受疫情影响,学校突然关闭,学生们突然被要求离校;只能在家上网课,老师分享屏幕可能会出现尴尬内容,课堂被恶意入侵;学生们要求学校退还部分学费,学校陷入困境;出现了各种各样的创意毕业典礼。
日本某商学院的虚拟机器人毕业典礼,在《动物之森》《我的世界》等游戏上举办毕业典礼,今年奥普拉、奥巴马等人的毕业致辞也会在网上进行,目前苹果CEO库克已经发表了一个线上毕业演讲。在节目的最后,崔娃携 《每日秀》的成员们送上了一份“励志”演讲。
笑出眼泪,毕业季到,崔娃与他的朋友们也录制了爆笑毕业寄语给毕业生们,但是这寄语听着好缺乏正能量 :
你以为你的理想因为新冠而无法实现了吗?其实,跟你讲,有没有新冠,毕业的人一般都实现不了理想。
大部分人只是做着自己并不讨厌的工作,直到退休。
你以为这次的灾难就是你人生最大的坎儿吗?其实不是,你的人生还在继续,未来还有很多这样的灾难将来临。
至少大家可以期待2025年,那时这场疫情带来的影响应该就差不多结束了。。。
毕业后的你会成为怎样的人呢?从以前的数字来看,你们这些毕业生里至少有10%会成为某公司的领导者,剩下的那些才可能会成为杀人犯
在新冠结束前,可以先旅行,比如到后院角落看看能不能挖出一具尸体,或在顶楼里找到你母亲以前的日记,写着:“嫁给你爸不是她的第一选择。但是他收入比较好,所以就将就了。。。”
等你可以恢复自由走出去,记得所有摸过你的人,因为他们可能是最终把病毒传给你的人。。。
你比你想象中坚强,就像你在暗网上买到的那卷手纸一样。
Well, class of 2020, here we are. -Here we are. -Here we are. 
-Here we are. 
-At home. 
-At home. 
-At home. I'm stuck in a hotel room in Bulgaria. And I know this wasn't the graduation you were expecting. You thought you'd be with your fellow graduates on the campus lawn, hungover from the night before, trying to figure out how to break up with your boyfriend who wants to follow you to the big city. But instead, we're meeting on Zoom and judging everyone's living room furniture. 
And I know some of you are worried that this pandemic might stop you from reaching your dreams. But I want you to know that even without this pandemic, nobody reaches their dreams. 
Nobody. Most people just end up doing a job they don't hate until they retire. It's just life. You think my dream was to work on this show? I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to be a dancer. I wanted to be a dinosaur. I wanted to not live in a hotel room in Bulgaria. The concierge is a horse. And the fact is the story of your life is still being written. 
This is just one chapter in your life, a life that will no doubt be filled with many other pandemics. But remember, you have so much to look forward to, like the year 2025. I think this shit will have died down by then. 
And once this is all over, your class will make a huge difference in the world. Statistically speaking, ten percent of you will go on to lead companies. The rest of you will probably murder someone. 
So, great things await you. Until then, use this time to travel. Go on an adventure to, like, I don't know, the other side of the hotel room. Explore the really far corners of your backyard. I heard somebody's buried there? 
Visit the attic of your house. Find your mom's old journal that says that your dad wasn't her first choice but she decided to settle for him anyway because eye doctors make great money and that she would learn to love his nipple hair. 
And as you go out into the world, remember all the people who touched you along the way. Because those are probably the assholes spreading this virus. Why are they going around touching everybody? Let me tell you something. If you try to touch me, I'm gonna. 
As you move forward in life, the most important piece of advice I can give you is this. You are much stronger than you think, just like that off-brand toilet paper you found on the dark web. -Good luck. -Good luck. -Good luck. -Good luck. -Good luck. Help me get out of this hotel. For real, call the embassy.  
崔娃盘点新冠时期的大学生活!
Usually, when we talk about coronavirus, we focus on the lives lost, the economy, and jobs. But the truth is this pandemic is changing our world in a million different ways, and one of those ways is how higher education is functioning. And we're gonna learn all about that in our new segment College in the Time of Corona. 
