grade teacher, Miss Caroline, seemed to think that Scout's advanced reading ability was a bad thing, and she ordered Scout to stop reading withAtticus, since "your father does not know how to teach." Miss Caroline soon "spanked" Scout with a ruler and sent her to stand in the corner. As Scout left for lunch, she saw her teacher

... sink down into her chair and bury her head in her arms. Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.

Scout hated the stories read by Miss Caroline, who didn't recognize that her students "were immune to imaginative literature." She was "bored" with the new teaching regimen that Jem incorrectly called the "Dewey Decimal System"; she hated that Miss Caroline paid no attention to her well-intentioned explanation about why Walter Cunningham had no lunch money; she hated Calpurnia for having taught her to write cursive; she hated how an "endless Project... slowly turned into a Unit"; and she hated how

... as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. 

Scout is a very advanced student when compared to her peers. She is already able to read, and she encounters some problems with Miss Caroline on the very first day of school as a result. Scout discusses her problems with Atticus when she comes home, and he teaches her about compromise.

Scout's naivete also gets her in trouble with Miss Caroline. If you remember, Scout attempts to "explain" the Cunninghams to Miss Caroline on the first day of school. Miss Caroline reprimands Scout, and she fights Walter on the playground.

Go back to Chapter 2 for additional details about Scout's school experience.

Remember that you can only ask one question at a time.  Feel free to ask about other characters in more questions. 

Scout is the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird.  She is an adult looking back when the story opens, but she does seem to remember what it was like to be a child.

Scout is often frustrated by others’ expectations of her.  For example, her brother Jem often accuses her of acting like a girl, even though she is one.

I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’.”

There was more to it than he knew, but I decided not to tell him. (Ch 4, p. 39)

Scout does not like being called a girl by Jem, as it is usually used in a derogatory fashion.  She also does like how her aunt does not approve of her overalls and tomboyish behavior.

Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants. (Ch 9, p. 83)

Scout is both fiercely independent and fairly active.  Since Atticus is older and Scout is her only sibling (and there seem to be no little girls for her to play with), she tends to use Jem and Atticus as role models.  There is no mother in the picture, and only Calpurnia as a woman’s influence.  As the enotes character description notes:

Scout maintains an innocence and an innate sense of right and wrong that makes her the ideal observer of events.... She naturally questions the injustices she sees instead of accepting them as "the way things are." (enotes character analysis, Scout)

Scout is also frustrated by anything she deems as unfair.  This includes Miss Caroline punishing her for being able to read, Jem scolding for her being a girl, Calpurnia telling her what to do, Aunt Alexandra  complaining about her clothes and behavior, and eventually the town’s treatment of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson.

Citations:

Scout is continually frustrated with the behavior of the townspeople of Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird. Some people call her father, Atticus Finch, a “nigger lover,” which is something she doesn’t understand. Atticus explains it to her, along with why it is wrong for people to say such a thing. She is also frustrated that so many people believe that Atticus is doing the wrong thing in defending Tom Robinson. In fact, she initially believes that since so many people believe Atticus is wrong, they must be right.

Scout is also frustrated by her own inability to control her anger and emotions. Like some of the people of Maycomb who unthinkingly vilify her father, Scout also has a hard time mastering her inclinations for  hatefulness and violence. In this way, Scout is similar (like all of us) to people who hate blindly. The difference is that she has a father who can guide her through this phase and show her how to live a better life.

Jean Louise Finch, or Scout (from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird), begins school in chapter two of the novel. Since this is her first time at school, Scout's brother Jem is in charge of showing her around. Scout believes that "money changed hands" for Jem to willingly show her around school. Scout does not begin school on the best note. 

On the first day of school, Scout is put in the corner for the first half of the day (after having her palm "patted" by a ruler). After having Scout read for her, Miss Caroline tells Scout not to allow her father to teach her any longer (since it will "interfere" with her school reading). Scout tells Miss Caroline that Atticus did not teach her, and she was born reading. 

Essentially, Scout has a hard time at school because she is so far ahead of the other children. She even states that many of them are repeating first grade. She feels as though her teacher does not relate to her as a student, and Scout is angry because of the way she (Caroline) speaks about Atticus. Scout is even angry because she cannot play with Jem (like they do at home). She is simply not happy with the school or the way her teacher Miss Caroline teaches (the "new way" according to Jem). 

Scout is excited to attend school, but once Miss Caroline begins teaching Scout quickly changes her mind. Miss Caroline does not appreciate that Atticus has taught Scout to read and tells Scout that he can't do so any more. Scout is then forced to sit as Miss Caroline flashes sight word cards at them, which are far below Scout's reading level. In her boredom, Scout begins writing a letter to Dill, and Miss Caroline catches her and tells her that her father should stop teaching her how to write as well. She adds, "Besides, we don't write in the first grade, we print. You won't learn to write until you're in third grade." The statement is ridiculous because Scout has already mastered both, but Miss Caroline is completely out of touch with Scout's academic needs—and young Scout knows it.

Scout is also critical of the methods which Miss Caroline has been taught to use in her educational attempts with the children. Miss Caroline employs endless projects that "slowly evolved into a Unit." These efforts in creativity are not appreciated by Scout, who longs to simply read actual books:

Miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Instead of reading, Scout spends a great deal of time working on group projects. As she evaluates those older than herself who were not trained exclusively in this new methodology, Scout realizes that they seem "to function effectively alone or in a group." Scout feels that she is crawling along the "treadmill of the Maycomb County school system" and that it is cheating her out of something. She is bored for the duration of her time in school, and her initial eagerness for learning is all but dead. She is certain that "twelve years of unrelieved boredom [is not] … what the state had in mind for [her]."

The novel takes place within the span of a few years. For this reason, Scout matures (as do the other characters).  Therefore, Scout's struggles change. At first, Scout struggles with seeing things from the perspective of others.  Scout is always well-intentioned, but she cannot see outside of her own world. Atticus, therefore, tries to help her to walk into the shoes of another person. We see this struggle in her interaction with Walter Cunningham and Boo Radley. Here is what Atticus says to her:

“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-”