I know I'm not an expert teacher or genius by any stretch of the imagination, but hear me out. What is being taught or what you are teaching is not always what you believe or think is correct. When I went to Catholic high school, for example, I obviously did not agree with most of what was being taught in religion class, but I, for the most part, kept my mouth shut and just did what was asked of me. When questions such as, "who was the first pope" were asked, I would say, "the Catholic Church believes that Peter was the first pope. Ok, so my answer is correct, but I'm not affirming that belief. The same with teaching. I don't know that approaching a subject like evolution would be so hard to teach if I did it from the stand point of "Scientists have concluded that such and such happened this many years ago and blah blah blah." That's not giving any affirmation to it, yet I would be teaching what was required of me. I don't think this problem will ever be answered and as I have said before, now that religion is out of schools, I don't want just anybody bringing it back in. I don't know if any of that makes sense but that's my mid morning .02.
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