Mike Rose and Jean Anyon are two very bright writers that have similar opinions on things. Rose feels that wanting to be average is not a good thing, but everyone thinks it is. He feels that the school system has a lot to do with students coming to school bored, frustrated, afraid, and later failing. A friend of Roses, named Ken came up with a statement "I just wanna be average." (186) At first Rose didn't understand what he meant. But then he finally came to understand it. <Tab/>Most students today just want to be "average." They question, "why should I choose to be…