by Joseph Malek

Created on: September 18, 2009   Last Updated: September 20, 2009

You and I both know that there are a number of reasons why a school aged young person might not want to go to school. Besides emotional reasons for not wanting to enter his or her place of education, there can also be one or more physical reasons why a young person would rather be any other place beside the interior of a class room.

Needless to say that if a child does not get enough sleep it usually is quite a chore for his or her parent to force that tired young person to arrive at the school in a timely manner, if at all. The truth of the matter is that every young person should look forward to the adventure and the experience provided by another day of formal education.

If not, you better believe that something is wrong somewhere. Therefore, it is wise to determine why that young person no longer has an interest to learn new things and socialize with those other children who he or her most certainly knows.

Then again, peer pressure can be a terrible thing to endure if your child becomes the object of scorn or somehow does not fit in with those other children, so to speak.

Additionally, one or more so-called school bullies might have selected your child as their next victim. From my point of view, to be victimized in such a way, no matter how old that bully might be, is truly a crime that clearly warrants a punishment by law enforcement. It is true that one "bad apple" can turn the rest of the apples within that barrel just as bad, if not worse.

A bully usually is also a mentally disturbed individual that most certainly requires professional help of some kind. Then again, there are plenty of mentally disturbed teachers who also take advantage of some or all of their students. That too should be a concern for law enforcement.

Try as you might, you should not confuse the difference between a phobia for learning with the true facts that cause your child not to want to go to school. In that regard, your child could be nothing more than a spoiled brat who is absolutely determined to do what he or she wants to do. It seems to me that some form of non-physical punishment is clearly required, in order to change your child's way of thinking.

Above all else, one or more of the above problems must be resolved as soon as possible. As a parent, that is your responsibility. That is, if you want your child to grow up to become a responsible adult.

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