Maggie さんのインタビュースクリプト（その１）Maggie:My name is Maggie Padilla. I am a fifth grade teacher for Baldwin Park Unified. This is my first year, myfirst year actually teaching the dual language program, which is half English, half Spanish. And I’ve beena teacher for five years.
Interviewer:
Please tell us about the bright side of education.
Maggie:I think, for me, the bright side of education is the age group that I work with is still very willing to listen toyou. They’re usually between ages of ten and eleven years old. They’re still very optimistic, they’re still
very, um, enthusiastic, some of them, well, for the most part, about school. Um, I think what gives me asense of accomplishment is that you can still help students, and you can still get them to set goals andenvision where they can still go in life. Um, especially for those that tend to have problems. They tend tostruggle – if you can encourage them, if you can support them, and find ways to support them along with
their families, they tend to do better and they tend to strive more and they tend to do a lot better.
Interviewer:
Okay. And how about the opposite, the dark side?
Maggie:I think the opposite for me would have to be that we do deal with a lot of social problems that sometimes
people don’t understand. Um, I feel that people believe, that when they send their children to school, that
we’re going to somehow magically solve everything for them that’s going on in their life, and oftentimes
we do try to be supportive, and it is our responsibility to try to help them cope. But we also have theultimate responsibility of, we have to make sure these students are well-educated, that they reach certain
standards. And sometimes it’s difficult for people or for families to accept that the social issues goingaround affect their child. So that’s, that’s sometimes difficult. And I think what’s also difficult is the way thatit’s set up – I really don’t feel like we have enough resources, or the resources we deserve to be able tohandle. The workload that it is to, to teach, because of the social issues behind it – it’s not just to beteaching a child basic arithmetic or to read. There’s so many other parts of it that are ingrained, that noone ever thinks about. And I think that’s probably what’s the most difficult for me, and I’m saying this forthe most part in the media, “Oh, our teachers are so bad, oh our teachers – they’re the reason why ourcountry is failing, oh, our teachers”... it’s really not like that. It’s more like, we are, what they are, as ourprincipal put it, the front line. Because they come to us for seven, eight hours of the day and we have totry to figure out a way to not just educate them, but teach them how to cope as well.

Interviewer:
Advice for people learning English.
Maggie:I think for learning English, I think about it compared to the way I’m trying to teach my students how to
speak in, in Spanish – the best way to do it would have to be, just living it. Living it, reading it, writing it,speaking it. I think there’s only so much you can learn out of a textbook than rather than experiencing it
yourself, first hand. I think that’s probably the best one, is to speak. And even though it might be afrightening situation at first for many people, I think it’s better that way. You learn more, and you learn how
to cope and deal a lot faster.