Mike Rose Journal

Overall, Mike Rose is a good writer. He speaks his feeeling and views upon many topics that interest him, especially on education. I never heard or read of Mike Rose before, after reading his essay I was happy that I read his words.
In "I just wanna be average " Rose talked about his teachers and his experience in school. He describes his educational life how he was bored in some classes, such as history and shakespeare. He is even being honest that he fooled around in class and went to school with half a mind, meaning that he didn't put his full attention in school. He had teachers that were unprepared and incompetent, being that he went to a vocational high school. In a vocational school, means you must learn something outside of school that were better your chances in life. Since I went to a vocational high school, I graduated with not only a high school diploma ,but with a medical assistant certificate. I assumed that's the kind of educational experience ,one should recieve when they enter a vocational high school.
Rose says he took college prep courses, he claims " it was mixed blessing. I believe Rose was able to observe, learn and teach, from vocational and college prep courses. I think this one of the reasons why he became a successful writer, journalist and teacher. One of Rose inspiration could have been his teacher Mr. MacFarland who asked him where his going to college.Rose didn't know at the moment but his teacher helped with the process.
In a person's life ,their is always one teacher that a student admired. Rose had one who lead him to success, and I had one that belived in me and now I'm pursuing my goal into becoming nurse. I think Rose writes to inspire and speak of school reform. Also to show how going to school and listening to teachers was boring, yet he learned and went on to becoming a teacher himself. So this goes to show, you may never know what you may become in life, all we have to do is stay in school and learn as much as we can.