Allow that, and (understandably) every sect will demand equal time for their genesis mythology in science lesson.

American schools obviously need to address our religious history, you can't just ignore it just because it's about religion, but dependng on what part of the country the school is in and the economic status of the students and how much the school admins are paying attention, some kids will get good religious ed programs while others with get ignorant and biased ones. That's just if they only try to cover the big ones like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and the Hindus.

And the conservatives and fundamentalists don't want that either, because that will also lead their kids to ask uncomfortable questions.

in the absence of faith-based morals schools SHOULD attempt to instill some form of ethical system in their students. However, lack of funding and staff demoralization often leads to the schools being little more than holding-pens for the kids, where they gain small knowledge and have no guidance at all.

Exactly. It's not that God was taken out/could be taken out, it's that God was taken out/could be taken out and was not/may not be, replaced with anything that might work just as well. They don't even discuss scientific *ethics* in science class (at least not in my experience of such classes).


This morning, whilst randomly drifting, I found this blog post - quite an eye-opener and unexpectedly relevant to this discussion!

I will check that out!