Why do you think most students find school boring?

Answer 1

Most students don't find school boring until middle school. Then they no longer have recess and they only see their teachers for an hour or an hour and a half each day. The teachers become more of a superior in a job and less like a parent who knows them. Also, school is very monotonous. Everyday the same thing. Children naturally have a lot of energy and we expect them to sit in a desk for six hours each day and pay attention to things that are not relevant in their lives at that moment. Any adult would get bored with their job if they sat a desk and listened to someone talk about things day in and day out that they did not see how they would ever use.

Answer 2

Nobody likes going to work every day. Going to school is exactly the same except you get homework and you don't get paid. The frustration that children feel about having to be somewhere all day without any obvious and immediate benefit is expressed as disillusion. Often a teenager will say they are 'bored' when they mean frustrated or exasperated.

It's a real shame because if the child could see the long term benefits of getting a good education then they would be happy to be in school and grateful for lessons. Thats just not the way it is though.

Answer 3

Because they are taught that school should just be fun and games; in fact, some students just don't seem to care about learning at all! Another contributing factor could be the teachers' ability to teach effectively and in an interesting way; a lot of textbooks have been watered down so that the standard course is very, very easy and that makes it uninteresting. Also, if students had a few breaks to run around outside or switch to a different subject, then it wouldn't get so monotonous for them.

Answer 4

Most students find school to be boring because most of them are too young and immature to take classes seriously. The only way that a student will find a class "fun" is if the teacher tries to make it exciting. Most students still haven't learned that everything in life is not fun and exicting, and still need to learn that when you get a job, your boss is not going to change the way you have to do your job just so it will be exiciting.

Answer 5

Because they live in a society where they have video games and music and movies constantly, and therefore, they feel that they need to be entertained all the time. Since most teachers are not "entertainers" the students are bored.

We are teaching our children that if it's not fun, it's not worthwhile. It makes you wonder how so many adults for centuries learned so much even without Sesame Street tactics to entertain them. :oP And how so many more now can't even stick to one job for long because it's not "fun"?

It's a sad commentary on our society when our children see no value in anything serious, especially education. If they don't get instant gratification from it, then it's boring, with no thought of how education will help them in the future.

Answer 6

as a teacher, i'd say it's because many students aren't interested in learning. they are of a generation that hasn't learned the importance of a good education. they'd rather listen to their ipod and update their myspace.
teachers have a share of the blame as well. there is a mixed generation of teachers right now. some from the old school where you get up and lecture for an entire class. many administrators (almost all are still of the old school) think this is the only way to teach. so teachers have little choice but to comply.
i think their needs to be a collective effort on the part of teachers, administrators, parents, and students to make school more interesting and fun. it's not like we need to start teaching gameboy 101 but varied instruction is important. things that get kids up and moving around and passionate about what they are learning.

Answer 7

I think it's because everyone receives a 'cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all' education. That's why I home school. I went to both public and private schools all my life and got horrible grades in the subjects I didn't like. It wasn't that I couldn't do the work, it was that it just didn't interest me. I'm home schooling a second-grader and a kindergartener. They are learning the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, but they are also learning what interests them. The second grader, for example, loves cars and horses. She is learning how to use math as it applies to both of these interests. She learned last year about the difference between metric and standard tools when she helped her dad drop a new motor into a 1984 Trans Am. What school can you go to to learn that at age 6 or 7???

Answer 8

I think students find school boring because they feel they don*t have something to look forward to. Yeah they have to go to school to learn-get an education-pass the year... But what about the students who go to school to skip all their classes? Why do they do that? To be free, to not have to do any work, because THE TEACHER IS BORING, because they don*t learn anything in a particular/all their classes, because they didn*t complete a certain "homework assignment" and they don*t have any time to do it at one point in the day,,, i could go on. My point is that teachers nowadays don*t really teach good enough for the child to be really pumped to WANT TO go to school. What is the criteria for being a good teacher (besides HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOR..) = teaching something Valuable-worthwhile = motivating the student to WANT to learn = having something both Fun and Educating planned for the students = be willing to answer any questions = explaining to the students everything step-by-step = preparing them FOR THE REAL WORLD.

Answer 9

Because the topics they study are not the topics they are interested in. When we format the curriculum to be: Biology in 9th, Chemistry in 10th, Physics in 11th, we take away the incentive of 9th graders who are interested in Physics. And by the time they get to 11th grade, their interests have changed, but now they're on the road to Physics and have few other choices.

This is one great thing about homeschooling. While studying history, my son became interested in Samurai. So we put aside the lesson plans and focused on the Samurai for two weeks, reading all we could get our hands on and watching Discovery Channel and PBS specials about them. When the interest was sated, we went back to our regularly scheduled history program. You can't really do that in a classroom with 20-30 (or more) students.

To cannadoo - yes, the study of history is ENTIRELY relevant. There is a famous quote regarding this which says: "those who refuse to learn from the past are DOOMED to repeat it." Considering the current situation in Iraq, can you say VIETNAM?

Answer 10

A main reason why they're bored in school is because what all of us are looking at right now if you can see this: your computer. IMing, social networking sites and other forms of personal entertainment are all found on the computer.

Another big thing is that school can be tough; hard subjects that the kids aren't too good in so they wish they were doing something better like on their computer or watching TV.

Speaking of TV, that is also a major contributor. Without MTV we probably wouldn't have this question since without the progress of pop culture and technology we wouldn't have higher expectations when it comes to our forms of entertainment.