A Good Question

How is one to respond when a student, complaining about her grade, says "Well, I thought your comments were only suggestions and that you were just telling me how you would write the paper and I could take them or ignore them"?

I think Polly's response is best so far: "Well, you are absolutely free to ignore my comments. However..."

Update: I think this cartoon best illustrates the attitude of my student this semester. She actually did say "I need to be motivated to do my work." Oh. My. God.