Summary Of I Just Wanna Be Average By Mike Rose

Summary of “ I just wanna be average” by Mike Rose Getting good grades, becoming a star athlete in a sport team and landing a good scholarship into a prestigious college are things that a normal high school student have in his or her high school’s list of goals. To Mike Rose, those goals were just cliques that high schools ought to amplified. In his article “I just wanna be average,” Mr. Rose had demonstrated the life of a vocational students and his view of a mediocre future. Mr. Rose was placed into the vocational track because of an unfortunate error. He had to stay there for two years. In that period of time, he had developed many thoughts on the aspect of vocational education and how it has been portrayed in the educational

Dave Snyder, a jock that loved to be a fool while embracing his independence in a certain level of maturity; Ted Richard, a baseball enthusiast who often had philosophical questions; and Ken Harvey a car enthusiast who strike up the memorable quote: “I just wanna be average.” Mr. Rose observed the unique traits that these young men possessed during their time in vocational school and drew an reasonable explanation for the scrutiny that many vocational students have to endured. He admits that high school is overwhelming to some extent. Teenagers try to find their identity and their voices in this new world that defies most of their assumptions and expectations while letting their emotions run wild. Kids like the author will be seen having this negative images of a “slow” student that can not understand basic knowledge. Eventually, they are forced to conform to mediocrity and rejecting “intellectual stimuli”. Their view of the future are limited to the view of an “average Joe”due to the fact that their curriculum are only use to

As time went by, the author had luckily got transferred to a college prep program since one of his teacher found out the error in his document. As he approached the new frontier, Mr. Rose could not keep up with some of his classes. Beside that fact that his father passed away during this period, the author complained about the repeating pattern of knowledge that he was taught. It made him feel discouraging and did not bring a sense of challenge into his study progress. Mr. Rose suggests that these “remedial classes” just give the students the students excuses to not reevaluate and learn from their repeated mistakes on a certain subject. These students will just rely on their inadequacy of knowledge to conform to mediocrity and get sidetracked in their path. This is why the creativity in lesson plans is an essential requirement for any teachers. Textbooks will only bring one perspective to a matter, formulas and definitions will become less exciting if they are only understood in one way. Still, there are teachers that devote their time to excite their students brains on these seemingly boring knowledge, one example of them are the author’s senior English teacher, Mr Jack McFarland. The author