Personal Narrative My Education

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Personal Narrative My Education Public school systems need to be more sensitive to their students. Parents play the major role in determining a child’s academic outcome, but the school system needs to notice children who don’t necessarily acknowledge their gift. These children need guidance -- I believe it is the schools’ responsibility to provide it to them. I have been through a situation that makes me feel strongly about the subject. My example is an indisputable case in point. Math is my forte. By the time I was six or seven, I fully comprehended the concept of variables and algebraic expressions. Its fascinating to me that when I pick up a math text book, as long as I can pick up on a concept that I have already seen, I can read and absorb all the material, even if the text is explaining concepts I haven’t yet been introduced to. Math is the language you use to talk to computers. My father raised me as a computer user. He taught me about the hardware inside the computer and he taught me how to write software. He knew that knowing how a computer thinks was big. Unfortunately, he never looked to them as a career. He would always tell me, though, that people were making fortunes with them, which is true. The average computer science degree pays $45,000.00 per year first year out of school. That’s bachelor’s, guaranteed, as long as you put together impressive software or technology while in school. Anyone, even a child, equipped with that insight should be able to find, if only abstractly, their purpose in life. What could go wrong? Thinking back to my compulsory education career, I remember having a discussion with my eighth grade math teacher. I asked him, "Do you think I can handle algebra?" His reply was, "You’re... ... middle of paper ... ...ed his advice. I had never watched a person sit in an office and figure out how many radians were in a 250-degree arc, but they do it. I don’t know what my teenage mind was thinking, but I didn’t realize it. Suggesting what schools should do to accommodate students like me is beyond the scope of this essay, but I will do my part to get in these high schools and find kids I can relate to. This is a goal in my life. Even if I help just one, it will be worth it. I hate to think that some bright child would loose out on their opportunity to achieve what they want from life just because nobody told them how to do it. I am going to make sure I take a piece of my time and bump as many kids as I can out of the path I was headed down. Based on the probability of me being here in school, six years after high school, I have to be luckier than 98.8 percent of the population.

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