每日一翻：Poorer Kids May Be Too Respectful At School

Kids from different economic backgrounds behave differently in classrooms. For example, working-class kids are less likely to ask for help from teachers than are their middle-class counterparts. And when they do ask for help, they’re less aggressive about it. That’s according to a study that followed students from the third grade through the fifth, published in the journal American Sociological Review. [Jessica McCrory Calarco, Coached for the Classroom: Parents’ Cultural Transmission and Children’s Reproduction of Educational Inequalities]

经济背景不同的孩子在学校的表现不同。例如，工薪阶层家庭的孩子向老师求助的可能性比中产阶级家庭的孩子要小。并且，在求助的时候，他们很谦和，不那么咄咄逼人。这是一项对50名三年级学生进行跟踪调查的研究发现的，这项研究发表在《美国社会学评论》期刊上。

Part of the difference in how kids act comes from the guidance they’ve gotten at home. As a rule, working class parents coach their kids to work out problems on their own. And if the kids did ask for help, it was in subtle ways—like sitting quietly with a hand raised. Middle class kids? Their parents urged them to be proactive, even to interrupt their teachers for help.

The result is that teachers were more likely to attend to the assistance-seekers and louder class-participators. Which left working class kids behind and magnified inequalities. So the working class child’s behavior, which they and their parents see as “respectful,” could impair their success in the classroom. And prevent them from joining their classmates in higher social classes.

结果是，教师更有可能帮助主动寻求帮助的人以及课堂上积极的人。这让工薪阶级的孩子落后以及让不平等放大。所以工薪阶级的孩子的行为会影响他们在课堂上的表现，他们的行为常常被他们自己和他们的父母当作是自尊。并且这种行为让他们不愿意参到处于更高的社会阶层的同学的社交圈子中。

—Erika Beras