Author: Brian Brown (Page 7 of 8)

In my 11th grade year, English class with my favorite english teacher Ms.Carr who happens to take her job very seriously. In school there’s a set of rules set to keep kids in check with Ms.Carr everyone knows she takes her job very seriously when it especially came to phones people had to really sneak their phones. If your phone was seen by Ms.Carr you would have to take it to the dean office where they’ll hold it till the end of day and no one likes doing that because the line to get your phone back be too long. Getting off track a little I know it’s always something happening in Ms.Carr class because it’s either I’m getting seat changed, getting a first reminder because I’m talking when I’m not suppose to, but Ms.Carr always worked with me to ensure I pass English III. Ms.Carr would make sure I finish my work if it came to homework annotations or finishing an essay due she was there to help. One day in class trying to behave I remember sitting in the front in the top right it was cold outside all the windows shut heater on. When class start it can get hectic because everyone starts talking and me wanting to show Ms.Carr I can behave  meaning no talking I let everyone else talk. When Ms.Carr puts her foot down everyone listens it’s time to do our Do Now for 5 minutes, which I finished already while everything was happening. As class is going on we have a class discussion about a chapter in the book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junior Diaz and one of the class discussion questions what is the sister doing in the book and I said “getting her cheeks clapped” out loud because the book is really explicit. When I said this my classmates started laughing and Ms.Carr heard what I said and told me “Brian that’s inappropriate go to the Dean office” I spoke back and was like “but that’s what happened in the book the sister was literally in the closet having sex”. I was confused at first and I believe as well I wasn’t in the mood when it came to English class lately because it was always something happening. Getting sent to the dean office some people like it and others don’t knowing how my mother is she don’t want phone calls at work from the dean about me gettin sent out of class this made me feel annoyed. At this point in my head saying “I’m getting sent out for some dumbshit” literally anywho I walk in the dean office and I’m told to sit down in one of the cubby sections. In the dean office there’s other kids in the their already that got sent out as well; Ms.McKenzie my favorite dean she tells to sit in the chair placed right next to her desk.She’s reading Ms.Carr sent regrading why I got sent out she started laughing right with the other dean Dean Rush.Ms.Mckenzie asked me “why you saying this in class” while laughing still she couldn’t believe I got sent out for that but I told her “if you read the book you’ll see what I’m talking about” and she asked to see where in the book it says the sister is having sex. I showed her and she said “I understand but next time don’t say those words” and “I’m saying it’s true words and I know that what was said what not the right place to say it. I’ll take a note when and where to say certain things”. So after me and Ms.Mckenzie mediation she called my mom because when you get sent out the dean calls your parent when she called my mom I already knew she was gonna be mad at the fact that I’m getting sent out. On the phone my mom is told what happened then the phone was given to me my mom asked “what happened?” I explained what was going on and she said “ you trying to make jokes and don’t try to justify what I did  wrong” I told her “l understood”. When everything was done and went back to where I was sitting this is where it hit me about the educative system that it could be made to control you and teach you how to use your words properly, which is understandable I just felt like Ms.Carr can sometimes take her job to serious I’m a junior we are mature to handle things said like that which we are because when I said the sister was getting her cheeks clapped ipthey laughed but not abruptly to the point it was distracting the class. Even when the period was done and I saw my friends they even felt like it was a drag to send me out. My point is to show you the system can sometimes discourage us when we can’t speak freely even if rules are applied not so strict.

Coming to my 8th grade year my mind shifted to a new state where I felt like the knowlegde being taught was irrelevant to life and wasn’t gonna teach the key aspects of life. I felt I was advanced to know this at an younge age only being 13 turning 14. My mother a key person in my life, also enhanced my awareness on this idea that school is a system used to control and keep people limited but you go through it to get to where you wanna be. And I’ve kept this mindset throughout high school and until now.

When I was sitting in History class I spoke to myself why are we learning this we’re being taught the past for what. Even in AP Gov & Politics being taught the law is useful but I wonder how is this gonna make me successful in life to make money. I really didn’t like school I just like being around my friends, but went through it to get that high school diploma and make my mom proud. Through my expierences I feel like college is a scam only if you are goin there to be a doctor, lawyer, nurse , or any other profession that requires a degree. I took trade school instead because I know it’s something valuable when you have that certificate under your belt and they make good money. We all know money isn’t important but we know this is the world we live in so we have to do what we have to do.

The educative narrative genre is a genre for me as a writer to explain how I understand the education system from the expierences I’ve went through. All the texts we’ve read “How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn, “Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing” and “The Fourth of July” have taught me how to use word choice, certain techniques, and how to include your expierences to connect with your reader. I want to start off with how I performed in the Uncommon Schools academia since middle school to the end of high school being 8 years. The education process is to get us to college and they did can’t lie. When I write my educative narrative genre I want the readers to understand my thought process and connect if they can which I believe they will. I wonder if the way i put things together will it make sense to the readers, I want my work tk criticized for me to become a better writer. As me skipping a grade this made me more advance for my reality and being the youngest in the class coming into middle school it was scary, but later on things seemed normal. I excelled in my class but I tend to get in trouble with the behavioral system that was stored like minus 1 or 3 demerits, or even autos if it was something really bad. Then had merits if you do good. I felt like it was placed to mold us to be like robots, but also did teach us values of when and where to do things. And it went all the way up to freshman year. Until quarantine hit…