Reflection Essay

“Snap, the sound of my heart shattering as I saw the research paper I put my soul into was handed back”. My mind couldn’t contemplate the splatters of failure I was witnessing. How could I have failed such a massive assignment? I spent months of effort improving every factor in my research paper for English. My blood felt as it was boiling in a desire to scream words of profanity at the man who didn’t even look at it and just put a flat out fail. When I first met this teacher thought he was just a tough critic, but is it something more? This teacher is failing every brown skinned student in the class. Has are educational system suffered from discrimination, because other teachers have talked about him at the teacher’s lounge about his last employment of how he got fired for insulting a student with slang. I worked hard for my high school diploma at first as a way to escape the escape the hardships of the world, then later in hope to achieve a degree in computer engineering. Every step I took I faced a tougher challenge, first it was the ability to work with others, now it is the teacher of my English class in my senior year.

He was also very similar to rose mike’s experience with teachers being commonly bored with students. He assumed that “public schools turned students into addicts”. (Gatto158). I believe it’s the discrimination that causes it, because in chowchilla it is hard to get out of that town unless you graduate high school there’s a saying among students their “one in chowchilla you’re bound to chowchilla”. This has happened to students, a close friend mine through all my school years dropped out his senior year and never finished high school, is unemployed and has no job. He told me it’s hard to simply get out of this town and wished he finished high school. When I asked him on why he dropped out he replied “Many of my teachers disliked my Jewish heritage and gave me a hard