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Sometimes teachers field stories like this to foster critical thought and encourage insightful book reports. It's stimulating material even with a flawed premise, and that's the point.
My teachers always seemed to be the type that had these stories in the curriculum, but weren't the type to follow up with the thinky-thinky bits. This had rather predictable results.