Conformity In Public Schools

“ You still need to take a performing arts class or you won't be able to graduate,” has been told to every high school student at least once in their academic career. The public high school system is very “bossy” if one looks at it in a certain way. Students are forced to take mandatory classes and follow a structured school day to a point where students are oppressed by conformity, and conformity is supported more by the schools than student individuality that should be supported by schools. Many of the classes that are required in high school aren't even beneficial to some of the students future careers. Students are required to take a performing arts class like band, art, and/or choir to graduate,but that isn't advantageous for a student who wants to major in business or medical school. Public schools are forcing students to take classes that aren't beneficial to some students and classes that the student don't want to take. Schools expect students to get grades in classes that students are miserable in which prevents students from expressing their individuality. The picture shown in Source F, shows a music instructor holding a baton while
These schools have claimed that one of their goals is to help student gain personal fulfillment, yet it's hard to do so when a student’s school day is scheduled like as if it was a prison. In Source B, the bell schedule shows that students are only given four minutes between class. Four minutes isn't enough time for the students to socialize. It's ironic because schools encourage conformity in order for a students to become more sociable. To explain the prison analogy more thoroughly, as Source E states, children have a mandatory twelve year school sentence like a prisoner without the possibility of parole. A child being constricted of the use of their time diminishes the creativity and spontaneity that helps flourish a person's individuality