David Harsanyi on the Creationism Crisis That Isn’t

Recently, Politico and other media outlets have been
sounding the alarm about students using vouchers to attend schools
teaching creationism. Indeed, 14 states spend nearly $1 billion of
taxpayer tuition on hundreds of religious schools that teach kids
the earth is less than 10,000 years old.

This would be more troubling if we didn’t spend hundreds of
billions every year not teaching millions of kids how to read,
writes David Harsanyi. Voucher programs offer a wide variety of
choices for parents, unlike the closed, failing schools that so
many kids are trapped in. As of now, public schools spend about
$638 billion on about 55 million students, but only 250,000
students—almost all of them poor—are free to use vouchers and
tax-credit scholarships. Of those kids, the vast majority do not
attend schools with curricula that feature intelligent design. Yet
judging from all the “special investigations” of creationism in
schools, you may be under the impression it is the most pressing
problem faced by educators.

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