To me this subject is mostly insignificant, to a mother or father that cares about how the educational system either brainwashes (Likley) or informs is a mattr of philisophical debate.
If any parent wishes thier child to belive that they are ‘animals’ or near enough so, well then don’t complain when they act as such. I myself beleive in not just the law as it was interperted thousands of years go, but also by the founding fathers 200 years ago, I belive both logic and wisdom were on that case. Be a good parent. And if you rely on the NEA standards, You Ain’t doi’n right by yer peeps.
If humans aren't animals, what do you think they are? Plants? Fungi?