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By so doing, you are telling them their minds, their reasoning ability is superfluous. You are instructing them that just saying the right mantras will get you ahead in life....

Exactly what happened in my sone Bio class last year. They spent some time on evolution, less than a week, and as they covered it, the teacher told them that he was going to teach them what they needed to know to pass the regents test. He told them that he didn't care if it made sense to them or not or whether they thought it was right or not, if the kids didn't put down these answers, they would get marked wrong on the test. So the point was, don't think for yourself, it'll only get you in trouble with your grade on the regents if you reach a different conclusion from the results that they want to hear.

sone=son's *sigh* long day.

Exactly what happened in my sone Bio class last year. They spent some time on evolution, less than a week, and as they covered it, the teacher told them that he was going to teach them what they needed to know to pass the regents test. He told them that he didn't care if it made sense to them or not or whether they thought it was right or not, if the kids didn't put down these answers, they would get marked wrong on the test. So the point was, don't think for yourself, it'll only get you in trouble with your grade on the regents if you reach a different conclusion from the results that they want to hear.

But you realize why they approached it that way, don't you? It's (most likely) because that's the best way they found to minimize the risk of some passionate creationist student from constantly disrupting the class by bringing up bogus arguments & gotcha's that they read in some righteous creationist website. And it minimizes the risk that a group of creationist parents will storm into the principal's office in high dudgeon, demanding that they stop that evil biology teacher from indoctrinating their children with all these godless lies...