"A high school diploma isn't worth much if the kids have to take remedial science classes to make up for what the public school did not teach them."
That's been happening for more than twenty years in colleges as it is, and that's with Math and English. I saw that when I went back to finish up my degree. As a non-traditional sudent (read: not a recent high school graduate) I was much closer in age to many of my profs and became friends with some of them and boy did I hear about it from them. IMO, "deprogramming" kids from a belief in creation is the least of the colleges worries when so many of these kids can't even read, write, or do calulations without a calculator.
I have to agree on that one. I am (finally) going to college as an adult, and I am more than twice the age of most of the other students. I am frequently appalled at the writing ability of the vast majority of younger students. I would never have passed the seventh grade with writing as bad as what I see in college. I literally wince at a lot of it.
IMO, "deprogramming" kids from a belief in creation is the least of the colleges worries when so many of these kids can't even read, write, or do calulations without a calculator.
This is precisely why they shouldn't be taught pseudoscience. They are already a fertile field for ignorance.