No. Apathy is just apathy. It's not mean to not care. It's neutral. Mean would be teasing or laughing at their suffering. Or inflicting it. Like I said, I just have my own life to live and I'm not interested in worrying about other people.
I have a negative opinion of empathy, I think empathy is overused. And I think it's mostly fake. You don't know what it's like to be someone else, no matter how similar of a situation you have been in to theirs. You also don't know all their extenuating circumstances. So you're never right when you try and empathize with anyone, and it's an empty gesture anyway. It's a waste of time and it encourages the sort of virtue signaling we see all the time these days. Too many people trying to pretend they're good people by crying about causes they have nothing to do with, not enough actual good people.
Kindness is fine but it's not something I would focus on. If the kid wants to be kind to others, let her. If it's not something that comes naturally to her, I'm not going to force it. She needs to learn to stand up straight, to look people in the eye when she's talking to them, and to say "sir" and "ma'am" a lot.