The reason, of course, is that these schools are catering to religious Jews, whose acceptance of evolution is inversely proportional to their religiosity. The government may deny that, but I can’t see any other reasons. The school system is not supposed to dumb down its curriculum to avoid offending the religious.
This is actually a common result of making this debate too contentious. Was the Scopes Trial a failure or success for those opposing evolution?
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One the one hand, they lost, and could not legally stop teaching evolution in public schools.
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On the other hand, the trial was such a mess that public schools stopped teaching evolution any ways, to avoid the controversy.
So they lost, but they won. This is all the more reason we need to press for a less contentious approach to the conversation.