Not true. No debate is allowed in the school perhaps, but parents aren't helpless. If your child is being taught something in school, and you want them to see the argument from a different standpoint, teach them yourself. Don't rely on schools to be the only source of education for your children.
I can't count the number of times I'd come home from school, be asked "what did you learn today", relate the stories of that days lessons, and be asked "Hmm... and what about...?", which led to alternate ways of looking at nearly everything. Some were simply from the devil's advocate view, just to improve my rational and critical thinking skills and teach me to defend what I believe to be true. Others were intended to make me see there is more than one way to approach nearly every issue.
Point is, parents have more influence over their children than they believe. Disagree with what the school teaches? Fine. Tell your students that's what the school thinks, but challenge them to see things from another viewpoint as well.
Viewpoint? Hm?.....As in worldview?
The government schools have only two options: Godless worldview and God-centered. BOTH are a **religious** point of view because the existence of God can neither be proved or disproved! **BOTH** the God-centered and godless worldviews require **FAITH**!
So....When government **FORCES** a godless worldview on children, and its priests and priestesses ( misnamed “teachers”) **PREACH** the godless worldview faith everyday, then government is **ESTABLISHING** its godless religion of Secular Humanism. Evolution is merely one tenet of many that composes the official godless religion of government.
Our First Amendment should protect us from this government establishment of religion in its temples ( oops! “schools”) but it doesn't! People are waking up about it though. They are now beginning to realize that government temples ( misnamed “schools”) never were, are not now, and never can be religiously neutral.
No,....Parents should not be forced to undo the religious indoctrination foisted on their children by the police backed anointed ones ( misnamed “teachers”) in these oracles of godless “points of view”.
Regarding police: There are real bullets in those guns on the hip.
Given that you feel that way, I am certain you would have no objection to the government Taliban forcing your children into madrassas.
Gee! You could always discuss things when they got home, and they would be exposed to another viewpoint.