In normal times, college is one of the greatest periods in a young person's life. You make your closest friends. You soak up exciting new ideas. You have your athletic abilities financially exploited. But all that changed this year when COVID-19 hit and campuses across the country shut down like this. 
The sudden closure of college campuses across the country over the coronavirus sent millions of students home early. These students barely had any time to pack up their things and leave. A lot of folks said that they had to leave their belongings on campus. I got a call on Sunday sort of saying, like, it's time to go. So I didn't really have time to say goodbye to anyone. 
WOMAN: We didn't have any boxes. We were throwing things in garbage bags and trying to drag them down the hall. Man. That has got to suck so much. Can you imagine? One minute, you're in school, and, the next thing, your stuff is in trash bags and you're on the street. 
Which is pretty rough. I mean, the last person who had to leave college that quickly was Aunt Becky's daughter. Having your university shut down instantly is not a normal thing. I mean, except at Trump University. "Okay, class, uh, today, we're gonna be learning -"about business finance. 
- "And the most important thing you want to... Oh, shit, it's the cops. We got to go, we got to go!" But even though students are no longer at school, they're still supposed to be going to class. And students are quickly being confronted with the reality that online learning is a little different than the real thing. 
REPORTER: College classes that once looked like this now look like this. Students say they miss interacting with professors, and campus resources, such as libraries and study groups, are gone. 
REPORTER 2: Students claim online instruction is far below the classroom experience. They suck. Literally, they suck. We're now, um, obligated to spend about half of our day, uh, Zooming our teachers. WOMAN: If you're in, like, a 200-person lecture and, like, one person forgets to mute themself, then it-- that's just, like, chaos. 
REPORTER: Some even getting Zoom-bombed-- in this class, by a clown. During a remote learning class, a University of Miami instructor shared his screen with his students. The main page had that-that day's lessons, but some eagle-eyed students spotted the words "Busty college girl" at the top of his screen. 
Yeah, during a college Zoom lecture, uh, the students noticed that their lecturer, who was sharing his screen, had a tab open for "Busty college girl," and that is so embarrassing. I mean, who still uses the word "busty"? 
What, are you searching for porn in the 1920s?  "Looking for busty flapper gals!" Now, to be fair, to be fair, we might not know the whole story, right? Because tabs get cut off all the time on a computer. Yeah. Maybe that browsing tab says "Busty college girl," but then, when you see the full website name, it's actually "How to respect and act appropriately around busty college girls." 
We don't know. We know. But, yeah, students are quickly learning that online college is just not as good as the real thing. It's kind of like how online gambling is not like the real thing. I mean, yeah, you can lose your money, but if someone's not there to break your legs, then what's the point? And here's the other thing about online classes. 
Even if they go well, classes are not the only important thing about going to college. Students and families pay huge tuitions because they want the entire college experience. And now that they're not getting it, they want some of that money back. 
REPORTER: Protestors are taking aim at colleges and universities. Students picketing schools, saying they're not getting what they paid for. 
REPORTER 2: They filed class action lawsuits demanding partial tuition refunds. One claims online learning is subpar in practically every aspect. I totally get why these college students want their money back. 
I mean, imagine paying for Yale but, instead, now you're getting University of Phoenix. It's like buying a ticket to see a movie starring Tom Cruise, and then you get there and they show one starring Ted Cruz. 
You got to refund my popcorn, at least. And it's so unfair that these students aren't gonna get their money back, when their professors are so rich that they can even afford elbow patches for their jackets. I mean, that's not fair. 
And why are they protecting their elbows anyway? They're not Rollerblading. So, right now, because of coronavirus, college has become much less appealing. And because enrollments have dropped so much for next year, colleges have gotten desperate, so desperate that they're willing to accept students that they never previously would have even considered, which means shit's gonna get really interesting next semester. 
"My son got into Harvard because he got perfect SAT scores." "Oh, my son got into Harvard from a Groupon." So now May is here, and this weird, unprecedented school year is coming to an end. And the good news is, while the Class of 2020 may not have gotten everything they might have wanted out of their final semester, they're still finding innovative ways to make graduation day as special as possible. 
REPORTER: Trent Johnson went to Ohio State University, but the school didn't hold commencement, so Johnson walked across his family's living room instead. 
