Religious Right groups are fond of claiming that public schools are 'religion-free' zones, but that’s hardly the case. They are 'religious coercion-free' zones, and that’s as it should be.

Charles Darwin’s theory is not frozen in time; far from it – it is constantly being updated and reevaluated in light of new findings and information. That’s what real science does.

All too often, kids’ education is put secondary to discredited beliefs, whether that is teaching a version of creationism or promoting bogus 'Christian nation' views in social studies classes.