I think I agree with you. I do think that those looking for exclusion of ID have made a tactical error which will result in less science education and not more.
The purity of science has been preserved at the expense of its public availabililty. The controversy would have attracted good study of science.
So if we parade ID in our schools and pretend it qualifies as science, we're advancing education?
I think the ID controversy will be good in the long run because it will tweak scientists out of their lairs and get them back into the public arena.
I believe it's all part of God's plan for us.