Each year, students at the college where I work seem to require more and more spoon-feeding. They don’t read instructions, they don’t read communications, they don’t listen to voice mails, they don’t believe deadlines apply to them … it’s unbelievably frustrating. They seem to want me to come to find them and to help them do whatever it is that needs to get done - or to fix it for them if they missed out on something because of their lack of attention. I honestly believe it is just getting worse by the year (I checked with my younger coworkers, who agree - so it isn’t just my old-lady grumpiness that makes me feel this way!). I can sympathize with the fact that your students are not doing what you tell them to do, because I experience it on the administrative side every day.