That's because I'm responding to her substack post, not the article. The substack post references Les Miserables and that professors are sounding the alarm for

That's because I'm responding to her substack post, not the article. The substack post references Les Miserables and that professors are sounding the alarm for students not finishing it. Presumably, if professors are upset that students aren't finishing it, they are assigning it to be read.