On Choice

I remember in 8th grade, Mrs. PK used to always end class by saying "remember, you always have a choice." I have decided that she was right.
The element of choice always exists. If you think about it, the statement, "I have to do X" is never one hundred percent correct. Not to sound like a sterotypically rebellious teenager, but I think that nobody can ever be forced into doing something. Rather, people can be presented with several alternatives, some of which are collosally more practical or appealing than others.
Let's take the following situation into account. It is early, and your alarm clock wakes you up. You roll out of bed sleepily, thinking, "I have to get ready for school." But surely if you wanted to you could sleep in an extra fifteen minutes. There is no physical barrier stopping you from doing so, right? All it would mean would be that you would get to school fifteen minutes late. Here, you have two alternatives. Get up now, and get to school earlier, OR sleep in, and arrive late. If you were okay with being 15 minutes tardy, then you could very easily go back to bed of your own volition.
Imagine a more serious circumstance. You are at the bank, and a robbery occurs. You are threatened at gunpoint to hand over your valubles. Some people might say that this constitues "force". Yet once again, all that is happening is that you are being presented with alternatives. Option 1: Turn the valubles over, don't die. Option 2: Keep the valubles, and presumably get shot. You do still have the ability to choose option 2, it is just (to most people) so much less attractive that anyone else would go with option 1.
In this way, the element of choice does always exist. One can never be forced into something, only given choices, some of which may be so unfavorable that people may think that they are not options at all. Yet, my 8th grade teacher was right; you do always have a choice.