Since you have all the answers, you tell me. ;)
You are clearly pushing the creationist agenda for world dumbification. This is a political movement, not a scientific one.
To the contrary. I am appalled by the abysmal education in the US in science and math. The US scored way down the list (again) in a recent international comparison. It is more likely the educrats who have an agenda (stated or unstated, seen or unseen . . .) which is being played out in results in the dumbification of kids.
Basic chemicals forming into more complex chemicals, eventually forming simple life.
More likely eventually forming something that is identical to the same life form which had died, since the process you described does not make it living. BTW, is this postulated ("eventually forming simple life") process continuing as we speak? (Just asking?) If so, is there evidence of it? If not why did it happen only once?
Form there, biological evolution takes hold. Wanting to know EXACTLY what happened, how and when, . . .
If it were scientifically proved, we would know . . .