A parent’s phone became the subject of an essay written by a disappointed Louisiana second-grader, and the child's homework assignment has since gone viral.
Teacher Jen Adams Beason asked her students to write about an invention they wished had never been invented. She got an earful from one student.
"I don't like the phone because my [parents] are on their phone every day,” the student wrote, according to Arkansas CBS affiliate THV11. “I hate my mom's phone and I wish she never had one."
Beason posted — then later deleted — the essay on her Facebook page. Before it was deleted it was shared more than 261,000 times. Comments by other teachers gave similar findings — both for excessive phone use and time spent on social media.
"We had a class discussion about Facebook and every single one of the students said their parents spend more time on [it] then they do talking to their child. It was very eye opening for me," Abbey Fauntleroy commented.
Others took to Twitter to express similar thoughts and rally behind the unnamed second-grader.