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Bad Education · 2019 — 第 16 / 18 章 · 4'03" · B2

Frank Teaches Chad With a Racecar, Explained：trot out

An eager mother brings her son to pitch the superintendent, and it ends in an insult. Chad struggles to read "accelerated," so Frank turns it into a racecar fable: a five-ton block dragging behind you, freed only if you "put your foot on the gas." Then Frank calls parents who "trot their poor children out like racehorses."

あらすじ

Carol Schweitzer and her son Chad stop Frank Tassone in the hallway and ask him to consider Chad for the OMNI program. Frank says it is not the best time but agrees to hear them out. Chad reads a prepared statement and stumbles on the word "accelerated," so Frank explains acceleration with a racecar story about a cinder block.

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注目の表現

not the best timehear someone outspitelet's say

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このシーンの表現

trot out

show off someone as a spectacle

Frank compares pushy parents to owners parading children like racehorses.

Every holiday she trots out the same old stories.

このシーンの他の表現

  • not the best time

    a bad moment for this

  • hear someone out

    listen until they finish

  • spite

    a wish to hurt someone

  • let's say

    suppose, for the sake of argument

  • off my back

    free from a burden

このシーンのメモ一覧

68 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B1not the best time (to do something)

a bad moment for this

Frank greets Carol by saying now is not the best time, a polite brush-off.

Uh, Ms. Schweitzer, uh, Carol, now's really not the best time.
表現 · A2share something with someone

tell you about it

Chad has something that he would really like to share with you.
文法 · B2something that he would really like to share

relative clause: The that-clause describes the something Chad wants to share with Frank.

Chad has something that he would really like to share with you.
表現 · B2hear someone out

listen until they finish

Carol pushes Chad forward, and Frank agrees to hear the boy out before judging.

All right, please, why don't you just take a moment, all right, and hear him out.
表現 · B1the subject of something

the topic of

Wait, I thought we already discussed the subject of OMNI last fall.
表現 · B1look into something

investigate it

All right, well, I guess I'll just have to look into it.
表現 · B2consider someone for something

keep someone in mind for

I very much hope that you will still consider me for this amazing program.
表現 · B1sound something out

read it out slowly

-Ack... -Okay, sound that out.
表現 · B1skip to something

jump ahead to

-Good, I hope. -Oh, no, no, let's, let's skip to that trouble sentence there, Chad.
表現 · A2take your time

don't rush

That's okay. All right, yeah, take your time.
発音Accelerated

Stress the second syllable; drill it slowly as ac-ce-le-ra-ted.

Accelerated.
表現 · B1all of a sudden

suddenly

The wind is in your hair and you're feeling just great, and all of a sudden, you feel this thing behind you digging into your fender, and you look into the mirror, right.
発音you're feeling

You're reduces to /jər/ and runs into feeling.

The wind is in your hair and you're feeling just great, and all of a sudden, you feel this thing behind you digging into your fender, and you look into the mirror, right.
表現 · B2dig in / be dug in

stuck in firmly

And there's this hook. There's a hook in your fender dug in real good, and it's connected to a-- a long metal rope and at the end of that rope is, well, it's a massive five-ton cinder block.
文法 · B2you've gone from first to last place

present perfect: Have gone marks a completed fall whose result still matters right now.

So your job is driving. You're Dale Earnhardt and here's this cinder block, and all the other cars are soaring past you and you've gone from first to last place and you keep thinking to yourself, "What the hell do I have to do to get this thing off my back?"
発音What the hell

What the often blurs into whadda, with the barely audible.

So your job is driving. You're Dale Earnhardt and here's this cinder block, and all the other cars are soaring past you and you've gone from first to last place and you keep thinking to yourself, "What the hell do I have to do to get this thing off my back?"
スラング · B2What the hell

what on earth — Spoken only, for frustration or emphasis; avoid it in formal settings.

