I also said (quoting myself):
“Please note, the above concerns pedagogy only — it isn’t meant to be a comment on the substantive issues (between evolution, and ID, etc.).”
You just have to look back at all the TOE/ID/Creationism threads on Freerepublic to realize that the “controversy” makes the subject far, far, more interesting than simply presenting the orthodox view. Do you expect students (teenagers at that!!) to just take teacher's word for things — or would you rather equip them to be able to think for themselves?
I am sure that you would be the first to call the principal's office if your child came home saying that the science teacher was teaching that God may be dead.
Looking at all these threads I see repeated the fake science of the creationists' web sites over and over again. It is not interesting. It is pathetic to see how so many are fooled by these guys and actually send in money to them.
But you do know that ID proposes that life originated from simple elements in pond scum and that man evolved from animals that evolved from this original life over billions of years?