When reading Why School? by Mike Rose, It got my attention from the start. The book started of by telling the story about Anthony, a man who had brain damage. Anthony enrolled in school because he wanted to get an education for himself and to help his daughter. Not many parents think about themselves and want to get educated, they believe that they need to work in order to support their family. Anthony was thinking beyond that, he wanted to educate himself in order to educate his daughter. By going to school, he was taught how to read and write and was able to help his daughter with the skills he acquired. Some parent’s don’t have a high school diploma or a degree, the reason being they couldn’t afford school or they had to drop out of school in order to work and support their family. I have a family friend who doesn’t know how to read and he is not capable of helping his young daughter with her homework because of this impediment. Today in our society students have to go to school and they can’t drop out until a certain age. If this was enforced back in the past many people would at least have the basic knowledge of reading and writing.
Education is very important for everyone as well as for me. I believe that everyone should get an education because it will help them in life. Education is a key to success, I believe this is true because people who don’t have the skills needed, have a harder time understanding and getting a career. Schools try and prepare us for the future and one way is by making us study and learn for tests such as the SAT and the ACT. We as students need to get a high score in order to get into a good school. “You can prep kids for a certain kind of test, get a bump in scores, yet not be providing a very good education” (48). Teachers try to teach us to score high on tests but all they do is make us remember things for the test but at the end of the day we wont remember what we actually learned. I am one of those students, I studied hard to remember the material for the tests, but now I just remember half of what I studied. Education has helped me grow as a person and a student. I don’t think school’s should focus on scoring high on tests but actually help the student learn.
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