I did get a halfway decent education in the public schools. There is no way I'd be okay with telling poor children they haven't a prayer of ever escaping their poverty through education.
Ah! Here it is! Scratch a Evolution-pusher and underneath is a government school defender. I have never known an exception.
A strawman, really? Aren't you the one making the wild claim that evolution is only of interest to "those scientists in this specific field"? That rather (conveniently) ignores the fact that evolution impacts biology rather heavily, and the whole process of the evolution of the universe, formation of the earth, evolution of the earth, etc., is of interest to many scientists who do not study biology. To try to study science in the absence of knowledge of evolution is like trying to study mathematics in the absence of knowledge of the arithmatic properties of numbers.
Ah! Here it is! Scratch a Evolution-pusher and underneath is a government school defender. I have never known an exception.
Evolution-pusher? Seriously? I am a scientist. I defend science against the overwhelming forces of anti-science. I attempt to educate people on how to recognize pseudoscience, especially in areas where pseudoscientific beliefs have the real potential of harming their health.
And you apparently did not read or understand exactly what I said about public schools. In your little fantasy world where there are only private schools, how do poor children go to school? A realistic understanding of the situation tells me that poor children would be prevented from going to school in your fantasy world; I may detest public schools, but I think preventing children from going to school is a worse evil than sending them to public schools.
And, since you apparently did not understand what I said about public schools before: I was horribly bullied at school. Not bullied by students who took biology class, but bullied for all the usual and stupid reasons bullies harass others--because their victims are "different". I point this out because you seem to imagine that students of biology (where yes, they do learn about the fundamental evolutionary framework of biology) are out bullying the other kids when, in reality, they're the ones most likely to be victims. What the public schools did to my son is inexcusable. No, I'm not a fan of public schools, but I also did not come from a rich family like you apparently did, nor was I rich when my son was a child. And private schools were out of our reach.