text: . When you tell your friend about your plan and situation, he/she thinks that you should tell your parents what happened. Your friend thinks you should because know matter what you do, your teacher will anyway send an email to your parents. For this reason, your friend thinks you should be honest, so then when the email comes your parents already have the story and they can seek understanding. Many situations are similar to this one in ways, one way being how you understand the consequences of decisions better when you have advice from many people (or at least two so you have multiple sides).