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Some people even "know" that a kilometer is longer than a mile.
In fairness, the teacher may have understood that the student was right about kilometers, but was distracted and put-off by how he made his point, which was pretty brutal.
You know, pretty much how people regard me all the time :-P
Except for "brutal" substitute "breezy". d-:
Yes, the child was pretty brutal. That said, so was Galileo when he stood on the table and dropped fruit, while having a polite diner with a clergyman who "knew" that heavier objects fell faster than light objects -- if the story is true.
This letter is not meant to be taken at face value; the writing is clearly ironic. Perhaps something from the Onion.
I don't know about the Onion specifically, but I'd only accept even odds that this is a joke.