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Summary Of I Just Wanna Be Average By Mike Rose

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I Just Wanna Be Average

Mike Rose talked about his high school education and everything that went along with it. He starts off talking about how he was accidentally placed in vocational education due to a mix up of him and another student with the same last name. Although Rose was quite intelligent he was forced to sit in classes that were simplified and did not challenge him. Due to this fact he spent the first two years of high school paying more attention to the people around him than to his actual school work. He talks about each of his friends that shared the vocational classes with him and how they got into trouble and how they steered him in the wrong direction. Sometimes he helped his friends cheat so that they could receive better …show more content…

every student has a right and a chance to reach their maximum , also to have their own expectations.Rose states that every student should be responsible for their own education but teachers should set a higher standard for students.”Students will float to the mark you set” (Rose , page 2).Rose is an award winning author, and educational expert , but at one point he was just like every other student …show more content…

he began to cheat and dumb himself down.Some may believe that separation of money and social class has a direct effect on educational success.Mike Rose gives us an example of going from rags to riches. He benefited from a person who took personal interest in him. Mike Rose, a at- risk student had a teacher who goes above and beyond and mentors him. “Jack MacFarland couldn’t have come into my life at a better time.My father was dead and I had logged up too many years of scholastic indifference.”(Rose,page 5)Not everyone has the opportunity to receive an equal education but can strive to become greater .Children from poor families are at a much lower advantage but does not mean that they can’t succeed in what they plan to do they just need someone to believe in them.People do not choose to be poor and instead of getting equal or similar help they are limited by the opportunities allowed or denied them by a social and economic

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