No.
I fall back on Churchill's statement about democracy that it is "the worst form of government except for all others that have been tried throughout history." The same applies to parents getting the final say in how their children are reared. Sure, it may suck -- but it's the least sucky way to create and rear individual humans. We have become such piss-ants in the industrialized world that we're creating an insipid society where everything just has to be micromanaged so that everybody gets exactly the same thing and no one is ever left behind.
And that's lovely, except we're actually constraining our people so enormously that any gain realized for a small percentage is more than eaten up by the harm done to society as a whole. It's frustrating that we're even debating this. I may hate -- with a passion -- the conservative Christian mentality. It disgusts me to hear some of the things they teach their children, but we have to accept that the best people to rear their children are the parents of those children.
The moment government steps on that unit and demands that they subject their children to some group-think or socially approved ideals, we really cease being a free society, but a hive organism. YES, I think it's best that children learn real science not the bullshit that some theists teach. But ultimately that is just my opinion and as long as the parents provide a stable, safe environment and provide the meaningful moral lessons of life along with a heaping of love and kindness, then what the fuck else is it my business what one parent teaches their children?
We just have to trust the current framework for rearing children as the best available option for creating strong human beings. There may be some other way a century from now, but we are not there yet (and we may never be). For all of its flaws and all of the times where children are neglected and abused, it still works the vast, VAST majority of the time. Whatever flaws there may be in this ancient framework ("family") there is no reason to destroy it by robbing parents of their right to pass on their beliefs and customs to their children.
We just have to make peace that our society progresses very slowly and that sometimes some people just have to be allowed to be who they are. This is the cornerstone of individualism. It's the cornerstone of our ethics. It's the cornerstone of freedom. So, no thanks to meddling with parental choice in educating their parents.
ADDITIONALLY: If a child attends a public (secular) state-funded school, then that school should ONLY teach science. Not religion. No "Intelligent Design" because that's religion. If they want to graduate from that school, they'll have to understand science. If the parents don't want their child learning science, they can send them to private schools or home school them.
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