It would seem unlikely that anything more than a position or endorsement might be taken here, as the states are the ones that determine public school curricula. And as one might expect, what is taught in the public schools varies from state to state. Southern states, for example, have historically been hesitant to confront their history in textbooks when it comes to slavery and the Civil War, Jim Crowe and public segregation.

That said, what is happening in recent years appears more like an all out assault on the public schools curriculum through book banning, attempts to insert “intelligent design” into the science classroom and renewed efforts to reassert “traditional values” in the schools. Conservative Christians, especially when in the majority of a given community, would like to forget sometimes that we are a pluralistic and secular society and government.