Scholarship Boy Richard Rodriguez Summary

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A scholarship boy is technically defined as a student who is extremely talented but is changed by the school environment. This doesn’t mean that they are failing every class but it also doesn’t mean that they are getting straight A’s. Rodriguez claims that he is a scholarship boy very early in his writing. By him saying this he is saying that he didn’t know how well he was at school. Sometimes he thought he was very talented and other times he thought he was not good at school at all. Being changed by the school environment means that what you are saying because of the banking concept sways your point of views. This means that you are supposed to listen to exactly what the teachers have to say and have your own input whatsoever. “I found

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