This might affect abilities that have nothing, ostensibly, to do with appearance: if handsome kids get all the attention from teacher, why would they not do better at school?

这可能影响到看起来与相貌完全无关的能力：如果漂亮的孩子得到老师的全部关注，他们在学校里自然会表现得更好。

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But the question on the minds of residents here is: Why do school officials not have more discretion in such cases?

但是，这里的居民的问题是：为什么学校在这样的事件上不多用一点判断力呢？

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Why not a military training school to do?

为什么不是一入学就军训呢？

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The reason why there are few former state-school pupils at Oxford and Cambridge, they suggest, is that they do not get good enough exam results.

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