My mind on education changed when I realized my life wasn’t really going anywhere and I want to be able to provide a better life for my children, provide them with everything I didn’t have growing up. Now I’m going through a divorce and I solely proved for my kids. Not too long after I got married and had my son and my daughter. I worked two jobs I ran from one job to the other with no days off the day I had off from one job I worked at the other. A lot of teachers I’ve had just read straight out of the textbook they lack the ability to interact with students.Īfter dropping out of high school I started working, for a lousy salary that honestly wasn’t enough to cover my bills.
Reading the article “I Just Wanna Be Average” By Mike Rose he states “But mostly the teachers had no idea of how to engage the imaginations of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pond.” I’ve felt like this often in school with teachers a lot of them lack the ability to help engage kids’ interest. I can’t blame the way things turned out solely on what my teacher said but I can say the way some teachers teach is faulty. I could have chosen to prove her wrong, but I didn’t instead I proved her right in what she said.
I could blame it all on my teacher and say that because of what she said to me as a kid changed the way I viewed school but that’s not really the case.
By then I decided to just drop out of school. I barley attended class and when I did it was to hang out with my friends, I got into a lot of fights, and got into a couple of arguments with several of my teachers and staff at school that I ended up getting kicked out of 3 different high schools I attended. I started hanging out with the wrong crowed and come high school I just continued the path I was going on. I went through something no child should ever really have to go through, and honestly it changed me as a person. I attended Montauk for my two remaining years of middle school. Several weeks after that conversation with my teacher I got into a fight and ended up getting switched schools to a school that was closer to my house. After that day I just really stopped caring about school all together. I remember her telling me ”you can’t just get by not putting in effort just because you’re smart doesn’t mean anything, I don’t see you even graduating from high school.” I remember me trying to brush it off and just walking right back into class like my teacher didn’t just tell me I was going to fail in my educational journey. When my English teacher pulled me out of the classroom and told me something that stayed with me through all my years in school. I was attending M.S 88 in Brooklyn NY going about my day gossiping with my friends in class the usual. There is a specific day in middle school that stands out to me. Middle school I would say was when everything changed not just the way I viewed education but my life in general. If I didn’t know you, I somehow managed to make you my friend by the end of the day. My teachers would move me to several different chairs in the classroom but that never really helped. For the most part though I gossiped with my friends in the back of the classroom. My elementary school experience was normal I think I mean I lived right up the block from my school so I would walk to school go to class and do my homework. Let me take you through my education journey. Now looking back, I wish I would have taken education more seriously. I partially viewed it that way because I had strict parents and I wasn’t really allowed out.
When I did go, I got into trouble often and mostly thought of school as a place to be able to see my friends and hang out. They came for me to be able to have a better education than the one they had and be able to pursue a career which is something they didn’t have the chance of doing. I didn’t have a passion for education, I barley went to school. Growing up I didn’t care for school or an education. Which now thinking about it shouldn’t have been how I viewed education because my parents struggled to come to America.