How I Used Public-School
While reading the essay “I Just Want to be Average,” by Mike Rose, I noticed how his schooling experience was opposite of mine, there were similarities that lied within our home life, as well as coming from poverty and then making it in the end. During my time in high school, I had my own battles to fight every day, I was homeless, had a hard time finding the courage to make it through class and was stealing the bare necessities to make it week to week. I overcame this with sports, finding my own courage and believing in a school official who didn’t let me down. Eventually, I found my place in high school, despite how unpromising it looked for me in the beginning.
My grandmother raised me and when I was 11 she got …show more content…
There were the kids who had the money and the brains, all the new shoes and clothes and made the Honor Roll, but not all of them played sports, thank God. Rose confirms a suspicion I had of my own, that indeed “school can be a tremendously disorienting place.” Off the field or the court, whichever applied for the season, I didn’t have my place in class, I didn’t like going to school, because I felt I looked poor and I knew the poor kids got made fun of for their clothes and the all to well-known Payless shoes. What helped boost my confidence was being clean, I always washed my clothes and took daily showers. After gaining this confidence I changed my demeanor, I showed my confidence. Therefore, I made my place in class, I was the Dave Snyder, Rose spoke of and eventually I became well known in high school as an athlete and that was my own blessing. Different from Rose’s experience, where he defines the mentality of trying to adapt in the school system, requires altering yourself and sacrificing. He said, “The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work. You'll have to shut down, have to reject intellectual stimuli or diffuse them with sarcasm, have to cultivate stupidity, have to convert boredom from a malady into a way of confronting the world.” I did alter myself, I walked with pride after finding my confidence and fortunate for me I didn’t have to sacrifice myself in doing
While reading the essay “I Just Want to be Average,” by Mike Rose, I noticed how his schooling experience was opposite of mine, there were similarities that lied within our home life, as well as coming from poverty and then making it in the end. During my time in high school, I had my own battles to fight every day, I was homeless, had a hard time finding the courage to make it through class and was stealing the bare necessities to make it week to week. I overcame this with sports, finding my own courage and believing in a school official who didn’t let me down. Eventually, I found my place in high school, despite how unpromising it looked for me in the beginning.
My grandmother raised me and when I was 11 she got …show more content…
There were the kids who had the money and the brains, all the new shoes and clothes and made the Honor Roll, but not all of them played sports, thank God. Rose confirms a suspicion I had of my own, that indeed “school can be a tremendously disorienting place.” Off the field or the court, whichever applied for the season, I didn’t have my place in class, I didn’t like going to school, because I felt I looked poor and I knew the poor kids got made fun of for their clothes and the all to well-known Payless shoes. What helped boost my confidence was being clean, I always washed my clothes and took daily showers. After gaining this confidence I changed my demeanor, I showed my confidence. Therefore, I made my place in class, I was the Dave Snyder, Rose spoke of and eventually I became well known in high school as an athlete and that was my own blessing. Different from Rose’s experience, where he defines the mentality of trying to adapt in the school system, requires altering yourself and sacrificing. He said, “The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work. You'll have to shut down, have to reject intellectual stimuli or diffuse them with sarcasm, have to cultivate stupidity, have to convert boredom from a malady into a way of confronting the world.” I did alter myself, I walked with pride after finding my confidence and fortunate for me I didn’t have to sacrifice myself in doing