Then let the scientists pay for it. In my occupation, the employer tells the employee what to do. If the employee doesn't like it, they can quit.
Schoolchildren are not employees--for the purposes of their education, they are slaves of the state, rather like draftees. Your analogy is brain-damaged--scientists are too busy in their labs to give a rats ass, other than by occasional lip service. The urge to teach science, like the urge to teach grammar, comes from a desire on the part of school boards, administrators, and federal curriculum overseers to produce children that don't shame the commmunity they came from by being pig-ignorant about the major things our culture values. If your local board doesn't think science is one of those things, fine--don't teach it, otherwise, the science they should teach should not be a specially concocted brew that satisfies the sensibilities of the general community, but, rather science as it is actually practiced. Do you think grammar should be taught as spoken at the local monster truck rallies, or do you think grammar should be taught as spoken in college fine arts classes?