I'm not one of those... I want a discussion that represents the world these kids live in. and that includes all this! ~points at all the various responses on the thread~
At what point should kids be 'taught' to suspend rationality and engage 'faith'. This is a difficult question. When rational thought about the world/universe and faith collide, what should happen?
Rational thought concludes that evolution explains the diversity of life on our planet. The evidence also indicates humans evolved/descended from other animals. This conclusion is based on the same methodology that brought you the astoundingly complex computer system that we are now using to communicate. It has also brought you much of what you see when you look up and around. And it's brought you much of what you use in your everyday life.
There is no alternative scientific theory to evolution, regardless of what the ID proponents might claim. Ask yourself if ID thinking could have produced all that surrounds you. After all, if something is proclaimed to be a product of ID, why should any further inquiry about it be pursued? By definition it means it is beyond our comprehension. If the ID'er did it, we can never understand it. So ID is a dead end. If ID thinking had proclaimed that we can never understand disease before scientists attempted to do so, where would we be now?
One can ignore the evidence for evolution or try to nitpick it death in an attempt to discredit it, but there is no other scientific explanation. On the one hand there is evidence accumulated over 150+ years and the efforts and lifetimes' work of tens of thousands of scientists. On the other hand there is .... nothing.... other than a religious and faith based and motivated desire to discredit evolution because some think it is rude to their religious beliefs.
I think yours is an arrogant judgment that cheats kids out of the same exploring process you went through to arrive at your decision. Far more interesting would be to let kids be exposed to the debate, instead of just limiting them to one side. THIS debate is part of the environment kids need to be exposed to to assess any of the proof or lack thereof in context. Teach the controversy, that's all.
It's a weak lack of confidence to fear kids hearing any views that are opposed to your POV. One that I disrespect no matter who does it.