

　日本にやってくるALTが増えて、
「日本の教科書はクソだ」
　とか
「英語が話せない教師が英語を教えている！」
　と言っても誰も耳を貸さない。そして、偏差値追放、小学校から英語を、と意味不明の政策を打ち出す。私のいる予備校、塾業界も暴走族講師やらマドンナ講師やらパフォーマンスばかり。

　そして、それをマスコミが煽る。賢い生徒はあきれ返って「マスゴミ」と揶揄している。

　しかし、一体いつまでこのようなバカな状況が続くのか。

　However, now I am teaching English for entrance exams again. Nothing has changed in the high school and university entrance examinations over the past 30 years. The syntax in exam reference books is still the same as it was 30 years ago: "take it for granted that" and "not until.

　The number of ALTs coming to Japan is increasing.
　"Japanese textbooks are crap.“
"Teachers who can't speak English are teaching English!“

　No one listens to them. And then they come up with policies that make no sense at all, such as banning deviation from the standard, and teaching English from elementary school. The prep school and cram school industry, where I work, is also full of performances by biker gang instructors and Madonna instructors.

　And the mass media is encouraging them. Smart students are so disappointed that they ridicule them as "trash.

　But how long will this stupid situation continue?