My mom would complain to school administrators and she'd also support my truancy when I skipped out of these "non-denominational" Christian dog and pony shows.
When my own children were in school there was this Young Earth Creationist who billed himself as the "fossil guy" and claimed to be some kind of geologist. He had a good collection of fossils that he'd let the children handle and he could entertain a classroom without explicitly stating his religious views. Teachers would invite him into their classrooms as a guest lecturer.
It was classic grooming behavior, promoting Fundamentalist Christian Creationism.
I complained to school administrators and had some increasingly hostile personal encounters with him, but it didn't end until an outdoor education presentation where parents and school board members would be present and he was to be one of the speakers. He took ill when he learned I'd be there and stopped trying to horn his way into our public schools. Later got a job teaching "science" at some fundy Christian school.
My own grade school biology education was crap because teachers were mostly too timid to teach evolution. The textbooks were crap too because evolution, rather than being explained as the foundation of all biological sciences, was segregated into chapters that could be conveniently skipped.
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