I went to a charter high school a few years ago (for the arts, nothing woo-y), and when we got to the evolution unit, our biology teacher started giving a speech about how people can have their own beliefs and how you can believe in a religion and still understand that evolution is a good explanation for the world (her little spiel wasn't really bad or anything, and I don't recall the words "intelligent design" coming up, but I rolled my eyes at how she got nervous, mainly for living in a place where she would get nervous, and ended up interrupting about the weight of the evidence, that it isn't like there's some sort of Darwinist cult and I'm ashamed that this is even an issue). That class was exceedingly dull, mainly because the year was mostly stuff I had learned already as opposed to any kind of evolution-vacillation. I should have expected as much, though, given that my home district is full of conservative Republicans of the "Prop 8? Yeah, don't want the schools teaching our kids about those filthy sick, ******* ****!" variety.
I wonder how to handle the repercussions in the cases where there is major opposition in the community. Of course it's a good idea to first get rid of the teachers who teach Creationism in the science classroom. I get the impression that whatever ideas I come up with would be too blunt for the culture, at least in their first incarnation, since I grew up in a household where I was encouraged to choose my religious beliefs, remaining agnostic most of my life and, although I had heard of these absurdities occurring from a fairly young age, it wasn't until I had reached adulthood that I began to fully grasp the extent of the problem. However, I am unaware of what practical ideas have been generated, or perhaps are already being implemented, to make the transition to more evidence/logic/reality-based biology education.
