The scary side of education in the US

I just spotted this link on twitter (a rather famous cyclist posted it).  It looks like Texas is going to mess with science now.  It's amazing how local officials can control what our kids are taught here in the US.  Could this not be mitigated by a nationalized self governing school body.  Education should be run by educators or am I just being a Communist.

When little Bri gets to school and come home with this rubbish he'll get one answer.  Either your teacher or the person who tells your teacher what to teach are f**king idiots.  

Christianity, 2000 years of scientific meddling.  We are still re-learning things we knew back then because it was banned so their stories would work.

OK I'm a heretic