Sweetie, you're missing my point. Noone is suggesting the young man be coddled. Nor am I saying he should be disobeying his mother.

If you read what I said, I said he was 13. That's why he's trying to get out of doing chores because it's what 13 year olds do, Black, White, purple , gay, straight, whatever, it's what they do.

To sue the school for brainwashing is absurd. I used whatever I had at my disposal to get out of chores, so did my 3 boys. Things such as The United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child, Unreasonalbe Search and Seizure (when I didn't want my mom to find my booze in my backpack), sexism, racism, you name it. Should I, or my parents have sued the school for brainwahsing me or my kids for teaching me/my boys things like Civics, Politics, Social Studies and History? Yeah, not so much. I thought my point was clear initially. Evidently not, but now it is.