REPORTER 2: One business school in Japan getting creative. The graduating students take a virtual walk across the stage to receive their diplomas as robot avatars. 
REPORTER 3: Students are holding their own graduation ceremonies on popular games like Animal Crossing. UC Berkeley's Class of 2020 is getting creative when it comes to celebrating their achievements. 
MAN: We are recreating the entire UC Berkeley campus in Minecraft to host a commencement ceremony. It's gonna be an open day for everyone to just explore campus, kind of relive their memories, take photos. 
MAN 2: I'm imagining just a entire campus-wide party. Bravo. These kids recreated their entire campus in a Minecraft video game? They did this just so that they could get together for one last hurrah. And, you know, this reminds me of when I spent a semester studying abroad in the Mushroom Kingdom. 
Young love. Je t'aime, Bowser. Je t'aime. Now, if you're not lucky enough to have gone to a school that's figured out how to throw a whole commencement inside a video game, you can still have a kick-ass graduation, because celebrities everywhere are getting together to do virtual commencement addresses for the entire Class of 2020. 
Like, Oprah is doing one with help from Simone Biles, Lil Nas X, and Miley Cyrus. President Obama-- he's giving one with LeBron James and Malala. Yeah. That's super cool. Although it's gonna be tricky to watch an Obama speech over Zoom because you'll never know if he's buffering or just pausing for effect. "And to all the young kids out there, uh, you got to, uh..." "Mom! You got to restart the router!" "...follow your dreams." "Never mind!" And I'm not gonna lie, man. 
These virtual commencement addresses, they seem like a really cool idea. So, we at The Daily Show, well, we thought we would share our own inspirational message for the Class of 2020. 
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中国上层精英纷纷将孩子送出国,背后原因令人沉默

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到底是一种什么样的焦虑和不满导致了这样的现状?

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来源:明月红霞
前言:这些年,从亿万富翁到平民老百姓,“移民”或“送孩子出国”都成为大家日常谈论的话题,许多人已经“出走”,许多留下的人还在筹划。数据表明,中国已经成为海外高中生源的第一大国。到底是一种什么样的焦虑和不满导致了这样的现状?
01
留学低龄化的井喷趋势,究竟意味着什么?
“又被教官训了。”2019年9月开学后,陈小天每天都能在初中同学微信群里听到关于军训的吐槽,他边看边上传了张打网球的照片:哎,剑桥的温差虽然大了点,但也不能辜负了这蓝天白云呀,引来小伙伴们一连串的白眼。
没有军训,不用早起,此刻的陈小天,正在英国剑桥乡下的一所私立高中里,享受着传统但充满乐趣的绅士教育,尽管成本听起来有些高昂:每年学费和生活费加起来近40万人民币。
来自南京的陈小天只是众多中国留学少年的一员。各种数据显示,这个从新千年开始出现的群体,在最近两年正呈井喷之势。
美国、加拿大、英国、澳洲等国,也正在成为中国小孩新的目的地。《华尔街日报》刊文称,过去五年,加拿大多伦多地区的国际中学生突然飙升了40%,其中四分之三来自中国。
这些孩子的家长们,已经不再只限于富人、官员和知识精英,更有普通的工薪阶层,中国的下一代教育是否正在另一种体制里突围?
