He took the initiative to get to know his students the same way his professors got to know him. He made home visits and spent more time with children he thought needed more assistance, especially a boy named Harold. Mike Rose read Harold's academic record twice to investigate how other teachers evaluated Harold and the time spent with him. All the teachers kept referring to Harold as having slow progress in school and not having much attention span. Rose took it upon herself to figure out how to help him and get him to open up and progress in his literary tasks. On page 114 Roses says: “…the conflict between two visions: one of individual possibility and one of environmental limits and determination” Although Rose was not directly referring to Harold in this statement, I think this is a great phrase to think about . This statement means a lot throughout this chapter. This phrase, to me, proclaims the view on what your actual possibilities are, they are heavily influenced by what others predict your possibilities can/should be. For example, in this text we talk about Harold. Harold is not a stupid child, he can read and write, perhaps not well, if he can do those tasks. The test shows that Harold is unable to do the homework up to grade level approval, so he is dropped