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Liberals see the political value to teaching evolution in school, as it makes teachers and children think they are no more special than animals. Childhood joy and ambition can turn into depression as children learn to reject that they were created in the image of God.
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Evolution has **religious** consequences, as well as political. This is true for evolution and ***hundreds*** of other government school polices and issues.

What does the education of a child involve? It involves three religious questions that guide and direct the actions of every sentient person on this earth. They are:

1) Where did we come from?
2) Why are we here?
3) Where do we go when we die?

Evolution impacts a child's belief on all 3 of those questions and the consequences for that child are highly political, cultural, and religious.

There is NO way for government schools to address the topic of evolution, ID, or creationism without ***establishing*** the religious worldview of some ( see the 3 questions), and actively undermining and destroying the religion of others. The government school can NOT be neutral. Secular is NOT religiously neutral.

As long as we have government schools we will have continual and bitter acrimony over evolution and hundreds of other issues. The biggest political bully will get to answer the three questions that shape everyone's actions in this life: Where do we come from?. Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? Is it an wonder that the battles over government curriculum is so vicious?

Solution: Get government out of education. Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.

Government schools can NOT simultaneously respect a citizen's right to free speech, free press, free expression of religion, and free assembly, and run compulsory schools. Government ESTABLISHES religion every minute of every school day, because government never were, are not, and never will be religiously neutral. Evolution is merely one of hundreds of examples.

In other words, government schools are unconstitutional on both the state and federal level.

Though I agree with your opinions on the state of public education I can't agree that public schools are "unconstitutional".
If this were so then Thomas J would have never proposed the University of Virginia or his plan of erecting schools throughout VA for children and young adults alike. And after he did no one raised any objections, constitutional or otherwise, and those around at the time were also present at the constitutional convention.