02
出走的“好孩子”
如果不去英国,陈小天应该正在南京一所知名高中里,接受题山文海的洗礼。孩子的亲友,对于他的出国感到震惊,15岁的他已经比同龄小孩具备很多竞争优势:在南京最好的初中念书,初一就有游学英国的经历。
南方周末记者采访发现,这波少年留学潮中,主角不再只是那种成绩不好在国内混不下去的“坏孩子”,而更多的是像陈小天般的优等生。正在美国加州一所私立高中念高三的宋雨晨,初中是在上海浦东排名第二的中学念的,他们班上45个同学,有一半出国读高中。
能不能出去,不仅靠成绩,还得有雄厚的经济实力。海外高中普遍没有奖学金,中国学生又以选择寄宿私立学校居多,学费加生活费一般在5万美金左右。在美国高中四年就得120万人民币,如果加上本科,至少投入150万到200万。
这些小孩未必来自大富大贵的家庭。宋雨晨有一个在大型投资公司当老总的父亲,这点钱自然不成问题。而陈小天的父母只是月入过万的知识分子家庭,但他们还是咬咬牙,把多年的积蓄掏出来,供儿子一搏。
昂贵的费用,难以阻挡中国家庭送小孩到国外的欲望。在美国一些昂贵的寄宿私立学校,中国学生比例超过20%,已经成为家常便饭。旅美学者薛涌认识一个高中留学生,学校在美国一个穷乡僻壤,刚进去的时候,中国学生才20%,等毕业的时候,中国学生已经超过80%。
位于俄勒冈的圣玛丽中学,初中、高中加起来不过450人,但中国学生(基本都集中在高中)就已经有70人,“随着中国学生的来临,学校财政马上走出了困顿。”《华尔街日报》如是评述。
陈小天的父亲陈栋发现,很多不如自己的工薪朋友,一样不含糊,他们之所以这么做有两个原因。一个是父母属于70后,普遍独子,挣钱不给孩子用给谁用?另一个,连吃带住含学费,40万人民币,不见得比在国内选择好学校高多少。送走之后,父母可以全身心放在工作上,两相一比,也不算高消费。

但是要想读比较好的学校,不是有钱就能摆平的,有些高中,入学甚至比考哈佛还难,中国的孩子们在另一个体制里仍不免激烈竞争。美国排名前二三十的寄宿高中每家每年从中国招生不超过六个,加在一起不过一百多人,但是一年提出申请的有1万多人。
宋雨晨念的高中就位于全美前20名之列,一个年级有一百多人,每年只在中国招4个学生,对托福和SAT的成绩要求很高,还有重重面试。她当年申请了8所学校,最终花落此校。
2007-2014 年中国低龄留学生(高中+本科)的十大去处。 (曾子颖/图)
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制度和现状逼人走
“为了让您读美国名校更容易。”这是一家高中留美中介的广告。美国大学申请的竞争早在十年前就已经白热化,于是,为日后申请名牌大学做准备,成为早期中国孩子赴美读高中的主要动力。反正最终目的都是常春藤,那不如早一点去美国读高中,录取的几率会更大。
但是随着时间的推移,出去的原因变得越来越复杂。真正让陈栋下定决心送儿子出国,却是一次偶然事件。初三上学期学化学,儿子第一次考试考得很烂,搞得陈栋莫名其妙,儿子陈小天说,他也不知道为什么,反正上课听不懂。直到陈小天母亲到学校开会,谜底才揭开。
老师回她:班上小孩都上过补习班,就你小孩没上,基础的内容补习班上都讲过了。
回想起来,陈栋觉得这件事只是一个导火索,最根本的原因,在于他不想让儿子成为应试教育流水线上的统一零件。陈小天所在的学校规定中午必须睡午觉,他不爱睡,看了会书,老师就让他罚站。老师讲课有时候幽默了一把,大家一阵哄笑,别人都停了,陈小天还接着笑,老师也罚站,说他影响课堂纪律。
“该严管的地方不管,不该管的地方瞎管。”陈栋说,这是他最为绝望的地方。“不管以后干什么,什么都要学,这不是浪费人生吗?”
