The goal of my research is to figure out how students are controlled through curriculum and censorship. Most people can figure out that schools are meant to shape kids into what the government and society wants us to be. However this question can't simply be answered by what we're taught, it's also answered by what we aren't taught and what's taught beneath the surface.
Researching what gets taught in schools gives us some insight into how America wants its students to turn out and what the overall goal of school is. To do anything correctly you must know the goal of what you're doing, this must apply to school as well. If you don't know what you're trying to accomplish in school you won't be very successful in it, some students may get good grades but won't retain what they learn and their goal is to learn then they've just wasted their time in school.
To figure out the goal of school, the student must first look at the government's goal for these students, based on the curriculums set in place the government wants students to have a well rounded education in high school and branch out into different fields of study in college, this is shown through the "surface" curriculum, the curriculum that students are aware of. The sub-curriculum should also be explored to discover how schools are transforming students into "ideal citizens" and what exactly an "ideal citizen" is.
Learning about the goals society has for us will help us to play along since we know what the overall goal is, or it'll help us to criticize the school system and come up with new systems set around goals that make more sense and produce better citizens.
