[American in Israel]

He was hired to teach biology, not the history of social darwinism or links to 19th Century philosophers.

The foundation of modern biology is based on social darwinism. To teach biology without teaching about its foundations is piss poor teaching. Giving facts without context is brainwashing, not teaching.

[Paperdoll]

>Giving facts without context is brainwashing...<

Humanist theology took hold of the public schools many decades ago. There actually is a Humanist Manifesto, and it reads very similarly to the Communist Manifesto. Public servants have signed it. The public schools have been brainwashing children noticably since the '50's, beginning quietly in the late 19th century by John Dewey, etal.
Read NEA, Trojan Horse in American Education by Samuel L. Blumenfeld if you really want your eyes opened. It was first published in l984. Alas, people seem to care more about their pocketbooks than about what their children are being taught. Hence much of what we are faced with today.