I'm quite certain that you could go for a year without teaching science and there would be no comment. Parents sec science as a little added frill, maybe. I don't think they see it being as important, for instance, as math is–that you know how to add, subtract or that you are able to read.
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Mary M. Schoeneberger (1986) studied this question.