These kids just don’t want to learn” and “These kids don’t care about their education
I think a lot of teachers become overwhelmed and frustrated when students aren't engaged in their lessons and throw their hands up and say things like this. Thinking back to my own experience as a student, I can remember 'not wanting' to learn math. But in retrospect, it wasn't that I didn't want to learn math, it's that I didn't want to fail at learning math. I didn't want to struggle. I just wanted to already know all the answers and skip the process. I 'didn't want to learn' because I didn't know how to learn math. But understanding how I worked as a student gives me more insight into how my students may see things and how to be a better teacher.