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There is no doubt that having excellent academic performance is necessary to guarantee one's life in the future. Various efforts are made by parents to ensure their children have a high learning motivation and achieve excellent results in academics. However, academic demands can cause anxiety among children. Therefore, it affects their motivation to go to school and it contributes to negative effects on the children's mental health. So, this study was conducted to identify the learning motivation among high school students and explore the concerns they face at school. This qualitative study is based on five psycho-educational group counseling sessions with seven respondents who are between the ages of 14 and 16. The findings of the study show that these students have good motivation, but they have concerns such as harassment from their peers, fear of teachers, schoolwork load and unpleasant behavior of canteen staff. The conclusion that can be made as a result of this study is that the concerns faced by students need to be addressed immediately by parents and the school to ensure that students are happy to go to school and strive to achieve excellent results in the academic field.
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