[roenxi]

"When they performed [this experiment] at [experimental accuracy] they observed [that result] which makes them think [atomic orbitals and standing waves]."

Someone who thinks they understand physics without considering experimental accuracy doesn't understand physics.

[djur]

The goal of primary education isn't to understand any particular thing, it's to provide the intellectual training to understand anything. Someone doesn't need to leave middle school or even high school "understanding physics", but with a base for future understanding. The Bohr model is more than sufficient to help understand chemical reactions.

People seem to be interpreting "lie-to-children" as meaning "[you must] lie[ ]to[ ]children". I don't think there's anyone who thinks that children should be actively deceived into not knowing about quantum mechanics, just that it's OK to use simplified explanations as one step in the process of learning.