If you were Italian and somebody called you a “Wop”‚ what would you do? If it were me I would feel very angry and offended. In the essay “I Just Wanna Be Average” being called a “Wop” or being physically abused happened frequently. Written by Mike Rose‚ he shows us how badly he was treated by his teachers in high school. In the beginning of this essay‚ Rose describes how his teachers treated him in his early years of high school. Rose’s choice of phraseology when characterizing his teachers is
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Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average” essay makes me mad‚ but‚ at the same time‚ it makes me realize how lucky I am. I had never been in a special program‚ so I never thought about the students who were in those programs. Actually‚ my school had the kind of vocational track that the essay introduced‚ but I didn’t care about them because I wasn’t part of the track. Therefore‚ I really didn’t know that the students who were in that kind of special programs could be lost their identity due to poor instruction
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Michael Moore’s “Idiot Nation” has some intriguing ideas and concepts. Though no matter how much I want to‚ I can not say I agree with them as a whole. I really find most of them to be the just ramblings of a burned out student‚ who is making excuses for his failures. Furthermore‚ I feel he should stop complaining and go back to college. There are; however‚ three statements I do‚ at least partially‚ agree with. I do agree that teachers are under appreciated‚ that schools are in pathetic shape and
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this move would help further increase the success of our nation. In the story “Idiot Nation” written by Michael moore‚ his opinion is opposite of most americans‚ he believes this nation is filled with idiots‚ thus the title of his story‚ Idiot Nation. I do agree with Michael moore on most of his opinions. Most of the people in this nation are in fact idiots‚ as Michael moore addressed them to be‚ but not everyone in this nation are idiots. The nation’s poor educational system and the students not
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article “Idiot Nation”‚ Michael Moore‚ discusses about the cultural illiteracy in America‚ and how most of population in America are unintelligent due to the poor education system that was made by idiotic leaders in our idiotic nation. Moore further develops this belief by telling the reader that “It comes as no surprise to foreigners that Americans‚ would elect a president who rarely reads anything including his own briefing papers and thinks Africa is a nation‚ not a continent‚ An idiot leader of
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Michael Moore’s article‚ "Idiot Nation" complies with Mike Rose’s article‚ "I just want to be Average."; since both articles‚ state that the education or intelligence level of scholar in America‚ are very low. This decreasing level of intelligence‚ in scholars; is caused by the incompetence‚ the instructors comprehend; according to Rose‚ and Moore. One instance of the instructor lacking the proper training; is shown when Rose‚ states; "Sophomore English was taught by Mr. Mitropetros...He had little
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School‚" by Lynda Barry and " ’I Just Wanna Be Average‚ ’" by Mike Rose‚ are two essays concerned with children and the way a school system affects a child ’s life. Barry and Rose use situations in their own life to help readers understand their point of view. The responsibility of parents‚ the assertiveness of their teachers‚ and the way they used their unique situations to help solve problems in our fallible society. Parents can have a profound effect on a child ’s interaction with society because
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and active life. However‚ his dreams of creating a perfect and equal school have not been realized until today. In the passage of Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna be Average”‚ he displays his personal experience as a student who was mistakenly put through the rigorous journey of Vocational Education and how he struggled through his education endeavors. Similarly‚ to Mike Rose‚ Jean Anyon’s “Social Class and Hidden Curriculum of Work” discusses how
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EDUCATION IN AMERICA I have chosen Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average” to discuss as I have felt this way many times over the years whether it was in school or in the work force. In "I Just Wanna Be Average" Mike Rose explains how he was placed in the "vocational education" program while he was in high school by error. He and his parents tried to even fix the situation‚ but it did not work. While in this program he began to learn some dead-end skills from his teachers that were often unprepared
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Mike Rose is a critically acclaimed writer and professor in the School of Education at UCLA and has won many awards for his work. In this selection called “I Just Wanna Be Average” taken from his book Lives on the Boundary‚ Rose offers his experience trudging through the standardized vocational education track. Through his own account‚ the author points out that society and even faculty within these schools label the students as “slow” leaving the students with an objective of
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