There is controversy in life, or all these CREVO threads wouldn't have thousands of posts. I don't live life in little bubbles and neither do kids (OK are we in the "Science" bubble or the "Religion" bubble?). All this is very appropriate for school classroom discussion, IMHO.
It's not a foriegn concept, they did it when I was in school.
But not in science classes! Don't you see that science classes should be for science?
Classes in philosophy or other subjects may be appropriate for inclusion of this debate, but science is limited to fields which can produce scientific evidence.
They're still doing it (discussing creation v. evolution; aka *teaching the controversy*) in schools today, where it isn't oppressed.