Schools: Conformity vs. Individuality

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Schools Conformity vs. Individuality

• Synthesis Weeds and Roses

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Hooray!!

• This paper went really well for most of you this
  is a natural skill that we just need to hone for
  collegiate and professional writing purposes.

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Weed 1Comma, Comma, Comma

• I know you are writing on demand, but these comma
  rules must be engrained in your head.
• The introductory clause was the one with which we
  most struggled.
• PAY attention to these words when you use them to
  begin a sentence
• Because
• Of course
• Despite
• However
• If
• Since

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infamy.
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Weed 1Comma, Comma, Comma

• Write three sentences that begin with a lengthy,
  independent clause that necessitates a commma.

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Weed 2Use language from the prompt

• If the prompt asks you to discuss the hierarchy
  between individuality and conformity, you best
  use those words
• When to use them, when to use synonyms?
• Schools should focus on people and not on
  schedules.
• Schools should not have a mandatory dress code.

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Weed 3Possess me!! (Properly!)

• What is the rule for when we use apostrophes?
• The three cats hats donned frogs eyes.
• The tabby cats hat donned frog eyes.
• Ms. Kitchens horse, Echo, is a wild, old
  Thoroughbred.
• Why does grammar matter?

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Weed 4Use detail to support generalizations

• Schools rarely pay attention to individual
  students needs instead, they focus on the big
  picture and force everyone through the same
  classes.

• Schools rarely pay attention to individual
  students needs one student has a knack for auto
  mechanics, but hes forced into Algebra II twice
  a day another student excels in writing, but no
  creative writing courses are offered. Instead,
  students are forced into the same rote schedule,
  with a bell commencing school at 755 for all
  students and the entire student body finishing
  their studies at 255 (Source E) without care
  for after-school jobs, needs, or the passions of
  each unique learner.

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Roses! (Finally, I remembered!!) ?

• Education is important. And by education, I do
  not mean schooling. While yes, it is important
  to learn, is it important how we learn? Does the
  hard and fast rule of six hours a day, five days
  a week, and nine months year work effectively for
  everyone? The simplest answer is no. Not all kids
  need this suffocating structure in their
  education. Source A mentions that 2 million
  happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal
  justification to rest (Source A). Kids dont
  need this conformity to learn. While some amount
  of conformity is essential to function in
  society, the extent to which schools demand
  conformity and discourage individuality is
  detrimental to the preparation for student for
  life in the world.

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Roses!

• The bells ringing throughout the school day
  signal when classes start and begin. It is a
  normal occurrence for most students in high
  school to work according to a set schedule. The
  sample bell schedule with eight periods, each
  forty-six minutes long, illustrates this point
  (Source B). Childrens creativity is limited to
  46 minutes per subject and is not based upon the
  amount of time needed. Putting thinking into a
  box, running from class and to class, and
  conforming to the time allotted is what the
  public school system forces children to do. The
  level of thinking is not nearly as high as it
  could be. If children were allowed to study a
  subject and learn until they fully understood,
  there would be no set schedule. A loss of
  learning goes along with conforming.

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Roses!

• Some people believe that mandatory attendance
  keeps kids in school who would rather not be
  there and costs the schools an enormous amout
  of time and trouble (Source E). This is true,
  but the kids who do not want to be at school
  leave. They break the conformity which allows for
  individualism. The kids that are left to attend
  are not only there for the mandatory reason but
  because the choose to be there. Conformity leads
  to individuality.

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Roses!

• mandatory attendance now serves a different use
  than its original intention. According to Source
  E, our compulsory school-attendance laws once
  served a humane and useful purpose (Source E).
  That purpose was to protect childrens right o an
  education instead of being taken advantage of for
  their cheap, underage labor. Now mandatory
  attendance is simply to force children through
  more classes. If a child can leave school at age
  16, why not let them come and go as they please?
  Instead of students going to unnecessary classes,
  they could be developing skills for the workforce
  and saving money.

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Roses!

• In schools, rules and time provide protection as
  well as restriction.