OUR COUNTRY HAS LAWS THAT SEPARATE church and state. Public institutions like schools must be neutral on the subject of religion, as required by the Constitution's First Amendment.
Um, no. The First Amendment, in its actual historical and philosophical context does nothing more than forbid the federal government (extended to the State governments bythe 14th amendment) from "establishing" any one religion as the "official" religion of the United States, in a legally established sense. It says nothing at all about making public institutions "neutral" with regards to expressions of religion or religious sentiment. Nothing at all. Our courts have mandated that creationism is not an appropriate addition to the science curriculum in public schools;
The courts have also mandated that black people in times past could be re-enslaved and returned to their masters. The courts have also mandated that local governments can come in and condemn your property if they'll make more tax money giving it to a developer. The courts have even mandated that the US Navy can't practice in American terrorial waters with its own sonar lest it disturb the migration patterns of some types of whales. Quite obviously, the courts are not to be looked to as being in any sense arbiters of what is either constitutional or even common-sensical.
My question for those who think that questioning evolution in schools and teaching creationism and/or ID since those would be representative of the teachings of certain religious groups, and hence "mixing church and state" is, why do you support the teaching of evolutionism, when it has many principles which it holds in common with Hindu cosmology? By your own logic, teaching evolutionism is basically mixing Hinduism in with the state, and therefore a violation of the religious neutrality which you profess to hold so dearly.
The dispute would be rendered moot by the general availability of vouchers.
You just make up stuff as you go.