16% of High School Science Teachers Are Morons

According to a recent survey conducted by Pennsylvania State University, 16% of high school science teachers consider themselves young Earth creationists. Clean your spit take off your keyboard and listen to that one more time. 16% of the high school science teachers who responded to this survey believe that human beings were created by God within the last 10,000 years. Of course, the percentage could have been higher, so it's not all bad news. But what does this say about the quality of education our teachers receive before they're given the task of informing young minds? That lovable old so-and-so P.Z. Myers has a nice writeup on the survey over at his blog, so I won't go into too much more detail here. But if you happen to be in high school and your science teacher is one of those 16%, congratulations. Your days are probably just as much a waste of time as they seem.