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    I Just Wanna Be Average” By: Mike Rose Summary: In the story “I Just Wanna Be Average” the author Mike Rose argues that society very often neglects and doesn’t see the full value and potential of students. As a student you’re not the only that is frustrated. Rose explains how even dealing with the issues and difficulty of a highly respected professor you can still somehow find comfort as a student and learn to deal with the issues of the professor in your own way. Rose also

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    Analysis In this summary I will target the Jr high and high school audience. I feel each of them should hear this because this is the time they are deciding to go or not to go to college. I feel each of them need to feel important at this time because they have low self of esteem and they need to believe they too can do anything they put their minds to. I hope to influence a few of them to go for it become what they want to be not what someone else see for them. I wish this was a book that

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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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    I Just Wanna Be Average" MIKE ROSE Mike Rose is anything but average: he has published poetry‚ scholarly research‚ a textbook‚ and two widely praised books on education in Amer­ica. A professor in the School of Education at UCLA‚ Rose has won awards from the National Academy of Education‚ the National Council of Teachers of English‚ and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Below you’ll read the story of how this highly successful teacher and writer started high school in the "vocational

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    succeed‚ than they shouldn’t bother to study. In the essay “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose‚ he talks about his time spent in the vocational track and how he began to lose interest in all subjects and began to loath

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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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    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 wanting to become just average in order to make up for their presumed sense of inadequacy given

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    I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose is an excerpt from his book Lives on the Boundary about his time in Our Lady Mercy High School’s education system. He went into Vocational education because of a mix-up in his tests with another student. With this mix-up and teachers who would not put in the effort to help him succeed occurring‚ Rose lost all motivation in studying in his classes. Rose finally found a teacher who cared about his success in school and helped Rose get back into regular college-prep

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    everyone? One could argue that all teachers have to do is care. There’s a disconnect in the world today between the moderately literate‚ the most literate‚ and those that are just left behind. America’s educational system is deeply flawed and a perfect example is a very eye opening short story called “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose(1989). Mike Rose explains his short stint in the Vocational track ‚ where kids go who can’t quite make it in America’s public schools.The only reason why Rose

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    Summary: In the story "I Just Want to be Average" by Mike Rose‚ Rose‚ talks about his his past schooling experience and how his experience at Mercy nearly ruined him as a student. He narrates his story of his peers in the vocational learning classes and how his teachers responded or failed to respond to their needs as students. The various situations Mike experienced all centered around one main thing and that was a lack of effort‚ by the students and teachers both. Response: This story is a really

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