The next morning when she came to me and said that she was ready for me to take her to school, I told her that I had been thinking about what she had said the previous day. I had decided that taking her to school and me going to work would cause global warming and I would not be part of it.
She would have to stay home or find another way to school. She was stunned and thought I was kidding. “But Dad, I have a Bio test this morning!” “Sorry, we have to think of the planet.”
It was too late to get a ride with a friend and she had to stay home. She was livid. It was a Friday and I told her to do a some more research on global warming and we would talk about it on Sunday. Well, she did and it was amazing. She realized that her teacher had simply been lying to the class about global warming. It was a history teacher. She apologized. And wrote a report on the hoax of global warming.
On Monday, she went to school and gave the report to the teacher. Global warming did not come up again in the class.
You taught your daughter a most valuable lesson that will serve her the rest of her life: be on the lookout for snake oil salesmen, because there’s always one around.
I love the story. Reminds me of the time as freshman in college I had a prof known to be socialistic, if not communistic, who gave many reading assignments by like minded authors. On the final exam there was a question to define propaganda. My answer was what our reading assignments were all about. The prof did give me an A for the course.
Point! Set! Match! Well Played!