That's what I tell my kids. Go ahead and give the answer the teacher wants for the test. That doesn't mean it's true or that you have to accept it as being true.
I explain that, back in my day, we 3rd-graders would point out how So America fit into the shape of Africa as though the two had once been joined. "Oh no, pooh, pooh.", the teacher said. "That's just a coincidence. Science says that didn't happen."
Funny how 3rd-graders turned out to be right and 'science' was wrong. LOL!
That’s because there was no scientific theory at the time to back it up ( I assume this event occurred before 1960) ... continental drift and plate tectonics have only been around as theories in the last 50 years...magritte