Jeb gets it, but he apparently wants to wash his hands of the matter.
I haven't decided whether teaching the theory of evolution should be mandatory or whether parents should be able to opt out of it like some may do with sex education. My inclination is that every student needs to be taught the theory in order to be fully-educated even if the child is taught at home that it's some satanic conspiracy to steal the souls of humans.
Perhaps making it an elective course is the answer. Many people are fully able to function in society without knowing squat about evolution. It depends on what they choose as an occupation and how interested they are in the scientific process.
I dunno. It's a tough issue. I respect a parent's role in deciding what is suitable for their children. I would have a BIG problem with the public schools teaching a mandatory course on the utopian value of communism. I understand the difference between a class preaching a political philosophy vs. a class teaching scientific principles, but that distinction is not visible to the parent who believes in a young earth and Creation.
I'd like to ask those parents if they'd also opt out of other theories such as gravitation, relativity and the germ theory. Evolution is every bit as sound as those, after all.