Summary Of I Just Wanna Be Average By Mike Rose

In the summary, “I just wanna be Average”, by Mike rose conveys his readers about some of his experiences throughout school. In truth, Mike Rose anything but average. In his freshman year, he got put into vocational program by accident. Even though by accident, he made the best of his situation. He then explains how his teacher resorted to verbal discipline to keep them in line. One of his teacher even insulted his name. Mike Rose went into detail on describing the people he met in school, ranging from the peaceful “hodads” to the jocks and the bullies. He wrote about how his teachers who could not care less about the students in the vocational program who were unenthusiastic about their job and did not believe that their students

He really enjoyed Biology class taught by Brother Clint and he did well in the class. He quote that even though experiments were hard the lecture were interesting. Rose's success in the class was a surprised to Brother Clint. He then checked the records and found out that the school made a mistake about his class placement. After some troubles, he finally got transfer to a more advance class. But, his mindset of the previous class also followed him there too. As he continues to struggle in the college prep class, he then adapt to the new pace and the work load, but the same learning methods for a college prep class. Eventually, he found his way into his life and tap into his true potential. In his English class, he met a teacher name, Mr. MacFarland, he is one of the good teachers that really changed Rose's perspective on school. Eventually they became close. MacFarland even persuaded Rose to get into a college. In one point of the story, when he wrote about his father's death before he met Mr. MacFarland, this writer thinks that Rose was really down in that point of his life and Mr. MacFarland picked the best time in entering his