还有的或许不是因为考试,只是不想让女儿过一种庸常的人生。王夏的女儿王思菡正在新西兰一所中学念高二,出国前,她是北京海淀一所知名中学的学生。担任国企高管的妈妈小日子过得悠哉,常有一种一眼就看到生命尽头的感觉。如果女儿还在国内,她现在就可以预见未来:考上一所名牌高中,进名牌大学,结婚生子,王夏和爱人帮着带外孙……
王夏说,她不想女儿跟她走一样的人生。
宋雨晨一开始从未想过出国。初三模拟考不是第一就是第二,按照惯例,肯定会被推优到上海的四大名校读高中。但在最后时刻,她被刷了下来。老师的解释是:你初二动了手术,没上体育课,没体育成绩就没法推优。但父亲宋彬打听下来的原因可能是,在推优前没有跟老师“走动走动”。
父亲宋彬虽然身家过亿,但不爱走后门这一套。宋雨晨心一横,如果能考上四大名校就上,考不上就去美国,结果没发挥好,就考了个市重点。
以前父亲宋彬总还觉得可以跟体制抗衡,但是慢慢发现,体制可以对抗,但无法对抗的是生活本身。“雾霾,三聚氰胺,治安环境,大人还可以勉强忍受,小孩子怎么可以?”宋彬曾一度有过移民的想法,但这意味着要放弃国内的事业和朋友,他放不下,那就先早点送小孩出去吧。
04
我跟他们不在一个频道上
宋雨晨第一年回来,宋彬差点没认出来是谁,因为女儿晒成了个黑人。父亲问,是学习不好被罚晒太阳了吗?女儿答,打网球打的。

让父亲吃惊的是,从小不爱运动的宋雨晨现在几乎成了一个运动达人:棒球、游泳、击剑、赛马样样都通。虽然只是学校棒球队的替补,但每次比赛,教练还是会让她上场打一会。即便发挥糟糕,教练也总是鼓励:雨晨,你打得很棒,加油。
“别人的鼓励很容易有成就感,当一个人有了成就感之后,才会成为兴趣。”父亲宋彬努力回想,宋雨晨从小的爱好乏善可陈,钢琴可以算是一个,那还是父母逼迫之下的产物。
有大把时间运动,全拜美国高中制度所赐:课余运动也算学分。一个学期有十几门课让你选择,只要任选五门即可,不喜欢物理,可以选化学,不喜欢化学,可以选烹饪。
如何融入美国文化,对于中国小留学生来说是一个非常大的考验。如今已经在纽约一家咨询公司工作的吴界立,是2007年来美国念高中的。刚来美国之初,最头痛的就是如何融入美国文化。
国际学生基本上住在一块,很少主动会跟美国本土学生聊天,半年之后,发现美国社会是开放的,才慢慢走出这一步。还有一开始课上都不敢发言,生怕老师批评,后来能回答的时候就回答,老师也会慢慢喜欢你。
李月月迈出这一步的方式靠的是走读,跟美国家庭的小孩同吃同住,跟白人玩,也跟黑人混,暑假的时候还把美国男孩带到中国。李月月是初三那年去美国的,今年念高二。因为个子不高,以前很不自信,去了美国之后,不仅参加了校队,还帮助校队在州的比赛中夺冠。
今年暑假回来,李月月参加了初中同学聚会,张瑞问他跟同学聊得怎么样,他就说了一句话:我跟他们不在一个频道上。“同学老是在比较成绩,我关心以后想做什么,学生会会长如何竞选,舞会如何安排。”
观察儿子朱赫这两年在美国接受的教育,朱大民感触颇深:“美国学校里教的和社会中考察的是一致的,而中国的中学教育是说一套,做一套!”朱大民发现,道德品质和主流价值观的熏陶其实贯穿着美国的教育体系,但和中国的思想政治教育不同,美国的思想教育让孩子非常愿意接受。
“在中国,教室里教你要遵守交通法规、尊老爱幼、真诚诚信,但你出门不会这样做。到社会上只要不犯罪就行,尔虞我诈又怎么样?”朱大民认为,中国教的和做的有极大反差,而在美国,学校里教孩子要诚信,社会生活中也有个人的诚信记录与之匹配,一旦违反规则、不诚信,整个社会系统都会有反映,违规者要付出实在的代价。
朱大民相信,没有人天生就有社会责任感,天生懂得要为社会大多数人利益服务,而美国的教育体系用紧密联系的学校教学和社会实践教会孩子这一点。“在中国教育体系里面,我们的孩子暑期里玩命地上补习班、玩命做题,教出来以后就做题特别棒,收拾家务、孝敬父母都不会,你还让他去爱国、有社会责任感?”
还有两年,王思菡就要高中毕业了,她的目标是新西兰最好的大学奥克兰大学。在新西兰待久了,再回到北京,觉得这里就是一个光秃秃的水泥城市。至于未来,她说等拿到绿卡之后再选择。
精英阶层小孩的离开,并没有给贫穷的小孩留下任何机会。陈小天的学籍依然在学校保留着,他只是申请休学,如果在英国不适应,他还有退路可走。“中国的体制是出来容易,回去很难。”父亲陈栋说。
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