You mean...herself?
I pay my own tuition fees, as far as I'm aware most people, like myself, get student loans to pay for them. Now, I'm not saying sack off uni spend most the time drinking and pissing about, but surely if she's injured her ankle and is walking on it, I know for a fact it's doing her no good whatsoever and as stated earlier in the thread it will not heal. I don't know about the US, but in England university is heavily based on teaching yourself. I could not go to any lectures and get a first class, purely by using textbooks and powerpoints, seeing as the majority of lecturers simple give you the knowledge in it's simplest form, and you have to go research, learn and understand the rest yourself.
The effort isn't put in by attending a measly 10 hours worth of lectures a week or whatever. I do law, a course which I have to say isn't exactly easy on the workload you get. If I attended all of the lectures and that's it I'd fail. End of. Not because I'm stupid, not because it's a hard course, but because that's hardly putting the effort in.
For the record, I'm not saying you don't put the effort in DS
I'm sure you do. I'm just trying to make them understand you have to do a damn sight more than just attend to succeed.