I’ll start with an admission: this photo is more likely demagoguery than not. I could see 9 year-olds being fed this crap much to their detriment by private, protestant schools. Unfortunately, this republic has made the difficult decision to allow parents to fill their minds with garbage like creationism instead of science and fact to hold on to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

That’s not to say that there aren’t theocrats who would like to see all schools instruct children with rubbish like this who lack political clout to advance such causes.