Tutoring at Easley have further my understanding related to Mike Rose about kids in his book “Living in the boundary.” Easley has shown me the sad reality that we’re still facing in our education system. Mike Rose has emphasized of inequality in public school system. As I can see at Easley, most of the students come from poor neighborhood where it’s lack of funding and bureaucracy’s affect on the public educational system. Most of time when I was tutoring, kids have to copy all the questions from their workbooks and answer the questions in a separate paper instead having their own workbook to write on and carry with them. I asked why, and one of the students told me that they’re not supposed to write on it because they have to return them back at the end of school year so the school can reuse it for next school year. Sometime, half of the time in my tutor section was to wait for kids to just copying their questions. This emphasizes unprepared teaching in school system. In addition, teachers are unable to encourage the students to seek for higher education. They are not giving out enough imagination to motivate kids. When being asked for what they want to become in the future, I received a lot answers that are like “ I just hope to be like my mother, a hairdresser” or “I hope I can make money like my dad. He fixes cars.” With their background’s influence, most of the kids do not want to work hard, instead they just want to be “average.” They see their parents as their role models. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. However, a more professional career seems to be impossible for them and they are afraid to dream big. They limit themselves in a zone of what they can do and what they like to do.
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