US Creationists teach children Loch Ness Monster is real to disprove evolution

A quite alarming story on The Huffington Post showed up yesterday. A state in America is paying for children to attend creationsist schools where the existence of the Loch Ness monster is taught as fact in an effort to disprove the theory of evolution.

What I find even more alarming is that at the same time they are teaching these children that Apartheid was beneficial to South Africa as segregated schools meant different heritages could be passed on to children. Whats wrong with this picture?

Creationists argue that the account in Genesis is strictly literal - God made the world in 7 days (ie, 168 hours), probably some time around 6,000 years ago. This makes them very opposed to the Theory of Evolution as a modern scientific principle, and often to also reject parts of modern physics and cosmology, such as the "Big Bang" theory of the Universe.

I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinions but I have a serious problem with teaching this stuff to young children.