The purpose of this study was to explore whether the fact of students’ learning
difficulties affects the attitudes of teachers and their students toward each other. In this
study, about 330 underachieving students from 4th, 5th, and 6th grade and about 270
general students from the same grades participated with their classroom teachers to answer
the survey questions on student-teacher relationship and role expectation. According to the
results, first, there wasn't any certain difference for the role expectation of their teacher
between achieving children and underachieving children, In the case of achieving children,
it's hard to find the significant difference regardless gender. However, 6th grade students
showed lower expectation for their teachers than 4th, 5th grade students. Secondly, between
achieving children and underachieving children, there wasn't any certain difference for
awareness of relationship with their teachers. Thirdly, teachers’ attitudes toward the
underachieving students was more negative than those toward the general students. More
teachers who have over 21years teaching experience showed the negative awareness of the
relationship with underachieving children than other teachers who have less 10years teaching
experience.