Why don't kids like modern art?

My son had been visiting some exhibition of modern art with his school. He told me in confidence that he thought modern art was crap, nonsense and absolutely pointless. He found some of the pieces especially irritating; someone had pulled together some metal things from lamps and someone else had been recorded how she was walked around in an apartment and proposing improvements.

I tried to find out what the real problem was. It turned out that first of all they had been forced to stand up listen to someone talking and explaining the objects and secondly he didn't like the naming of this crap for "art". When I have been traveling with my kids, we have been joining guided tours and exhibitions of historical places and museums and it hasn't been any problem to stand up and listen, even at traditional museums. But their resistance towards modern art has been compact. I remember standing in the entrance hall of Tate Modern, and not being able to convince them to enter the exhibitions. Just because they had been visiting modern art exhibitions with the school and they had hated every second of it.

Why do schools take kids to modern exhibitions when the museums apparently make it into such a boring experience? Why do they have to make it so pretentious? "This is fine modern art and I shall now explain the meaning of it for those of you who doesn't understand it". Who likes to feel like an idiot?

I must admit that I would probably share my kids opinion about some of the objects, but I wouldn't be annoyed if I didn't like or understand it. I thought that the possibility to have the freedom to create things as they like what appeal to young people, especially since they watch crazy things on YouTube and laugh at all kinds of nonsense people put up there. The more pointless and stupid the more popular it seems.

I tried to explain to my son that maybe the artist just wanted to make you feel, think or react in some way? Just like some music or some YouTube video does? "But why it is called art" was his question. Well, I agree, why not rename it do "crazy nonsense" and encourage young people think whatever they like about it? I'm sure it would make it much more popular. Or put the stuff on YouTube and let the creator explain it. It would get them instant feedback!