Teaching to lie

After my daughter Scout came home from school today, I followed her outside to check on her. When I asked her all she said was that she was not feeling well. She also told me that she didn’t want to go to school and suggested that she could teach herself. However, I told her that this idea would not work because law requires one to attend school. To make her feel better though I promised her that I would keep reading to her, as long as she didn’t tell her teacher, Miss Caroline. This would mean I would be teaching my daughter to lie. This is not what you would want to teach your children but I knew it wasn’t right for her teacher to tell her she could not learn outside of school. Learning in school is great, but I know the best lessons learned are in the outside world.