He took it upon himself to get to know his students the same way his teachers got to know him. He made home visits and spent more time with children who he felt needed more help, especially with a child named Harold. Mike Rose read Harold's school records twice to find out how other teachers rated Harold and the time spent with him. All the teachers kept saying that Harold was progressing slowly in school and didn't have much of an attention span. Rose took it upon himself 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: that of individual possibilities and that of environmental limits and determination. » Although Rose wasn't directly talking about Harold in this statement, I think it's a great sentence to reflect on. This statement means an awful lot throughout this chapter. This phrase, to me, proclaims that one's view of your actual possibilities is greatly affected by what others predict your possibilities can/should be. For example, in this text we are talking about Harold. Harold is not a stupid child, he can read and write, maybe not well, but he is capable of accomplishing these tasks. The test shows that Harold is not able to perform the tasks corresponding to grade level approval, so he is dropped.