Why do teachers get so upset when high school students drop out? What if they student hated school and was?

Question

constantly failing?

Answer 1

Schools and parents usually set students up to fail from the beginning of kindergarten. Schools teach with the reward system if you make good grades you get a pizza party, you read books you get a reward and so on. Parents pay kids for good grades and punish them for bad grades. Schools and parents should teach kids school and learning is a gift for each child it is not about getting a reward for doing what a kid should want to do. By the time they reach high school they rarely can please their parents or school anymore they decide they have had enough and quit. High school teachers [the ones that care enough to get upset] know what a student is doing to their future when they quit. Don't you see because you hate school and are constantly failing does not mean you are not learning. You probably hate the atmosphere and all the stupid testing, you might not be good at taking test but that is alright are you learning? The teachers that care know if they did not have to follow all the stupid guidelines they could reach more students like you if you have teachers that are upset about students dropping out it could be because they care. I hated every day I went to school and had to repeat some classes at the time I thought I was dumb but now that I am older I know myself better. I want to learn about things especially history there is so much I don't know I am really into politics and I think about having history in school and I think why didn't I pay attention back then. It was not because I was dumb and couldn't learn I didn't have a passion to learn. I didn't want to be around a lot of people I did not fit in with. Find out who you are there is something you can be passionate about once you find that passion you will see you are not a failure the system has failed you they bribed you to learn they did not teach you the joy of learning. We all have things we are good at find yours please don't drop out take this time for yourself you will find your way as long as you don't quit.

Answer 2

I know this might be hard to understand for you since I can tell from your question that you just do not see the value in getting an education.
As a teacher my self I will tell you that to be a teacher one must have a desire to help people, it is certainly not for the money, since the pay is low,....but that is not what motivates most teachers.
Life is hard for most, and I can tell you the truth, even very educated people can struggle in this world. But without knowledge we are hollow as a person. I know school may seem boring or worthless now.....but honestly ask yourself this.....how can knowing something be a bad thing? Even if you think it is worthless information now, someday you find a use for it...you just got to trust me on this one...it will become useful, I promise you! Teachers know this and try their best to help guide students. Maybe the problem of failing is due to another problem..... Let me ask you this...can it be that the one student is so much less intelligent than all the other students? , I mean other student do the work and pass.... so how can it be that one fails amongst all the rest? Please go back to school and try...forget the rest of the nonsense..... you can be the best if you try.

Answer 3

First: It should say "What if "THE" or "THEIR" student hated school and was constantly failing"? Second: Why become a teacher if you don't have a strong interest in helping students reach their full potential? Hopefully, a passion for it. And, when a student drops out, some part of you would likely feel that you had failed. In any endeavor in life, failure is not what you are trying to achieve. Third: What kind of teacher do you think they would be if they didn' give a damn?

Answer 4

I believe most teachers really care about their students and their futures and they realize that if a young person doesn't have an education they don't have much chance for a good future in the day and age we live in now.Alot of good teachers can see in a student a potential that others might miss.Possibly they know you can do better if you just try harder. Also in this world the way it is today a young person can have too much time on their hands and "idle hands are the devils workshop".They are adults and they realize that if anyone (not necessarily just you) has too much time on their hands it can lead them the wrong direction in life. I pray the very best for you!

Answer 5

I'm working on my teaching degree right now and as a future teacher it would upset me because high school isn't hard. I passed with a C- average. No one is lacking the ability to graduate. Some may find it more difficult then others but most teachers are willing to help out students who are having trouble. I'm becoming a teacher because I want to help improve the quality of life for our country. Smarter kids means smarter adults and that means a smarter nation. Teachers may also be upset because they feel they have failed educators and mentors to the child. We want you to succeed.

Answer 6

Because teachers feel like they failed the student when they dropped out. And they want the best for the student later on in life.

Answer 7

Because teachers become teachers because they care. Even if they aren't such good teachers and you would never know it, they deep down want all of their students to have a chance in life. Someone who never finishes high school has very little chance at ever getting out of poverty, having a good job, getting self respect. A much better chance of ending up on drugs or booze or homeless or in prison. It is better to struggle through high school and barely make it with Cs and Ds and have that piece of paper than to give up. It is a very rare person who can pick themselves up from nothing with no high school diploma and do anything. Because when it comes down to getting a job, the employer doesn't ask what grades you made, he only wants to know you finished. Plus, even all of that aside, the things you learn in school, although they seem stupid and unimportant when you are there, serve you as the basis for everything else you will know and learn as an adult. It is very important to get that basic foundation if you want to make anything out of yourself.

Answer 8

As a soon to be teacher, I can say they hate it because they realize how important education can be to leading a half way decent life. As a mother of a student who had failed 2 times and was soon on the way to the third time, I can say it is heartbreaking. You know your child will have to support his or herself and it scares you. My child was offered another option called Options III. They don't give all the useless courses that bog some down, they help him get his GED and train him in a profession (his is welding.) Within 4 months, he took his Pre-GED test and almost passed it. I know that school is not for everyone and there are other things you can try. Good luck.

Answer 9

Because the student will find out in a big big hurry that work is just like school. Same hours, (pretty much), same expectations, same grind, and if the kid couldn't hack school for two more years, how will he ever make it in life? When you look at the joy a pre-schooler or first grader has for going to school, you wonder who or what is to blame when that joy dies and the kid becomes lazy, belligerent and stupid. Is it the kid? the schools? the teachers? parents? life? How does it happen? When a kid drops out, it's because he didn't try to find help, and naturally a teacher becomes upset about that.

Answer 10

It's because teachers see these young people with such bright eyes and so much potential to lead a more interesting, satisfying life, if only they are willing to sacrifice their time and dedicate their efforts to education just a little bit longer. After all, high school is just 3 to 4 years (depending on if you have freshman year there or in middle school/junior high) and your whole life might last another 50 to 70 years. Plus the more you know, the more likely it is you will be able to help support yourself, and you won't end up being a terminal welfare recipient and stuck trying to make rent payments and bill payments every month for the rest of your life.
P.S. My youngest brother dropped out of high school and later realized that every job he applied for really wanted him to have his high school diploma, so he got his G.E.D. online.