Essay for University English Writing Course

Reaching for the School Mark with Certainty

Students will float to the mark you set . I and the others in the vocational classes were bobbing in pretty shallow water . Vocational education has aimed at increasing the economic opportunities of students who do not do well in our schools

- Mike Rose , Lives on the Boundary

The word float from the line students will float to the mark you set by Mike Rose , I think perfectly describes my experience in Education (Rose 2009 . It seems to me that as I wade through my school years

, I was floating to a mark which I can barely make out , having the image of being reachable yet at the same unreachable . I believe that my own home life as well as the school system is responsible for the reachable and unreachable contradiction . My own home life , being raised in a single parent home , is characteristically hard . Aside from the fact that my mother had to work two jobs just to put food on the table , I had to endure her physical abuse brought about by stress and her own frustrations in life . To shield myself from such a generally turbulent home life , I had to transfer from one home to another , from one grandparent to another , like a ball toss to and fro which left me dizzy and shaken most times . This of course brought a nightmarish set up to my school life for I have to change school constantly . With an unstable family...