Mike Rose Response Questions

1.
Mike Rose had a life in vocational education not unlike that of many children in American schools. His lazy indifferent unauthoritative teachers lacked any sort of teaching skills that a group of children like that would need. His life in vocational ed was in a short description wasteful. He did nothing of use while in the program except maybe learn how to procrastinate and demean teachers. I have indeed experienced teachers like this before. Unfortunately, it has ruined me. My teacher didn't challenge his students. He let us do whatever we wanted and had an open book test once a week. a couple months into the year he left the class and moved to another state. We as a class were stuck with a different substitute teacher every week for the remaining eyar. needless to say we didn't learn anything. I was given an a and sent to the next level of that class which I of course failed out of and ruined my high school career. It was an abomination. I wish I could go back in time and do something to change all of this, maybe because I was young and excited about an easy a, I didn't force myself to learn. That sort of discipline should not be left in the young hands of a 15 year old.
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Vocational Ed made Rose and his fellow students further fall into the trap of being incompetent. the idea that they are lazy o good for nothing, was further institiuted by being treated the way they were. Later on in his math career it seems Rose has a hard time learning how to enjoy school and he already has thought himself a failure.
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Ken harvey seems to be a kid with a very different view of life. He doesn't want much, "to be average" is his main goal. with so many pressures in high school a kid like him is pushed into being more than average or exceptional. He copes with it through his "I don't care attitude" By taking everything that he fears, like all the school work and brushing it off that he doesn't care about it. A lot of kids use this same method, some kids use drugs and cliques as a coping mechanism. While still others deal with the pressure and succeed.
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The only thing I find disorenting about college is the day care. I hate leaving my son at night with a day care. I hate that I work a full time job and see my son on average an hour a day during the week. I keep telling myself that it is for the best but it gets harder and harder to drop him off.  There are no steps to take to lessen this. I just have to deal with it until my husband returns from deployment and can watch my son at night while I go to school.
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I think my experience of education compares only in a small amount. I had one bad experience and while I have never been in a remedial math or vocational educaiton plan, I can attribute the feeling of inferiority that that teacher gave us to the same feeling Mike Rose had. It is not a good feeling and I can't imagine anyone feeling that way their whole school career.