There is currently a great deal of controversy about what is taught in schools. It makes some people forget that many of the things that are controversial are first learned at home. Most children imitate things like religious and political beliefs that they see in their parents. If the parents do not attend church, it is not likely that Sunday school attendance will have a major effect on the child’s later church attendance. If parents have racist behavior, it is likely that children will mimic that behavior regardless of what is taught in schools. We have seen a similar concern about what is taught in schools in the past. In 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origin of the Species. It was the book that detailed the principles of evolution. In 1925, John Scopes went on trial for teaching evolution in Tennessee. Most people know about the trial. However, many people do not realize that it was part of a movement to deny the existence of evolution. The thought was that if it could be banned from schools, no one would ever hear of it again. As it turned out, no one actually heard about the movement to ban [...]