Give her a break. She couldn’t even get in to school without her mom bribing them.
Poor dumb kid.
I don’t think any of this is because of a lack of intelligence. It’s because of intellectual laziness, which is ubiquitous in society these days. Learning, training your brain, etc., takes effort. Lot’s of effort, and it’s a lifetime commitment. If you don’t put that effort in, then you wind up not being able to punctuate properly, among a myriad of other things.
I was having brunch one day a few years ago, and overheard the conversation that was happening at the table next to me. It was the divorced mom of a girl my son went to school with. The mom was now dating this European guy who had some kind of investment business.
You could tell the mom was enamored with this guys ‘stature’ and greenbacks, but what he was saying to her daughter was unbelievable. She was talking about not liking math, and how difficult it was. He told her, ‘You don’t need to know much math. You just need to have money, and know what percentage return you’re getting on your investments.’
This may be along the lines of what this girl was hearing. In the end, it’s about being able to think, and not waste your brain.
Great joke I read on another site: This is the first teenager in history to be correct when she said her mom ruined her life.
;-)
She takes after her mother.