Something is Fishy

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Something is Fishy

Ok, ever since i have been going to my new school (started last year), we have been getting summer reading books and assigned movies to watch, yes it sucks and is quite retarded, but something still confuses me. Every book I read and movie i watched were about fighting the system, anti-conformity, and basically think for yourself.

I found this rather peculiar, since it is school, and honestly i have no idea what they attempting to do, and i'm sure it isn't coincidence. I mean, wouldn't a school assign books about conforming to society and/or a certain religion or a single mode of thought? It doesn't add up. It also makes them hypocrites, the english teachers are probably like "we make kids watch movie about freedom, therefore our skool is speshul", and yet they still place some of the most freedom-restraining rules and regulations possible.

Thoughts?