Is Intelligent Design leading American kids further down a road of failure in the scientific world job market?

Track P is right, but you do have a point, and your argument is both educated and well-reasoned. While the theory of evolution cannot be considered a "fact", it is indisputable that it does a better job of explaining a basic foundation for biological sciences than any other hypothesis available, including Intelligent Design. Teaching ID serves no useful scientific purpose - only a political and theological one and neither of these agendas make better doctors or biochemists.