I Just Wanna Be Average

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The k-12 educational experience of students can be affected by many factors. Two factors that affect a student's education is their socio-economic class and their race. The essay, "I Just Wanna Be Average" by Mike Rose, and other articles explain why students struggle in school due to their living conditions. Socio-economic class and race affects the k-12 education experience because of financial instability, poor communities, and living conditions in the home. Low income is one of the top issues that cripples a student's learning experience. Being part of a low income family can often affect a students way of thinking positive about their future. This unmotivates students to do well in school because of the inability to pay future tuition costs for higher schooling. According to the article, "The Affect of Socio-economic Status On Student Achievement" by Lucy Hart, she reasons that, "as low income socio-economic status students become aware of …show more content…
Parents who are low-income spend more time at work than at home which prevents them from spending time with their children. Jensen observes that, "Low SES (socio-economic status) children are often left at home to fend for themselves and their younger siblings while their caregivers work long hours... compared with their well-off peers, they spend less time playing outdoors and more time watching television and are less likely to participate in after school activities" (qtd. in Jensen 1). This means that students do not have time for after school activities or homework because of other responsibilities at home. These responsibilities causes the student to lose focus in school. Also, watching too much television prevents the child from practicing interaction and creating relationships with others at home or at

I Just Wanna Be Average Summary

reading the chapter “I Just Wanna Be Average” by author Mike Rose, I found it very hard to read the full chapter in one sitting. It was not because I did not like the chapter I just have a hard time focussing on one task for a certain amount of time. I would start, read page, then finally put it down and give up. I sat in a quiet room and there was no major distractions surrounding me like people, or a cellphone I just could not focus on reading the whole chapter at once.However, I finally was able to…

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Rhetorical Analysis Of I Just Wanna Be Average

J.M. Power always says, “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” And just like the quote portrays, Mike Rose’s essay “I Just Wanna Be Average” demonstrates his true realization as he experiences the importance of his education. By using a rhetorical device like aporia, as well as literary devices like pathos and ethos, Rose proves that everyone in society has a habit of overlooking the potential of students based upon their abilities, which can in turn…

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I Just Wanna Be Average, By Mike Rose

In the essay “ I Just Wanna Be Average” written by Mike Rose, he is extremely descriptive and informal in the sense that he doesn't clearly express his transitions between statements; Rose quickly blurs through the associations he has developed through high school while giving you a sense that he was going through his studies this way later revealing multiple reasons to his lack of luster, through his poor childhood experience it seems that only two people he has come into contact with have made…

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Mike Rose I Just Wanna Be Average Summary

his experience as student of working-class status gives him a considerable amount of ethos. As for his argument, I feel is the direct opposite of this selections title, ‘I Just Wanna Be Average’. Rose begins his narrative with his accident that leads him to his discovery. Having to fight like those whose destiny has been chosen gave him the perspective of those who strive just to be average. The reader was able to see through the different lenses of the working-class education. These lenses come in…

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Mike Rose I Just Wanna Be Average Analysis

Although I myself have not come into contact with a teacher that had no passion in what she or he did as a job. I have known of people that did not take education serious enough for them not to excel pass high school. But, I strongly believe that people can change and they can leave slacking off, partying, and getting into fights behind. They can better themselves as a student with the right aid and that right aid would call on teachers that can guide students in the right way and push them to excel…

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Summary Of I Just Wanna Be Average By Mike Rose

The article “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose shares a story of his time in vocational school, which is the lowest level of education. Even though he was put in vocational school by accident, he decided to stay. Here, he met many different students and talked about their personalities and traits. Although the students in the vocational school are delinquents, he was able to see through them and realized that they are more than their words and behaviors. Rose’s ways of thinking really changed…

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Teen Suicide

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American Public Education Essay

discouraging for him to be around and he mentioned that “the vocational track he was on, is most often a place for those who are just not making it, a dumping ground for the disaffected” (Rose, par. 159). He explains that his teachers acted like they could care less about teaching their students and instead use physical violence or a lack of lesson plans to control them. I personally believe that teachers today do not act this way. As a former high school student, teachers are encouraged to help their…

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Maya Angelou Graduation Speech

Celeste Montoya “This is the value of the teacher, who looks at a face and says there's something behind that and I want to reach that person, I want to influence that person, I want to encourage that person, I want to enrich, I want to call out that person who is behind that face, behind that color, behind that language, behind that tradition, behind that culture. I believe you can do it. I know what was done for me” -Maya Angelou. A teacher guides the future of the society. A person in his /her whole…

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Meritocracy In Canada

on individual ability or achievement rather than ones class or status. (Naiman, 2012, p. 218) However, after investigating social inequality and how a person’s positioning in the social categories of class, race and gender impact their opportunities, I feel compelled to make the argument that Canada is not a meritocracy…

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