Individuality Vs. Conformity In The Public School System

As both the standards of school work and stress levels of student’s rise, the American school system remains unaltered, unchanged, and unaffected for over a hundred years. School is an institution that can serve as a massive gate in life granting you access to a job, stability, and a future or it can become a giant pillar in the way of everything you wish to achieve. While we recognize that a student’s own motivation, study habits, and will to learn, are cardinal in any schooling system, we must also understand the issues with an institution that is fundamentally unsound from the ground up. In today’s world, students are shoved with the hands of docility, and amenability as they render themselves in a system that has inadvertently failed them, by neglecting to celebrate their differences, and varying learning patterns. Conformity in the education system has shown to damage the personalization and

We conform to society by following the pack. Sadly, to say the reason why we conform to society is primary due to the reason of being petrified of being left behind, not loved, afraid of the opinions of others, and our true self. We value the outlook of others more than ourselves, for the reason that we want to fit in. We value cosmetics, the latest fashion trend, and luxury more than our true sense of love and freedom. Individuals of all ages are ball and chained to a standard which cannot be a hundred percent attainable by honesty no living being.Society will dictate our everyday life as a matter of fact, unless we take the stand and tell ourselves: the only sense of validation I need in my life is my own.

As a student, I am often troubled by the rigid routines of the school day, despite the fact that I am actually a very habitual person. The constant ringing of bells, lectures, bellwork, classwork, homework, each a daily practice throughout the school year. Although all of these components promote conformity, which will ultimately support the balance of school and societal norms, they also tend to threaten each student’s own unique characteristics. This then poses the question; to what degree should schools encourage conformity versus individuality? Certainly, a level of conformity is required to achieve a balanced society however, the overall structure of the school day and class, including the methods used to teach and mandatory classes,

Another reason I think kids should choose their own schedule is because, some students want to be in classes like band and not other classes. They might think "Mabey I can get into band if I change my schedule!". But they can't and then their dreams of being a musician will be crushed andd when their thanking thier teachers they won't thank you!! But

At Fond du Lac High School, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, there are classes that each grade is required to take. For example, every student is required to take four English classes, one per year. In addition to that, every student is required to take three science, math, and social studies classes. This hinders a student’s ability to further themselves along a potential career path by forcing them into taking classes that aren't needed. In order to fix this policy, three things need to happen. There needs to be more trade high schools, fewer required classes, and differently formatted school days.

I agree with the point that was made in the video about conformity that occur in the American education system. Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. However, conformity is not just acting as other people act, it is also being affected by how they act. it is acting or thinking differently from the way you would act and think if you were alone (pg 188). Nowadays people are choosing not to study they just want to be on the internet and be playing video games because they are conforming to the society new ways of not wanting to study or even finish school. Meanwhile, the best things is to be focus in school so you can have a good career. According, to the video, divergent

But to fix the problems and to serve the students we must first have a vision of what good education is (Ravitvch). What is a good education? A good education isn’t just learning and comprehending, a good education should also teach us how to work well with others, to use our common sense, to expand our range of friends and how we think. Now, what are the goals of a true education? The goals of a true education are learning how to work for yourself by yourself, to grow and adapt as a whole person, to build up your character, and to have a desire to learn more. If our schools were to meet the goals of a true education, it would leave us with a thirst for knowledge that leaves you restless at night, that only education can fulfill.

The public schooling system in America edifies the paramount of individualism. However, we do conform to a certain degree with rigid school timetables (as visually perceived in Source B) and compulsory classes. Although, America makes it indispensable for students to take compulsory classes as a way of conformity it still sanctions the students to express their individualism with our dressing, our cull of electives and extra Co-curricular activities. Students express their individualism with the habiliments they wear and the classes and the extra Co

Many students across the nation are attending schools that have seven classes during each school day as their schedule, one of them being Conroe High School. But behind the scenes, students are not exactly satisfied with these conditions, but they are forced to accept this brutal schedule as part of their everyday lives. That is why Conroe High School’s principal, Dr. Weatherly, should change the school’s schedule to have less, but longer, classes in a single day to create a less stressful environment for the students’ and teachers’ benefit.

School is never very exciting for most students, the day is long and most of the time very boring. I believe that the days are too long and should be changed.

It was the first day of school. I was eager to see most of my friends who I went to middle school with. There was one big thing that struck me; I noticed my friends changed. They started dressed differently, acted differently, changed their hair style, and even started wearing makeup. Since the transition fresh out of middle school and into high school, my friends wanted to look older. The biggest factor that bothered me was how they would conform to look like the sophomores, juniors, and seniors. I felt that my good friends wanted to conform and be something they weren’t. In my personal view, Americans in general want to feel mature sophisticated but also want to have fun. Individuality is essential because it allows people to express who

I will be providing an example of conformity from my life that happened during high school. In high school I took this English class with a friend of mine and one day the teacher decided to have a debate. The process of the debate is that if you agree with the statement then you sit on the right side of the class but if you disagree with the statement you sit on the left, now I can’t really remember which statement it was, but I remember it being very one sided and I remember everyone in the class, like literally everyone sat on the right. Now I obviously was against the statement, however, I decided to join everyone else in conformity because I believed that no matter what I was about to say was probably going to be wrong because I would be

Therefore, a four day week will help advance the test scores of many students, save the school loads of money, and simply ease the minds of students. All these variables in conjunction help to show that a four day week is the way to

There's always the idea of changing something about a school whether it's the food served,time school starts,or the amount of days we attend, they were never needed and same with the four days of school with longer hours it's pointless. Contrary there is the people that would have you believe in changing the day you would have some time for R&R and then your attitude will go up because you spent most of that time with your family and having fun. Again it all sounds great but we already have after school and weekends for that, there's no need to throw it all off balance when there's no need

There are currently 21 states that feature schools that are actively operating on a four-day system. This has been a common trend that has steadily increased over the past two decades (Lake 1). Any child’s first reaction to the proposal of a four-day week would be overjoyed. To make these children's dreams come true, school systems must consider the advantages and disadvantages of a four-day school week. It’s not just about the students, but also about the school faculty, school administration, and parents. Of course, with every advantage there is also a disadvantage, but this is a positive essay full of positive points. Colby High School should change to a four-day school week because students will