So your job is driving. You're Dale Earnhardt and here's this cinder block, and all the other cars are soaring past you and you've gone from first to last place and you keep thinking to yourself, "What the hell do I have to do to get this thing off my back?"
表現 · B2put one's foot on the gas

push hard and go faster

You just put your foot on the gas real hard and you accelerate, you accelerate so fast that rope snaps in two, the cinder block explodes, and just say it with me, Chad.
表現 · B2hold someone by the hand

guide someone closely

-Carol: Okay-- -I mean, do you remember the teachers who sat with you, who held you by the hand, -who taught you to add. -Carol: No.
文法 · B2because that is not convenient for you

adverbial clause: The because-clause supplies the real motive, turning an insult into an argument.

You don't wanna see us as people because that is not convenient for you.
表現 · B2at will

whenever one likes

You just leave us behind at will.
スラング · A2gonna

going to — Everyday speech only; keep it out of writing and formal talk.

I don't think anything's wrong. We're gonna get some food and we're gonna go home, okay?

「Frank Teaches Chad With a Racecar」を読み解く

What's really going on

The meeting is a performance on both sides. Carol has coached Chad and pushes him forward — "we just need one minute of your attention" — while Chad recites a letter he barely understands. Frank's patience looks generous, and the racecar story is a genuinely good way to teach "accelerate." But the metaphor also gives him a language for his own resentment: a car dragged down by a five-ton block is how he sees his job. When the parent pushes too hard, that resentment comes out: "it's the people who trot their poor children out like racehorses at Belmont" and "who derive some perverse joy out of treating us like low-level service reps." Carol refuses the frame — "you don't wanna see us as people because that is not convenient for you" — and leaves him with "You should be ashamed of yourself." The lesson taught the parent more than the child.

Theme

ClassA parent begging for a spot is told she treats teachers like "low-level service reps," exposing the gap between families and staff.
PrideFrank's racecar lesson is warm until his own frustration takes over and he insults the mother in front of her child.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Frank hides a refusal inside polite small talk.
  • The racecar block stands for the weight you carry.
  • Patience breaks when the same word is missed again.

発音のポイント

  • Accelerated — Stress the second syllable; drill it slowly as ac-ce-le-ra-ted.
  • you're feeling — You're reduces to /jər/ and runs into feeling.
  • What the hell — What the often blurs into whadda, with the barely audible.
You don't wanna see us as people because that is not convenient for you.

Carol's accusation: the district treats parents and children as problems to manage, not as people with feelings, because that is easier.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Carol's parting shot, delivered in front of Chad — a judgment that the man who just taught a children's metaphor has humiliated them.

You just put your foot on the gas real hard and you accelerate, you accelerate so fast that rope snaps in two, the cinder block explodes, and just say it with me, Chad.

Frank's fable in one line: the only way past a burden is to speed up until it breaks, which he turns into a vocabulary lesson.

You just leave us behind at will.

Part of Carol's rebuke: she says staff and families are dropped the moment they become inconvenient, with no thought for them afterward.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Carol bring Chad to see Frank?

She wants Frank to admit Chad to the OMNI program, and she has Chad read a prepared statement asking to be considered. She insists on just one minute of his time in the hallway.

Why does Frank tell the racecar story?

Chad stumbles over the word "accelerated," so Frank explains it with an image: a racecar dragging a five-ton cinder block, freed only by accelerating hard enough to snap the rope.

Why does Frank turn on Carol?

After teaching the lesson, Frank mocks parents who parade their children for a program and treat staff like service reps. Carol's pushiness triggers his frustration, and he insults her in front of Chad.

Is Frank being fair to Carol?

The racecar lesson is patient and useful, but the attack that follows is personal and aimed at her in front of her son. Carol answers that he sees families as inconvenient, not as people.

What does Carol say before she leaves?

She tells Frank he wants to leave staff and families behind at will, never thinking of them again, and finishes with "You should be ashamed of yourself" before walking away with Chad.

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