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Lives On The Boundary Analysis

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Mike Rose mentioned many claims throughout Lives on the boundary. He showed the reasons why students suffered, or failed in school. In this book, students were treated negatively because of their differences. Rose also showed how the expectations from society and teachers had negatively affect students and how students failures are due to carelessness of teachers. At the beginning of the book, Rose mentioned many students who suffered school for many reasons. He mentioned Laura, who took his English’s class four times and dropped it because of the fear of making mistakes. Laura’s story showed that teachers didn’t try hard enough to help students overcomes their fear, instead they let them suffered. He also mentioned Bobby, he was a star during high school but felt lost when he came to college. He wasn’t prepared well enough for college and couldn’t complete any of his assignment. The lack of preparation from his high school teachers had failed him. The score that show on Laura’s and Bobby’s test had isolated them from their classmates. The teachers didn’t try to figure out what happened to these kids, instead, they focus on the test score, and removed these kids from their classroom, put them …show more content…

I’ve seen several times in my classes from high school how teachers didn’t show any care to wether a student succeed or not. Some teachers even said rude comments and it made the students felt discourage. Without realizing it, teachers are the reason why students is failing. Many teachers didn’t realized that the way they taught students, had ruined students. There are kids who studied days and nights for a test, but still failed when it’s test time. Why? Because the materials they studied were nothing related to the test. Teachers didn’t realized their teaching style were wrong. They always said that it is the students fault that they failed, but it’s

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