Creationist ideas being taught here.

[Lilith7]

I am in two minds about this kind of stuff, because of my actual parenting experience. I was a huge fan of state education based on my own decades past experience, until I was a parent with a very intelligent curious child who I had home schooled since birth went into that much changed system.

She didn't fit, for a number of reasons and simply abandoned education in her fourteenth year. It was a difficult time, but now, as an adult, she is fine and building a good life for her family.

Having progressed my own learning about the process of education, that sense of discomfort about our state system has only increased. And while I do not hold with the misinformation passed on in the guise of religious education, I am only too aware that learning is a lifelong process, and it is the responsibility of the learner to find the teaching that suits. In the 21st century we are both blessed and hindered by the internet, access to the huge human wealth of knowledge is so much better than it ever was - it is even more true that learning is up to the individual.

Like everything else, it is a choice. Learn, or stay ignorant, and live with the consequences. It really is up to us.

I think our education system needs to change; (its only comparatively recently that the education system has recognised dyslexia) in particular that different kids tend to learn differently.

My two youngest went to a boys only high school because that was what they wanted - I'd have preferred a co ed school but since their mates were going to this school I decided it might be for the best.
It wasn't, & I ended up sending them to what was an alternative school back then, despite being warned against it by a teacher from the boys school. That turned out to be the best thing i could have done for them & they learned far more from that experience than they could have where they were.
Sadly, that school no longer exists, but I believe we need more along those lines.

However to be fair, decades later a grandson chose to go to that very same school in spite of his dads experience & flourished there - I suspect things had changed for the better.

Imagine, if we had free education for everyone at all levels. People could continue learning, educating themselves in many different areas & no doubt it would help in staving off things like Alzheimer's.