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I don't know what it is about "these times", or even if is IS "these times," but I've just about had it with parents who elbow their kids aside to do their work for them.
We bend over backwards NOT to do our kids' school projects for them - at the most we try to do an abridged Socratic method to help lead them to plan, strategize and execute the horrid things themselves. We're sick and tired of seeing what other kids bring in as finished products, though - and we're sick and tired of teachers actually buying the obvious fiction that kids could have produced the work they turn in.
We have college app essays coming up and we tear out our hair over what it might mean NOT to intervene, but we're just. not. going. to. And the worry kills us, despite our confidence in our kids' writing/thinking skills.
I say expose these parents for what they are, let the chips fall where they may and may these parents be shamed and put in their rightful places.
Just IMHO, of course. YMMV. :|
