How to Ruin Your Education and TV Viewing

What will you do as a parent if your fourteen-year-old comes home from school and says, "You and the teachers have been telling me Columbus discovered the Americas. You've lied to me because that isn't true. There are no such things as facts, and I decide the meaning of what is written in my textbooks. I'm the one who chooses the interpretation of any writing, including history and the stories of Columbus"? How are you going to answer, especially in light of what the Encyclopaedia Britannica sta