Students and taxpayers deserve better than textbooks full of fads, passed off as facts. Parents deserve to be reasonably sure that their families' religious convictions are not under attack when they send their children to our local school. Our community deserves schools with credible teachers, textbooks and administrators. Credibility is especially important. Either apathy or anarchy is likely to ensue and discipline problems occur.
Parents get the blame.
This situation is also avoidable. There is no reason to teach evolution at all. If it must be taught, it should be taught in a comparative religion class as the neo-paganism it is or science fiction. And if there isn't enough information available to teach earth science factually, cancel the class. As a Catholic wife and mother, it is my solemn responsibility to teach my children about truth which is embodied in the true Faith.