Originally Posted by somewhereonearth
... 15 minute diatribe...
I am so sorry for your child's negative experience. Yet I am so relieved that he could pinpoint and articulate his disappointment, and feel safe in expressing these deep negative feelings to you. The next phase after awareness and outrage may be apathy and underachievement. You may wish to rescue kiddo before further damage occurs from his non-learning environment.

Many kids love to learn, and begin to loathe school when they correctly observe the school actively or passively thwarting learning.

Many believe that focusing on encouraging the love of learning will naturally bring up performance and test results;
Paradoxically focusing on bringing up test results may wither both the love of learning and subsequent student performance.