Personally, that’s just a sad view of the parents, who obviously intentionally avoided teaching their kids how to tie their shoes by just buying their kids Velcro shoes. How pathetic is that?

As well as (finally) teaching the kids how to tie a shoelace knot, the teachers should also assign homework to all those parents… make ’em learn every darned way to tie (and lace) a shoelace there is: http://www.shoelaceknot.com/shoelace/index.htm.