Neglecting of Students
Neglecting of students
In the story “I Just Wanna Be average” poetry, scholarly research, textbook, and book writer Mike Rose recounts his years in vocational track school. I agree with Rose’s views on teachers not valuing their students and them neglecting them as well. The sentence “I just want to be average” is what manifested this whole paper. Not an individual not a person at high standards but just average, Roses approach to this issue is very significant and formal. He fixates on this sentence because he then realizes that those in the vocational school were trying to be someone else instead of themselves. “Reject the confusion and frustration by openly defining yourself as the Common Joe” (Rose 3). The common joe was exactly what the students were trying to be.
Rose uses his own experience of being placed into vocational school because of a test mix up. He talks about his frustration of not being valued as an individual. He talks about his other classmates with great detail. His title came from his classmate Ken Harvey one day in religion class, he said the sentence that turned out to be one of the most memorable of the hundreds of thousands I heard in the Voc. Ed. Years. We were talking about the parable of the talents, about achievement, working hard, doing the best you can do, blah-blah-blah, when the teacher called on the restive Ken Harvey for an opinion. Ken thought about it, but just for a second and said (with studied, minimal affect), “I just wanna be average.” That woke me up. Average? Who want to be average? (Rose 3) Rose talks about how that sentence has stayed with him for years. “The vocational track, however, is most often a place for those who are just not making it, a dumping ground for the disaffected” (Rose 2). So throughout the whole story he tries to make it understandable of how that sentence connects with the education system and he does that by showing how the “disaffected” students are looked at.
As a matter of fact Rose was
In the story “I Just Wanna Be average” poetry, scholarly research, textbook, and book writer Mike Rose recounts his years in vocational track school. I agree with Rose’s views on teachers not valuing their students and them neglecting them as well. The sentence “I just want to be average” is what manifested this whole paper. Not an individual not a person at high standards but just average, Roses approach to this issue is very significant and formal. He fixates on this sentence because he then realizes that those in the vocational school were trying to be someone else instead of themselves. “Reject the confusion and frustration by openly defining yourself as the Common Joe” (Rose 3). The common joe was exactly what the students were trying to be.
Rose uses his own experience of being placed into vocational school because of a test mix up. He talks about his frustration of not being valued as an individual. He talks about his other classmates with great detail. His title came from his classmate Ken Harvey one day in religion class, he said the sentence that turned out to be one of the most memorable of the hundreds of thousands I heard in the Voc. Ed. Years. We were talking about the parable of the talents, about achievement, working hard, doing the best you can do, blah-blah-blah, when the teacher called on the restive Ken Harvey for an opinion. Ken thought about it, but just for a second and said (with studied, minimal affect), “I just wanna be average.” That woke me up. Average? Who want to be average? (Rose 3) Rose talks about how that sentence has stayed with him for years. “The vocational track, however, is most often a place for those who are just not making it, a dumping ground for the disaffected” (Rose 2). So throughout the whole story he tries to make it understandable of how that sentence connects with the education system and he does that by showing how the “disaffected” students are looked at.
As a matter of fact Rose was
References: Rose, M. (1989). I Just Wanna Be Average. Mike Rose