If my memory is correct (high school was a long time ago for me), high school physics also teaches that centrifugal force is real. I recall one memorable exam question. We were given that Tom Sawyer is swinging a dead rat by its tail, and the necessary data, like the tail's tensile strength, and instructed to calculate what angular velocity he'd have to achieve to snap the tail off. I liked that teacher a lot. He did a lot of demonstrations that involved dropping heavy things on the floor, because the senior French teacher, whom everybody in the school despised, was in the classroom right below his.
More to the point, a lot of what's taught in schools is of the "lies told to children" variety of information, in the sense that they're oversimplified versions of what's really known. I think it probably has to be that way, and university really isn't much different, at least in the undergraduate years. You don't start out with general relativity in first year physics, for instance, you go through classical physics first, so you might get Lagrange's and Hamilton's formulations of Newton's version before you get to Einstein. Same with evolution. There are some basic ideas you can impart at the high school level, but that's about it. Given that a major purpose of high school, or at least what I think should be a major purpose of high school, is to expose students to as broad a range of human knowledge as possible so they have a foundation on which to make reasoned decisions about what to pursue further, if anything, it can't really be any other way.
