Once again, you're driving an anti-parent narrative that deflects accountability from ALL parties participating in a multi-faceted problem.

So you're telling me that this girl wants to be a doctor and she never thought she'd have to crack open a book to do so? If she wants to be a goddamned doctor so bad why does she require her parents to FORCE her to do her homework or read a book? Where's the personal accountability?

It takes, on average, 75 hrs of instruction to learn to read. The rest is all practice time. You would have us believe that she has to have her hand held by her parents to practice at something she knows she needs to get good at? Does she need to have them hold her hand while she's learning to text her friends and play video games too? Funny how that works out.

You can ask for extra work if you need it. You can ask for extra help. You can go down to the library and get a reading buddy. Libraries also teach adult education reading classes. You don't actually have to be an adult to take an adult ed enrichment class.

I assume she knows how to use the internet. There's more on here than cat videos and celebrity gossip and sports. You can use the internet to learn things. Khan academy. You don't have to be a child to sign up.

If she truly wants to be a doctor, she can buckle down and catch up. If she doesn't make it, it's not because of her parents, it's because she was too entitled to do the work. She didn't really want it.

You can't get a doctorate degree out of a cereal box. Time to grow the fuck up, put up or shut up. Her parents can't take the tests for her. This is on her.

So you'd have us believe that this girl was struggling and not meeting metrics year after year for 12 fucking years and none of her teachers failed her a grade, recommended summer school, put her in remedial classes, sent her to the counselor's office or paired her off with a reading buddy and ensures she had an extra study hall and somehow in your mind that failure, that willingness to let floundeyrinf students slide on by and be someone else's problem is somehow completely and totally due to negligent parenting?!?.

Give me a fucking break. They got her there didn't they?

Perhaps teachers and schools should spend less time trying to be substitute parents or "advocates" and more time teaching. Maybe if they can't command a classroom effectively, they should find another profession.

If phones are a problem, why are they being allowed in classrooms, rather than collected? And how the hell is THAT the parent's fault? Mom isn't in charge of the classroom. And if she is, I return you what needs to happen if you cannot command a classroom.

More entitlement and labor dumping.

Your arguments are flawed and biased based on your own personal history. And that's your right to write your opinion. But given that history, it did not go unnoticed how casually and easily you too were willing to cast this girl aside as hopeless refuse, with no chance for the future she wants and throw it at her parents feet.