Parents do look to educators for guidance. By increasing the scientific credibility that educators provide, maybe we can restore this broken trust. Educators need are support when they are unwittingly manipulated by advocacy groups. Some for sure are deliberately using flawed materials, many educators, however, use the material that are provided and only later discover they have been duped. Educators at the school level want to maintain a positive rapport with students and parents. Good scientific information helps them maintain that rapport.
If parents look to educators for guidance, then their children are truly hooped.
Get rid of all 'educators', and replace them with teachers - that would be a start at school reform.
That's because parents have been hornswoggled for the last 40 years or so ... they actually believe that it takes an "expert" to teach a 6-year-old to read and add, or to explain to a teenager why it's stupid and immoral to have sex outside marriage.
I appreciate your position, but I think it's mistaken, and ultimately unproductive, to encourage parents to look to "educators" for guidance in matters that are the province of parents.