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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did the article leave a bad taste in anyone else’s mouth? She’s suing now in college, when she could have said something sometime over the past decade? I understand the language barrier, but she says she could still barely hold a pencil in 11th grade? This sounds exaggerated and designed to cause an uproar for her financial benefit, fame, sympathy support, etc. [/quote]
No. Absolutely not. She was a *child* until 5 minutes ago. She is a feminist latina icon as far as I'm concerned, and I am not the type of person to hang my hat on that.

I have story for you. My kid's suzuki music teacher told me her kid, now in college, is now writing hand written exams because the college could not come up with a better way to stop kids from cheating. She said some kids were struggling to physically write essays. Now here's the frosting, her daughter was homeschooled/private high school and learned cursive. Her professor could not read her cursive! [/quote]

I don’t think there’s any excuse for an 18 year old that doesn’t know how to hold a pencil, unless she also has a physical disability. You’re telling me she never learned to hold a fork, chopsticks, never used a makeup brush? I really think “barely knows how to hold a pencil” is exaggeration. If you tell me she can’t write anything beyond her name, yes I’ll believe that.[/quote]

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