"Why should science class be any different?"
Or a religion class, if the Christians get their way. I imagine that would be a pack of lies as well.
"Science" has had the reputation for the last hundred years as being a bastion of logic. A collection of "truth finders". A culture willing to critically re-examine anything and throw it out if it was incorrect.
It is true that some "scientists" have whored themselves out to environmental and other agenda entities. That fact wasn't known to the general public, and the reputation of science has remained high, nevertheless.
But in this instance, science is being hijacked from outside. It's good reputation is being stolen to provide aid to a particular religious viewpoint. And it is being done in plain sight, with the whole world watching.
This is bad for science. It is bad for the conservative movement. And it is even bad for those Christians who have taken on science, because their children will now have their noses rubbed with fossils and information that they can pick up in their hands and told that "this proves your faith is false".
If only those Christian leaders had embraced science. If they had told their children that the remarkable similarity between Genesis, when interpreted correctly, actually helps reaffirm their faith. Then all this would be unnecessary.