That is the one thing that no teacher wants to hear.
"I don't like you."
It's all over for a teacher who now has to struggle up hill, both ways in the mental, metaphysical snow of reaching out to student to teach them something that they have no interest in learning, and have no value in learning.
The pressure is on the teacher to help the student make the grade; if the kid is failing, it is a near credo that it must be the teacher's fault.
If the student does not like the teacher, that is also the teacher's fault, and he or she has the full burden of reaching across to the unruly, impassive student.
Still, most kids get a kick out of riling teacher, and they have no incentive to cooperate.
Since when did education get the lop-sided notion that a teacher needed to earn a student's favor? Parents who want to be their best friend never actually are; the same is true with a teacher or any other adult in authority. Kids deserve, have the right to be kids. They are not entitled, they must learn that they simply are not going to like everybody. Most importantly, the world, which owes them nothing, will not care one way or another if there is any warm feeling between.
What a disservice, to allow students to toy with teachers and staff because, God forbid, "They don't like you!"
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