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Well, in my public school classroom, while I can't indoctrinate students and quite frankly I would feel that to be wrong, I will bring up evolution and the weaknesses of the theory because I will be teaching history and possibly journalism. The evo/creationist debate has a lot of interesting things that could be discussed in the context of history and since one main goal of history is critical thinking, I would also bring a bit of science into the debate and discuss how both sides argue their points via science and then ask the students to evaluate both arguments. It would be a great critical thinking exercise, but since it is a history class, I should keep thet science largely out of it and only use that for a critical thinking exercise.

My history teacher in HS brought the crevo/evo debate into class to discuss different ways of looking at the world (though he was an evo and basically mocked my views; he was not objective). I think it would be a good excercise for the first day of class to get students geared up to have to think critically. But unlike my HS teacher, I won't mock evolution, I will be fair and give their side and then the creationist side. I have no right to try to indoctrinate students; they must use their critical thinking skills themselves.