Why not teach both?

[Prolescum]

By Toutatis, it's Great A'Tuin!

 

[lrkun]

I like how your school teaches. It leaves the choice to the person. ^,,.^ I would have loved to have gone to that type of school.

 

[SynapticMisfire]

When I was an undergraduate at university, I had to take a course during my third year that covered the historical background and philosophical underpinnings of the discipline of geography, which was the subject that I'd chosen to specialise in. I learned about early geographers and the emergence of geography as a field of study in ancient Greece, early attempts at map making (here be dragons and that kind of thing), different ways of thinking about time and space (one man, when asked how far it was from his village to where his camels grazed answered 'It depends'. The distance was 6 hours if he took his time, but the distance was only 2 hours if one of them was ill and he had to hurry to reach it), the social and scientific impact of the discovery of sea floor spreading and continental drift and arguments put forward against these discoveries, and other things of that nature.

In other words, I was taught the controversy. In my third year at university, when geography was the only subject that I was studying, there was space in the academic year to devote 20 hours of lectures and a couple of written assessments to learning about obsolete and alternative theories. In high school, there just isn't the time to delve into such esoteric aspects of a subject. Kids who're studying maths, chemistry, biology, geography, history, physics, art, music and a slew of other subjects within a single academic year only have time to learn the basics of each subject, and teaching the controversies for each subject would consume half of the available classroom time.

 

[Nashy19]

While they're at it, teachers should also tell of the Greek creation story, the Hindu creation story, various Native American creation stories, Norse creation myths, the Egyptian creation story, Chinese creation stories, the Shinto creation story, and especially the Zoroastrian creation story (so children could see where the Jews got it from.)

Here they manage to get the basic beliefs and traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism done in about 4 years, a class every two weeks.
Schools aren't ideal places to learn

 

[Stupid Peasant]

This has probably been said enough but -

Creationism/Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory
"A hypothesis (from Greek ὑπόθεσις; plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for an observable phenomenon. The term derives from the Greek, ὑποτιθέναι, hypotithenai meaning "to put under" or "to suppose." For a hypothesis to be put forward as a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on previous observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available scientific theories. Even though the words "hypothesis" and "theory" are often used synonymously in common and informal usage, a scientific hypothesis is not the same as a scientific theory. A working hypothesis is a provisionally accepted hypothesis."
~Wikipedia