Creationism in public education

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

In the United States, the teaching of creationism in science classes in public schools has long been anathema. However, some schools, as seen in the Kitzmiller case, continue to attempt to "sneak in" creationism into school curricula, under the guise of intelligent design. Attempts continue into 2008, as well. As school officials nationwide continue to debate the inclusion of intelligent design or creationism in high school biology curricula, to give it "equal time" with evolution, even school officials are becoming casualties of the conflict.

North America
In the United States, 13% of biology teachers are openly sympathetic to teaching creationism, and 60% feel uncertain about teaching evolution. This leaves a relatively small segment of American teachers who are actively pursuing educating their students about the origin of biological diversity.

Texas School System
In October 2007, Chris Comer, a director of science curriculum for the Texas Education Agency, was terminated for mentioning in personal e-mail an event featuring an anti-intelligent design speaker, Barbara Forrest, author of the book "Creationism's Trojan Horse: the Wedge of Intelligent Design." This followed discussions during her employ that indicated Governor Rick Perry's support of intelligent design, impressed upon employees at meetings that were attended by the entire board of the Discovery Institute. However, there is still some hope; it looks like the Texas Board of Education is still solidly against intelligent design in the classroom.

Comer's termination may be in violation of federal law, as an infringement upon her rights to take a position contrary to the government in her private life, though as she did occupy something of a policy-making position, it may not.

Florida School System
The same may be occurring in Florida. Although fears were high, the school board eventually backed off... for now.

Louisiana
In 2008, Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the Louisiana Academic Freedom Act, a very thinly veiled attempt to introduce creationism into the classroom. In 2015, activist Zack Kopplin posted documents that show that Louisiana public school science teachers have organized to teach creationism in classrooms.

Europe
Like any cancer, creationism/intelligent design can metastasize....

There has been a growing tendency for creationists to push for it to be taught in schools. In 2007, the Council of Europe published a report with the summary:

The document as a whole makes interesting reading.

A subsequent document has the paragraphs as resolutions:

Of particular interest is the paragraph:

Which should be of interest to concerned Americans.

Australia
An essential element in the teaching of science is the encouragement of students and teachers to critically appraise the evidence for notions being taught as science. The Society states unequivocally that the dogmatic teaching of notions such as Creationism within a science curriculum stifles the development of critical thinking patterns in the developing mind and seriously compromises the best interests of objective public education. This could eventually hamper the advancement of science and technology as students take their places as leaders of future generations. Whilst classes do address the evidence for evolution, this is merely in the interests of critical thinking and application of the scientific method; no mention is made of ID or any "controversy".

South Korea
After a creationist campaign, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology seems to have caved in. At least some publishers are preparing evolution-free versions of things that still purport to be biology textbooks and will be used in Korean high schools.