This has more to do with the fact public education has (somehow) become the enemy than with any hidden agenda against science specifically. Public schools are underfunded (nothing new there), public teachers are (purportedly) overpaid and unaccountable (oh, and lazy!), and grossly frivolous funding is allocated to sports programs instead of actual learning materials.

Also, it would take a huge effort to get today's teachers up to scratch on the last 150 years of physics. I wouldn't want that job.

Wow this is crazy, is this really true? I seem to remember learning this stuff in my Canadian high school science class.. but maybe I didn't? Any Canadians with better memories want to jump in here?

the President's gonna watch this on the sift.

This indeed is a big problem. Check out the video created by the John C. Wells Planetarium and the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at James Madison University: [url redacted]