I am amazed with what some state about high school science education.

I was in graduating class of 45 students. Our high school required two years of science. Every student took Earth Science in the ninth grade and Biology in the tenth. Biology included a lot of study on taxonomy, so the students understood how different species, families, and orders were related. We spent several weeks on mendelian inheritance, so we actually understood how traits and mutations get passed along, and finally we spent time on anatomy, so students might know what was going on inside their body.

Of course, 70% of the class had farm animals at home and participated in selective breeding programs, so we took to genetics eagerly.

Advanced students were offered Chemistry as a Junior, and Physics as a Senior.

I graduated in Podunk rural Idaho in 1974.

People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.