Isn't this just what the fundamentalist christians are doing? The problem is not just parent involvement, but informed educated parent involvement.
Yes, that is what I mean. Ignorance is self-perpetuating (from generation to generation) if the cycle is not broken by education. I also believe that being educated in history is as important as being educated in the sciences so we can learn as a species and not continuously repeating the same damn mistakes. So many people are trapped in there little religious short-sided worldview that they are doing irrevokable harm to our prodegy.
The scientific and historical ignorance in this country is appalling and I am afraid if we don't do something about it, that the US will become just another once technologically great civilization disolved to obscurity, in the annals of human evolution.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.Dr. Carl Sagan