Re: Unmotivated Kids

Michael@Awareness * Connection — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:14:45 -0000

Just ran across this gentleman who certainly agrees with you and makes the argument quite persuasively: Ken Robinson Talk on Schools

Re: Unmotivated Kids

Ogradyhome — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:00:37 -0000

What happened? Three years into school and my son hates school and struggles to give any effort at all to his schoolwork. His new teacher this year descried him as "checked out" "unhappy" and "unmotivated." These descriptions of him broke my heart because that is not the child I have at home. He is in fact a very joyful child who loves life. Just not in the classroom. I've asked him whats going on in the classroom and he tells me that the work is so boring and "lame." I feel like the classroom environment is torture to him. I think he feels angry to be forced to do menial and repetitive work all day. He is a child that loves playing and hands on learning. I just wonder if traditional schoolwork is boring my child. I just wonder if learning was through play and more hand on activities we would see kids who develop a life long love of learning instead of these bored and burnt out kids that we are seeing. This has been a heartbreaking experience as a mother to put a bright and energetic kid who loves learning into school and slowly watch him change into a kid who's zest for life and learning is slowly being extinguished. Isn't there a way we can foster the natural love of learning that kids are born with. Why do we insist on forcing information into these little minds? I wish there was a school that really respects children and teaches them in the ways that they truly learn...through doing and playing!

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