Creation was taught in schools for a couple hundred years before the ACLU and it's atheistic compatriots forced it out.
It's not part of any conspiratorial *wedge strategy*. The majority of people have always wanted creation addressed in public schools. Poll after poll has demonstrated it.
The will of the people is that it's not evolution only. The actual situation is that through litigation, evolution only has been forced on the unwilling majority of the general public.
I guess you don't remember the scopes trial where someone trying to bring science into the classroom was prosecuted.