I’m flabbergasted.
Do you even have any concept of science being taught as science as opposed to being enforced through the courts...
or science taught as non-ideological and with critical thinking...
OR is your aforementioned either/or projection of extremes all about lock-step teaching, one way or the other, with no other possibility, the way you were programmed from the outset with no concept of a middle-ground?
You know, pre-NEA?
Or are you a product of the NEA failure yourself?
Or do you need more colors and charts and big fonts to think about all this for awhile?
I agree with you! We shouldn't have this either/or mentality when teaching "science." We should present astrology alongside astronomy and let the kids decide which they believe. We whould present alchemy alongside chemistry and let the kids decide which they believe. We should present creationism alongside evolutionary biology and let the kids decide which they believe.
Think how our nation's science and industry would thrive if our engineers weren't forced into the extreme lock-step of Newtonism, but were free to learn that intelligent falling is just as valid as the theory of gravity?