Parental Involvement In Mike Rose's I Just Wanna Be Average

In schools there are many factors that come to play when determining how and what you are learning. Parental involvement helps because it motivates a child to take their work seriously to keep them on their toes, but it is not necessary. Students could go through school by themselves with their own motivation; they believe they could work hard, they believe they will succeed, they believe in the future that lies ahead of them, they believe in themselves, so they will do whatever they can to achieve that, but this is not always the case for every student. Students get or learn the attitude of success and the will of working hard from the atmosphere around them, whether it be constantly positive or constantly negative. Teachers play a big role in a student’s education because that is their job: to teach students, to get them an education.
In Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average” he tells his story on the bad education he received and the good education he received, the bad teachers he received and the good teachers he received. Rose explains a situation when he had a bad teacher, “He had little training in English so his lesson plan for his day work had us reading the district's required text, Julius Caesar, aloud for the