Why do kids hate school?

Why do kids hate school? Why do they say they don't want to go? What do they want in a perfect school? All these questions and some more come to our minds when we are in school for a long time. To find the answer to these questions we can analyze different facts in these days' education systems, so we can find certain deficiencies in it.

One of the things that kids don't like about school is having class. There are two types of classes: interactive and not interactive. Kids usually get bored in non interactive classes because they do not require them to do anything, and just sit and listen to the teacher talk, or read a book and do activities. During these classes, children use to talk more often in the desire of interacting. Also, these subjects usually cause the kids' attention to diverge and focus on minor facts, like what's going on outside the class, or what is his/her classmate doing. Often this is what causes that kids have a lower grade in this class, and this can influence the child's emotions at the moment of getting to class.

Other aspect that makes students to be not motivated to go to class is the probability that he/she has to get a good grade. This relates to the previous point, because both of them refer to the grade as a motivation. When students have low grades in a subject, sometimes is because they don't pay attention but sometimes it's because they feel like the subject is too difficult so in their uncontious, they give up in the class.

When the kid has this kind of reactions, sometimes it might be due to a student-teacher relation, which relates to how do the kid and the teacher behave with each other in class as well as in person, or due to a way that the teacher explains the subject. When teachers talk about the subject to learn as something really easy and doesn't give his/her full attention to it, the student might feel like that is too easy, so he won't study for tests and quizzes, and that is reflected in the kid's grade. Another thing that contributes to the children's unhappiness in the class is that the teacher can have a way to make relations with the students that is different to the way the kid makes relationships with his family and friends, and this can cause a difference and a feeling of disconfort in the student.

There are many causes to students' discontent with some teachers and the school, but all of them are not so important, because students get motivated by friend and school mates to keep meeting, at the same hour, in a regular schedule, in one of the most important places they will ever be: School.