Non Conformity In Public Schools

Students and families are also given clear statement on such principles before enrolling schools and often reminders during their time as students there. This way they need to understand and accept that

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

This includes prohibitions against assault and theft or respect for leaders (Source G). Given that students are at an age where they are extremely moldable, it is imperative that they learn these rules in school.

Consequently, the rational step taken is to deconsecrate schools into outwardly irreversible place of esteemed value of social order (Kozol, 3). He further noted many ways of opening the issue in complete observation of the class, which he believed can be attained by the quotation of many respected people’s word, such as Horace Mann who was diffident in articulating the real utility of public schools. Nonetheless, he also provided some other ways of embarking on this which he conscientiously noted that has exposed their conjecture of public schools as adults (Kozol, 4). Additionally, he said the best way of achieving this is by disseminating this purpose to students through dialogue as recommended by Doris Lessing (Kozol 4). Finally, he stated that there is no deceit of learning to be a responsive, affectionate or sympathetic person.

In Project Classroom Makeover by Cathy Davidson, the author explains the faults of standardization in the education system; she prefers customization so each student would receive a catered education. However, in standardization, conformity is not only commended but also strictly enforced to

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

Tradition includes the concept of losing your individuality and becoming uniform with other people at the school. This is shown through most of the characters becoming lawyers or doctor. They also all wear uniforms, sleep in the same dorms, learn and study exactly the same. When most of the adults find a nonconforming child, they associate that with being disobedient or even a failure. On a side note, thesaurus.com even defines disobedience as a suitable synonym for non-conforming. In general, the school and leaders or teachers within the school, contribute to the boys’ new strange views on life.

“Group conformity scares the pants off me because it’s so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn’t want to-or can’t-join the Big Parade.” The style of text I have chosen to focus on is individuality, as I believe that uniqueness of an individual is essential for freedom. Through analysing the texts Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Equilibrium by Kurt Wimmer, Blind Faith by Ben Elton, The Machine Stops by E.M. Foster and I Always do what Teddy Says by Harry Harrison. I have noticed that societies are being controlled through the idea of conflicts and religious symbolism and conformity, which are prominent in all the societies. The intent to trigger us of the dystopias that could arise in our world today is prominent. I have also

Tennagers are always warned about the dangers of conformity. Parents worry about what kids might do when it comes to peer pressure. This is not a new concern since, overtime, conformity has shown little positive outcome. Conforming led to disasters such as the horror of the Dark Ages and Hitler’s Germany. When individuals begin thinking for themselves, great things and advances in society happen.

Going to public schools have allowed me to discover many different types of students. As a student at Warren Central High school, I have had the opportunity to interact with different types of personalities and attitudes at the school. Also all students do not act the same way. In addition, everybody comes to school for different reasons. Some students think school is necessary while others think it is unnecessary. At Warren Central High school, I have observed the three different types of student: the lazy ones, the work-alcoholics, and the sociable butterflies.

At this time, the government is trying to have all of the citizens conform to their ideas of the "perfect citizen.” Government bureaucracies want to control every aspect of daily life, including the new technology, whereas a chip can be implanted and one’s every move can then be tracked by the state. This poem tries to teach the dangers of conformity that the state is trying to force everybody into through laws and regulations for appropriate state-sanctioned behavior. In my life, I have seen many instances of people trying to have you conform. Schools have all kinds of regulations about the schoolchildren and, in many cases, school officials want school uniforms to make all students look alike and to conform to their appropriate dress code.

Indeed, the school is society in miniature; as such it demands that individuals follow rules of conduct so that the organization / school can continue to function and to carry out its responsibilities.

General collaboration with public schools will help individual students achieve these skills to facilitate the raising of standards to a better society. Attending public schools should have a positive impact for community growth and betterment but also the human development of the individuals attending. Education at home and expanding it at school are the foundation for developing respectable citizens. Parents need to stop thinking of school as a place to send their kids so they are in a safe place while they are at work. Teachers should stop seeing children as just a part of their job and get paid accordingly. Public schools can produce all types of young adults but it takes the support of the family and the efforts of all mature adults that come in contact with them to assist in the grooming and educating of well behaved, respectful and respected young adult citizens (Allaria 2011).

There are many controversies that american public education system does more harm than good. In “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto and “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon, explains how school education destructively impacts us. Gatto states his experience as a public school teacher and why he “just can’t do it anymore”. He was tired how the schooling was programmed. He argues how school system are affecting students to be more like “childlike” citizens. Also, Anyon demonstrates her research on how there are many different kind of education depending what “class” you were. She informs us that there is an inequality in “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”. Both authors depicts the reality and truth, that some people are unable to see. As a student, I’ve also experience this and support how school depicts how we are in the future. Moreover, there are many representations that explains why the american public education systems does more harm than good.

According to National Post Ben Fields, a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School has been fired for using unnecessary force to remove a student from the classroom. Videos taken by the students in the classroom show Deputy Fields asking the student to leave; upon refusal, the officer is seen wrapping his forearm around the student’s neck and flipping her while she was still sitting in her desk. The female student is then dragged, tossed across the room and finally handcuffed while students watch. According to students, the female student was on her cell phone in class. After a teacher and administrator were unable to get the student to hand over her cell phone or leave the classroom, Fields was called. A classmate quoted the female