In my whole life, I have never been asked by my school to be creative. I've never been told to write a story purely from my imagination or to draw a picture of what I'm thinking. When I was in 6th grade, my classmates and I didn't know what to do when we got to school and our only directions were to free write. We had been always told exactly our prompt and the number of words our essays had to have. Now I'm in 8th grade and our presentations are 20% based on creativity. Most of us only manage to get an B+. It's gotten to a point where when schools ask us to be creative, we are still asking for directions.
School is a set system. Creativity requires freedom. Even though schools think that adding subjects like art and music allows for creativity, I believe that's false. Creativity needs a free environment that ,unfortunately, isn't at school. School often times doesn't allow for free-thinking even though they try with things like "creative writing" .At my school they tell us to write about "realistic events" during creative writing which , in my belief suppresses anything out of the ordinary and thus stops the imagination from doing what its meant to do.
I just believe the school system does not accommodate for every single type of individual...Which is understandable since its only one system . Just my opinion :|