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"As a teacher, I feel teachers in general have been harmed," she stated. "Everything you do in the classroom is teaching. How I dress is teaching. Statements I don't make teach my students." "This has spilled over into other classes," she continued. "Children of school board members say, 'Do you think we came from monkeys? How can you think we came from monkeys?'" Mrs. Rehm is the mother of four children, including a daughter in the ninth grade.

It's not an unreasonable question. If evolution is true, the teacher should have no problem explaining how.

Earlier, Julie Smith conveyed her concerns about the impact of school events on her family's religious life. According to Mrs. Smith, her teenage daughter said, "Mom, evolution's a lie. What kind of Christian are you?"

If ID has not been taught in the classroom, one cannot blame the school board. What students hear from others, who have freedom of speech outside the classroom, cannot be barred by any court in most cases; and especially if it is religious in nature.

Win or lose, the plaintiffs are going to be exposing exposing evolution to new levels of scrutiny. The simple matter of Miller admitting that evolution is not a fact will not be ignored by the IDers or creationists.