[R. Scott]

So you're saying schools are doing a lot better job now than, say, back in the sixties and before when religon (philosophy) wasn't taboo?

Of course not!
When I was in high school – the early 60’s – science was taught as science and religion was taught as religion, in a comparative religion class. There was no big squabble with fundamentalists trying to force schools to teach religion as science.

[cajungirl]

When I was in school starting in the forties, religion, creation and any off shoot was not taught in school at all. We started with vocabulary and the scientific method. God was never mentioned.

This is a bad can of worms, this creationism, and its proponents. It doesn't belong in the schools any more than tarot card reading.