<p>GMT, that is not a choice poor parents should have to make. Not only that, if the goal is to prepare kids to compete in a global economy, giving them a substandard science education does not seem like a very good way to do it, don’t you think?</p>
<p>And FWIW, it is generally not the Catholic schools that are shoving creationism down students’ throats. It’s the evangelical schools like the one I attended. Their agenda pervades every subject and makes life miserable for smart, inquisitive students.</p>