My Daughter ‘Went to School’ Every Morning – Then Her Teacher Called and Said She’d Been Skipping for a Whole Week, So I Followed Her the Next Morning

“Why are you helping her cut school?”

Mark raised his hands in a placating gesture. “She asked me to pick her up because she didn’t want to go—”

“That’s not how life works, Mark! You don’t just opt out of the ninth grade because you don’t feel like it.”

“It’s not like that.”