Imagine being a biology teacher in Idiot America on the 1st day of class. The teacher starts explaining something about evolution. The students burst into tears, screaming "No!"

In October 2008 a group of about sixty American high-school teachers met at the Center for Science Education of Emory University, in Atlanta. Some of the horror stories they had to tell deserve wide attention. One teacher reported that students ‘burst into tears’ when told they would be studying evolution. Another teacher described how students repeatedly screamed ‘No!’ when he began talking about evolution in class. Another reported that pupils demanded to know why they had to learn about evolution, given that it was ‘only a theory’. Yet another teacher described how ‘churches train students to come to school with specific questions to ask to sabotage my lessons’.

– From page 434 of “The Greatest Show on Earth, The Evidence for Evolution” by Richard Dawkins