Synthesis Essay
As a senior with six months to go until graduation, looking back on the last 13 years of school there has been good and bad things. Conformity was never really a big problem in my school. Students never had to wear the same thing or eat the same thing at lunch. We always could kind of do things our own way, but also follow the rules at the same time. I was one of those kids who didn’t go my own way, I liked to follow the crowd and do what all the other kids did. I wasn’t really taught to be social and talk to other kids as much as I wish because I’m really shy, and I don’t talk to many people. I wish things could of been different with schooling and my personal life. Even though the way teachers taught was good, I don’t think
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In math we learn to add and subtract, and that’s ok but we don’t need to learn how to find all the over the top equations. Nobody will ever use that kind of stuff in their workplace. In history we learn about things that are not really important to me like the old presidents or stuff that happened 200 years ago. In the video TED Talk, “How Schools Kill Creativity,” by Ken Robinson, he states, “And in pretty much every system too,there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? I think this is rather important. I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they're allowed to, we all do.” I think drama and art should be required for kids to learn to be creative. So schools just need to learn that kids don’t really need to learn math, and they need to learn something that makes them interact with others. Nobody is the same, and nobody will ever be doing the same thing. Schools don’t need to make the whole student body doing and wearing the same thing, I don’t thinks it