[Seamoth]

Anyone here feel free to steal this idea: a physics playground

That's a great idea! Of course, hardly anyone would take the risk to build a playground these days, thanks to lawyers... sigh.

You're right that there's a lot about biology that can be taught before chemistry, but you'll eventually need chemistry to fully grok high-school-level biology (and evolution by extension). YEC also sneaks in through geology & astronomy, so a little of each should be thrown in for a solid science education. At the high school level, astronomy could be co-taught with more advanced physics.

However, before we can argue over the minutae, we'd have to somehow get rid of all the bleeding heart educators who are responsible for lowering standards in the first place...

[From many - one.]

I remember Sputnik. This is one kind of problem that can be solved by throwing money at it.

The reason is that most scientists can think of nothing they'd like more than doing more of what they are already doing: research.

Fund grad school science education with more scholarships and we'll get more students.


The only additional feature needed is pressure to get scientists, real ones, into the elementary through high school classrooms.