Mike Rose Questions

Mike Roses narrative was way more confusing to read than the others. I am not the best at reading, I did my best to understand it. It was definitely different than the others.

1.  Describe Rose’s life in Voc. Ed. What were his teachers like? Have you ever had experience with teachers like these?

His life in Voc. Ed all seemed very interesting, so random and different with the teachers he had to the friends he made. He of course was placed in a lower education which is unfortunate but he also had a memorable experience going to that school.

Mike Rose’s teachers seemed to be terrible. They would treat you poorly and not act like teachers really at all. I would also say that they all were pretty random as compared to one another.  They would punish there students and didn’t show to have any self control with their students. The teachers also didn’t show to care about their education, which is ridiculous. No matter what school you go to you should care about students education and don’t punish them in outrageous ways.

I have never really had any teachers of this sort, that punishes this terribly, not that I recall.

2.  What did Voc. Ed do to Rose and his fellow students? How did it affect them intellectually, emotionally, and socially? Why was it subsequently so hard for Rose to catch up in math?

I believe it affected them in so many different ways. For some students it might have not been the right environment for them. Students ended up not wanting to do the work by the way they were treated and once they found out what the teachers and that school system thought of them. That they were “slow” and that they might not go anywhere in life. These students just felt like they should cheat and not fully take the time to understand the problems.

3. Why is high school so disorienting to students like Ken Harvey? How does he cope with it? What other strategies do students use to cope with the pressures and judgments’ they encounter in school?

Ken Harvey shows that he stuggles a lot and would fall behind in his education. High school was really hard and there was a lot going on, he was a person that would get sidetracked in all the other crap that went on in high school. They would fear all the hard things and get involved in a lot of things that did not matter. To cope with these sorts of things you just have to try and set all the “crap” beside and focus on whats best for you and have good faith that you will do well. He realized that you had to fight your fears basically. That is all to the best of my knowledge from my past and from the reading,

4. Rose explain in paragraph 16 that high school can be a “tremendously disorienting place”. What, if anything, do you find disorienting about college? What steps can students take to lessen feelings of disorientation?

College is way more laid back than high school. I find it less hard that I was expecting but I am also going to just a community college. The only thing I trouble with is time management. I go to school and work two jobs so it is really hard to make time for homework. I can fall behind very easily. Time management is one of the biggest steps a student can take to become successful in college because college students always have something else going on in life such as two jobs like myself. Also all students have to study and work really hard.

5. How does your experience of education compare (or contrast, or both) to Mike Rose’s?

My experience seems to be very different but yet similar to his. I never had to go to a vocational school, I was never really considered “slow” but I did have to take some extra classes throughout my schooling in elementary and middle school that gave me additional help in reading or math. I also never had any trouble with teachers and punishment. I always loved most of my teachers. That would be the just of it, I could go on and on how my experience with education my whole life differs from Mike Rose’s.