Back To School: Who We Are: Portraits From An Urban Community College By Mike Rose

Getting an education, might not be easy for some as, for others. In the book, Back to School: Who We Are: Portraits from an Urban Community College, Mike Rose discusses the struggles an urban students face, the benefits of being a privilege student, and how students are being taught. He states that many students have difficulties, which makes it harder for them to focus on school when they have other problems to deal with. Although many students struggle with achieving a career, they know that everyone needs to make scarifies to be able to accomplish their goals. However, the most important key to become a successful student is being motivated, everything that we do require motivation. Often time, people don’t have the motivation to success

There are students who are lucky enough to say that they have extra help when need it. As Rose notes, “these two boys are learning a lot at home that is directly related to academic success, and their parents – and the people they hired – provide an entire program of (technologically rich)”, these boys are more than lucky when it comes to needing extra help they have every helping hand that they need (p.87). There are some who have every type of support, while others have no type of support, therefore it’s a bit harder to succeed. A child of privilege has extra tutoring, their own computer and room, parents are educated, have special summer academic programs, and get to travel overseas for more resources. All these characteristics are important, because it helps students with knowing more resources. Having educated parents means having good role models, which helps and guide their children to pursue an education since they have more motivation. The advantage of having educated parents means that they know the importance of education for their children, so they make education their first priority. However, having uneducated parents means it’s a bit harder to get help from, their resources would be teachers or the library books. Often times people who have uneducated parents don’t have support, and have less motivation to go to school. Parents who are not educated find it difficult to help their

Every child is entitled to choose their own path, however I decided to choose the wrong path. In middle school, I decide to hang out with bad influences. I believe that almost every child wants to be known and gain popularity in middle school. Well speaking for myself, I want to be popular, which mislead me to not focus in school. I didn’t care about school nor teachers, it came to a point I wouldn’t do my work nor homework. Teachers didn’t seem to care; whether I was doing my work or not. Teachers didn’t show interest much on who those, who wouldn’t do their work, instead it was better for them since grading was much easier. I didn’t learn much, I had poor reading and writing skills. I had poor grades, therefore, I didn’t get the chance to graduate. Not to mention high school was the worst I attend 3 different schools, changing schools so often led to missing a whole semester. I went to school at John Marshall High school, were classes were over crowded, therefore it’s hard for teacher to give student individual attention. Most of my classes would hardly give out homework, teachers would always be in a bad mood; which made it harder to ask for help. The second that I attend was Centennial High School in Corona, it seemed that this school care about their students, classes as a few students, we only had one lunch there was no nutrition break. Centennial every sport to join such as; swimming class, wrestling, track,