Depends on where you go to school…for middle school and high school I attended an art school that had an excellent reputation nationwide (schools like Yale and Princeton sent college admissions every year for recruitment) and where individuality and creativity were celebrated and encouraged in the students. My parents sent me there for the academics (I was in the math and science program), but it gave me an opposite to be exposed to a lot of things that I would not have learned about at the public school that I was zoned for, which actually was one of the better school districts in our state.