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My point is, given that our public schools are currently NOT teaching creationism and yet the quality of education in America is continuing to decline at such a rapid rate, perhaps you shouldn’t worry too much about the “threat” of creationism finding it’s way into kids minds.

Yeah, but the schools weren't teaching anything remotely resembling Ken Hamm's / AIG's young earth "creation science" back before the decline in educational standards either.

This stuff wasn't even invented until the 1900's and 10's by George McCready Price, a Seventh Day Adventist whose efforts were more directly invested in upholding the literal truth of "Prophetess" Ellen G. White's utterances than those found in the Bible. (The Bible never says that Noah's flood deposited most of the earth's fossils, or even that it was geologically significant, but White did say exactly that.)

Even then this flood geology scheme attracted little attention outside of Seventh Day Adventist circles. It didn't even begin to become popular among fundamentalists and evangelicals generally until Price's ideas were (mostly superficially) reworked and repackaged by Morris and Whitcomb in The Genesis Flood, published in 1961.