[nuke rocketeer]

Both my wife and I have taken great pains to refute, with facts, the crap that our kids were given in 'science' classes. All ours go to parochial schools, but we use the same garbage textbooks as the local public schools. My HS freshman is taking environmental science this year (required) and told me that he really has pissed off the teacher when he gave her the irrefutable facts I showed him about DDT, its replacements, and the information about pesticide uses in general. Ditto for my youngest in his 7th grade science class.

I read ALL their textbooks cover-to-cover each year and make sure I or my wife counters every fallacy in each book.

[BlueStateDepression]

Thanks for the encouragement. I am relatively new at dealing with school issues and it makes me feel good that I am not alone in thinking this is a bunch of bologna!