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Front of the Class · 2008 — 第 7 / 17 章 · 2'56" · B2

Brad Stands Up in a Job Interview, Explained：take something as a challenge

The interview is going well until Brad's tics surface; the interviewer offers the job, then asks him to "refrain from making these noises in class." Brad hears a man who sees his disability before his students. He wants the job badly — but not from someone who doesn't care about kids.

あらすじ

Brad Cohen, who has Tourette's syndrome, interviews for a fifth-grade teaching job at an elementary school. His tics keep interrupting him, and the interviewer is visibly uncomfortable. When the principal warns that the students are "hard cases" and forbids the noises in class, Brad pushes back — politely, but firmly.

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take something as a challengegive upcoprolaliarefrain from doing something

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このシーンの表現

take something as a challenge

treat something as a challenge

Told the students are hard cases, Brad calmly says he takes that as a challenge.

She decided to take the criticism as a challenge.

このシーンの他の表現

  • give up

    stop trying

  • coprolalia

    a rare Tourette's symptom of swearing

  • refrain from doing something

    hold back from doing

  • care about someone

    feel concern for someone

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 17 件のメモ

表現 · B2have no choice but to do something

be forced to do something

I had no choice but to prove Tourette's would never get the best of me.
表現 · C1be barking up the wrong tree

chasing the wrong idea

If I quit, I'd be agreeing with everyone who had ever told me I was barking up the wrong tree.
文法 · B2If I quit, I'd be agreeing with everyone who had ever told me

hypothetical if: If plus would imagines a choice and its consequence, not a real event.

If I quit, I'd be agreeing with everyone who had ever told me I was barking up the wrong tree.
表現 · A2be sorry about something

feel bad about something

Hmm. Uh, sorry about the air-conditioning.
発音tough place

The gh in tough is silent; slide straight into place.

But I do have to tell you, this is a tough place to work. [barks] Um,
表現 · B2a hard case

a difficult person

we've got some really hard cases.
表現 · B2believe someone is hopeless

think someone cannot improve

I don't believe that any kid is hopeless.
発音can't ever

Link can't ever so it almost sounds like one word.

You can't ever give up.
表現 · B1get something stuck in one's throat

lodged in your throat

You got something stuck in your throat.
表現 · B2yell out something

shout rude words out loud

Tourette's? Isn't that where you yell out obscenities?
表現 · B2be handicapped

having a disability

Listen. They did not tell me that you were going to be handicapped.
表現 · B2pose a problem

cause a problem

My Tourette's never posed a problem.
表現 · B1the bottom line

the main point

I can teach.Okay, bottom line.
表現 · B2refrain from doing something

hold back from doing

The principal offers the job only if Brad refrains from making his noises in class.

You want to teach here, you're going to have to refrain from making these noises in class.
表現 · A2care about someone

feel concern for someone

Brad admits he wants the job, then refuses it because the man does not care about his students.

But I would never ever work for a man that doesn't care about his students.
文法 · B2a man that doesn't care about his students

relative clause: The that-clause describes which man he means, the core of his refusal.

But I would never ever work for a man that doesn't care about his students.
表現 · B2take up someone's time

stop using your time

So I'll take my portfolio and, uh, and take no more of your time.

「Brad Stands Up in a Job Interview」を読み解く

What's really going on

The interview isn't really about qualifications — Brad's résumé already proves he can teach. It's about whether the principal can see past the disability. Every time Brad tics, the principal's focus snaps back to the symptom: "You got something stuck in your throat?" When Brad explains coprolalia is rare and he doesn't have it, the principal answers with "They did not tell me that you were going to be handicapped" — treating a neurological condition as a broken product. Brad's counter is the scene's core: "I don't believe that any kid is hopeless." He refuses the premise that a class full of "hard cases" needs to be controlled rather than reached. So when the principal tells him to "refrain from making these noises in class," Brad realizes the man cares about order, not kids, and says he'd never work for a man who doesn't care about his students.

Theme

IdentityBrad insists Tourette's is something he has, not who he is, and refuses to let it decide what he can do.
CourageHe turns rejection into resolve: "I don't believe that any kid is hopeless" — and won't give up on himself either.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Real teaching means believing no child is beyond help.
  • Pride can cost you a job, and that is fine.
  • A polite refusal can be firmer than a shout.
  • Words like refrain and challenge carry quiet weight.

発音のポイント

  • tough place — The gh in tough is silent; slide straight into place.
  • can't ever — Link can't ever so it almost sounds like one word.
I don't believe that any kid is hopeless.

His teaching creed, delivered right after the principal calls the students tough: no child is beyond saving, so no teacher should write one off.

But I would never ever work for a man that doesn't care about his students.

The line that ends the interview: he'd rather lose the job than work for someone who treats kids as problems to manage.

Tourette's or no Tourette's, I was going to be a teacher.

His voiceover: the tics wouldn't decide his future, because teaching was settled long before any interview.

I had no choice but to prove Tourette's would never get the best of me.

He frames his whole fight as necessity, not ambition — proving he could succeed was the only way forward.

このシーンについての質問

Why won't Brad just take the job, even though he wants it?

Because the principal's demand — that he "refrain from making these noises in class" — shows the man cares more about a quiet room than about students. Brad says he'd never work for someone who doesn't care about his students.

Does the principal actually offer Brad the job?

He says he needs someone for the fifth grade now, so it's on the table — but with the condition that Brad stop his tics in class, which is impossible. Brad walks away instead.

What does "hard cases" mean here?

Kids who are difficult to manage or reach. The principal uses it to warn Brad the school is tough, almost as a test of whether he'll back out.

Why does Brad bring up coprolalia?

The principal assumes Tourette's means shouting obscenities. Brad clarifies that that symptom, coprolalia, is rare and he doesn't have it, trying to correct the stereotype before it costs him the job.

Front of the Class · 全 17 章

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第 1 章elephant in the roomBrad Asks for a Chance第 2 章drive someone nutsBrad's Tics Drive His Family Crazy第 3 章at the end of one's ropeBrad's Childhood with Tourette's第 4 章live withBrad Learns He Has Tourette's第 5 章face something head-onBrad Refuses to Hide第 6 章get in the wayBrad's Dad Offers Him a Job再生中 · 第 7 章take something as a challengeBrad Stands Up in a Job Interview第 8 章have the giftDiane Tells Brad He Has the Gift第 9 章color outside the linesBrad Cohen's Best Interview第 10 章go to bat for someoneBrad Gets Kicked Off the Golf Course第 11 章talk the talk, walk the walkBrad Gets His First Teaching Job第 12 章a whole alphabet of problemsMr. Cohen Teaches Second Grade第 13 章take it to heartAmanda's Dad Pulls Her from Class第 14 章make an exceptionBrad's Dad Threatens a Lawsuit第 15 章give up on someoneBrad Won't Give Up on a Student第 16 章fed upBrad Worries He'll Hurt Nancy第 17 章je ne sais quoiBrad's Dad Finally Says He's Proud
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