No. I never was grounded or even had a curfew. I cant ever recall hearing any kind of comment (good or bad) abput my grades.
That’s not necessarily always a good thing.
There’s a difference between benign neglect and just plain neglect, period.
I think the primary thing that saved me from a wasted life was the fact that I spent the first two grades of school in a boarding school where they taught reading the old fashioned way. Phonics.
Thus I became a lifelong reader early on and spent most of my early years with my nose in books.
An interesting side effect of being a voracious reader is that most school subjects (except Math) rely so heavily upon reading comprehension that one ends up automatically good at a whole bunch of subjects.
Therefore, I didn’t end up
hating school or having to be disciplined into doing well.
So, basically, reading saved me from the potential of a horrendously misspent youth :)