IMO one of the purposes of being a teen is to prepare oneself for the adult world. Up early, have breakfast, get yourself out the door and to school at the same time working adults arrive at the job site. Student’s job is to go to school. Parents need to stand firm on no TV or video games during the school week, check to make sure homework is completed and have an early bedtime for all their kiddos. Tough duty but part of the responsibility of raising children.
Unfortunately too many parents pay little attention to their teens and left to their own resources, kids will stay in bed until half the day is over.
“I got an earache, man.”
Exactly the view of the Socialists who foisted government schools on the U.S.--sometimes at the end of a bayonet. Schools have been DESIGNED to train children to struggle with reading, to be pathologically dependent on peer-approval, and to spend their lives in soul-destroying, regimented factories and offices.