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In government schools secularism his been so hammered by the likes of the ACLU into something between atheism and agnosticism. It's also undeniable that some, though not all, evolutionists are hostile to faith, and lean on their own understandings evolution as bulwarks for their hostility.

That's true of physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc. But only evolution gets hammered. Why? You know why. Evolution seems to contradict a hyper-literal reading of Genesis. That's no reason to toss it out of the schools. Besides, astronomy, geology, and other sciences also have problems if we try to reconcile them with Genesis. The schools have to decide if they're teaching science or if they're not.

But only evolution gets hammered. Why? You know why. Evolution seems to contradict a hyper-literal reading of Genesis.

And certain partisans, a minority on both sides, take their cues from that.
Both minorities want to draw pet theological or scientific conclusions about that seeming contradiction between evolutionary theory and literal Genesis, and both are cagey and disingenuous about doing so.

Besides, astronomy, geology, and other sciences also have problems if we try to reconcile them with Genesis. The schools have to decide if they're teaching science or if they're not.

The schools have to decide a lot more than that. Science is for science class.
The reason the other sciences don't have the same conflicts is because they don't speak to human origins, and therefore don't carry baggage with them that has necessary implications on the nature of human souls, as biology and evolution do.
You can't teach evolution in a distorted secular vacuum, and maintain that the debate is solely about science.
It's not just the curriculum, it's the context.