World Map Portrayed Completely Wrong

I had class first period on a D day. In class we discussed the world map and how it's portrayed completely wrong. I learned that Greenland is way smaller and shouldn't be almost as big as Africa. Africa should be way larger and skinnier and longer. United Kingdom is portrayed too big when it's actually a smaller island. The world map I grew up looking at, Alaska was the size of about 1/4 of the United States, well that's actually wrong. Alaska is only a bit bigger than Texas maybe even twice the size of Texas. This really confused me and made me angry. It bothers me even more that we don't actually use the real world map and kids are still learning that the Earth looks completely different. Also when you look at the map, Antartica looks really huge and long but in reality it's just a small island at the top of the globe. Because maps are flat and the earth is round when you unravel earth into a flat surface it makes Antartica look a lot larger than it actually is. ALSO, that reminds me, IT'S ALL UPSIDE DOWN. That's what really got me. Everything on the earth should be flipped upside down and it's really confusing. I think we should start teaching kids the new map now before the whole world thinks of it as something different that it isn't. I'm really upset that the Earth actually looks like that, it's like something that I've believed in for so long isn't actually real. Rant over, you can go back to reading everyone else's posts.