在每一个班集体里，或多或少都有这么一些“问题”学生，他们迟到、旷课，不交作业，顶撞老师，甚至打架、斗殴。对待这些同学，大家或许早已习惯了避之则吉，或者孤立歧视，却极少有人想到要去了解、关心他们。没有人天生就喜欢惹事生非、讨人嫌，如果能有更多的人、更好的方法，让他们敞开心扉，谁能说“问题”学生不能改造成模范学生呢？
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It's an average morning for 13-year-old Loretta Cook. Like thousands of kids, Loretta's a problem at school. Two thousand are sent home every day and 6000 are 1)expelled each year. Classroom behavior is at an all-time low.
对于13岁的洛蕾塔·库克来说，这只是个平常的早上。像其他数千小孩一样，洛蕾塔在学校是个问题少女。这类孩子中，每天有两千人被送回家，每年有六千学生被开除出校。此类学生在课堂教学的表现空前地差。
Teacher: Loretta's on a downhill 2)spiral at the moment: lack of homework, lack of respect,3)punctuality to lessons, just a general attitude.
老师：洛蕾塔现在正在走下坡路，基本态度就是：不交作业，不懂得尊重，上课迟到。
Now 4)at their wit's end, Loretta's mom and her teachers will attempt something that's never been tried before. They plan to transform Loretta at home.
最后洛蕾塔的妈妈和老师都无计可施，决定尝试从来都没有试过的方法。他们打算在家里改造洛蕾塔。
Miss Dudley: (To Loretta) We've decided that I'm going to come and stay with you for the week.
达德利老师：（对洛蕾塔说）我们决定让我到你们家跟你呆一个星期。
Miss Dudley's first challenge will be how to get Loretta to start doing homework.
达德利老师的首项挑战是如何让洛蕾塔开始做功课。
Loretta: I didn't actually do anything. I knew it when I'm on the start. I was 5)flicking through the books and then I just got really bored.
洛蕾塔：我实际上什么都不做。我从一开始就知道了。我翻书的时候就会觉得很闷。
It's six o'clock and Miss Dudley's first dinner time with the family. After dinner, Miss Dudley is interested in who does what about the house.
现在是六点钟，是达德利老师初次与库克一家共进晚餐的时候。用过晚饭后，达德利老师很想知道谁来做家务。
Miss Dudley: What happens now? Do the girls just…?
达德利老师：现在怎么了？女孩子们就……？
Mother: I usually get the washing up done. Very rarely do the children do anything. Not one of them would wash up unless I asked them to, and then I probably wouldn't get it done properly anyway. If I force the issue, it will be a full-scale 6)hysterical7)outburst.
妈妈：通常是我把餐具洗了。基本上，孩子们不做任何事情。如果我不叫她们做，她们谁都不会去洗餐具，而我也很可能不会用适当的方式让她们来干活。要是我硬叫她们去干，家里就会爆发口角大战。
Miss Dudley: In the classroom we have rules that the kids have to stick to and stuff that they absolutely have to do. It's just a basic expectation of what we'll expect them to behave like. What she needs to know is that you're the one that's in charge.
达德利老师：我们在教室里有规定，孩子们必须遵守这些规定并且明白到哪些是自己必须做的。那是我们对他们行为的最基本期望。她需要知道的是，你是那个掌权的人。
Eight AM and the family just make it out the door on time, but when they arrive there's a problem.
早上八点，库克一家才及时出门，但到了学校的时候，问题来了。
Miss Dudley: Loretta doesn't want to get out the car right in front of school, so she's asking Mom to drive to the corner of the car park.
达德利老师：洛蕾塔不想直接在学校门口下车，所以她让母亲驶到停车场的角落里。