In Class Quickwrite 9/5/13

                While reading about Rodriguez literate life, I found some similar aspects in my own literate life. My parents were always very supportive in my schooling, they knew, like Rodriguez’s parents knew, that a way to a good future was a good education. My mom has her high school diploma and some credits in college but she mainly took over and learned from my grandma on how to be a paralegal. She has a very good job but there is no way I could ever get a job like hers without a degree now a days. Kind of like Rodriquez’s mom, she had experience rather than an education. My dad came to America after graduating high school in Canada. A couple years later he graduated from SJSU and later on went back to college online to get a marketing degree. Because my dad did so much schooling, he expects me to do the same.

                Yet even with my dad’s education and my mom’s experience, they still could not help me with my homework. Which I almost felt a little good about; I knew something they didn’t know. My parents never had to check that I did my homework or wonder if I did badly on my tests. They knew that I would get my stuff done and if I was having a hard time, I would tell them.  I prided myself in getting good grades and having my parents proud of me so I did what I had to in school to make that possible. So when it came to getting good grades in high school to eventually get into college, it was all up to me. I could have slacked in school and just simply passed my classes to go to the JC in town or I could have strived to make it to a four year university and my parents would have been proud either way. My older brother went the JC path in hope of playing football, as I went the more educational pathway and made it to a four year university. This reminded me a little of Rodriquez and his parents. They seemed to be proud of him just as long as he was getting an education, like his siblings were. But he strived to go to that better, higher elite school. Everyone takes different pathways based on what’s better for them and works for them.  I’m just so thankful that my parents would have supported me in whatever path a chose.