At my high school, mid-1990s, we didn’t learn about it all. Our biology textbook had a chapter on evolution. As far as I can recall there was nothing about creationism or intelligent design in there. But we just skipped over any discussion about the origins of man.
My guess is the teacher probably didn’t want to make waves and get calls from irate parents in this conservative Midwestern town.
As a side note, I remember once attending a church youth group meeting and a science teacher from one of the middle schools in the area coming in and talking about how evolution was basically a load of bull.
I meant to say:
“At my high school, mid-1990s, we didn’t learn about it at all.”
I left out the “at.”
Catholic School. Covered it in most science books.
Catholic church accepts evolution, and sees Genesis and other creationist views as nothing more than allegories, stories, lessons, etc.
It was covered as far back as I could remember (prob 3rd grade) and routinely as part of High School biology.
Born and raised in the Arch Diocese Philadelphia.
I don’t remember it being covered at all. If it was, I’ve forgotten about it. And I remember a lot of what we learned in science.
This was in the 70s in western New York.
I remember studying abiogenesis, and the lesson went from there. It was touched on in high school - much more detailed in college, of course.
1994 - Freshman History.
My history teacher started the year with the big bang and taught us about evolution, the birth of religions (focusing on, I think 8 major religions), and continued on to all the stuff normal history teachers focus on (wars, treaties).
He was the best history teacher ever.
I don’t think Evolution/Natural Selection was even touched with a barge-pole at my schools. I went to a C of E Primary school. And the High School probably had religious connections too. Hence no heretical Evolution stuff.
I learned about evolution by myself.
High school in Chicago in the mid-nineties, we learned about it just the same as any other section in the Bio textbook. No controversy.
Early 90s, Florida public school. I happened to have a science teacher who considered himself a bit of a maverick AND was a major anti-BS kind of guy. The first unit in any of his three classes (biology, marine biology, or zoology) was a run down on evolution and the progression of life. Great teacher, but he turned out to be fairly sketchy on a personal level.
I went to high school in Australia in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and never studied biology, so I didn’t learn about evolution there. However, evolution was not a big political or religious issue there. If people thought about Darwin’s theories at all, they’d just have accepted it as part of science, with nothing at all to do with religion.
We learned the basics in elementary school in Oklahoma in the mid 80’s. Simple stuff like who Charles Darwin was and stuff about dinosaurs and how they turned into birds. Which tripped us all out and nobody really believed the teacher even though she kept insisting. I remember a trip into Oklahoma City to a musuem with dinosaur bones and other stuff. That trip is what started my life long love affair with dinos.
Didn’t really learn much else until High School out here is southern California in the early 90’s. My freshman history teacher did a section on it. He was awesome because he was also the drama teacher and he would act things out. One thing I’ll never forget is him telling us about early homonids and how evolution selects* for better traits.
Well he was telling us about how one day some homonid was wondering about with his buddies and they heard a noise, (At this point he was walking around like a chimp making monkey noises and then he stopped and looked off to the side and went silent and then scuttled off all chimp like) and it scared them so they scuttled off. But there was one who when he heard they noise and stopped he stood up to look around, (at this point he crouches back down into monkey mode but then stands straight up with the goofiest look on his face and looks around, which made the class laugh, and then sort of jogs across the classroom) and he went on to explain how the homonid who could stand erect and run away had a better chance of surviving than his buddies and was able to pass on his genes.
He was a great teacher. He made learning an adventure.
*not the best word to use but it conveys the idea
We were never taught Creationism in my Catholic school either. As was mentioned before, they never held it to be literal truth. (They were not blind to the over whelming evidence to the contrary.)
I doubt you’d find C/ID in any Biology text, etc, because it isn’t a science.
High school bio in 1995 in a small South Texas town. The evolution unit was important and we had a lot of fun with it. Our teacher came right out and said:
“This is not a class about belief. This is a science class. Science is based on observation and deduction, and we will be reviewing the scientific method before getting into evolution. Some people do have religious views against evolution, and I encourage you to speak with your family and your pastor if you have questions on that aspect. But I’m here to teach you the science and how we reach these conclusions.”
ETA: This was two years after we had to watch a video about the evils of satanic cults during Physical Science in 8th grade. I am not kidding. Also, the local DARE group – called YUEDA in our area – had a conference on personal safety meant to range from drugs to self-defense. They had a class on recognizing satanic symbols. Everything from goat heads and pentacles to unicorn horns, ankhs, and peace symbols. I irritated the hell out of the guy teaching that class. 
In the 1999-2000 school year, I remember my high school biology teacher drawing a line on the board and putting evolution on one end and creationism on the other. She then went on to explain how most people’s beliefs fell on a spectrum between the two ideas and that they weren’t mutually exclusive, but since she was a science teacher, she would teach the theory espoused by most scientists.
It was taught in high school by a NUN.
And no, she didn’t say we’d burn in hell if we believed it.
I went to high school in the mid-90s as well.
It was briefly discussed as part of our Biology curriculum (probably grade 10, but don’t quote me on that).
We also covered some of it in my grade 11 Ancient History class, since one of the early lessons delved into ancient hominids and some of the more significant discoveries like the Lucy skeleton… this I definitely remember because one of my classmates walked out of the classroom in protest - he was a fundamentalist Christian and, as we learned that day, an adamant creationist.
Come to think of it, that was probably the first time I learned that there were some people who didn’t buy into evolution. The official curriculum didn’t touch on creationism at all… in Ontario, that sort of discussion has been restricted to religion-related classes where it belongs.
Public high school, mid-90’s. We did not learn about evolution at all in biology. Nor did we learn about the human body, though (“You’ll study that in Health class!” except we didn’t!), so it is very possible it had more to do with it being covered in Chapter X, where X > #chapters-we-actually-covered. We also skipped the probability and statistics sections in math every year for a number of years, any sort of stat mech discussion in both chemistry and physics, and anything that happened after 1940 in US History (oh, no, wait, she mentioned the Bay of Pigs in class one day) for similar reasons.
Oh, but there was a bit in Chapter 6 or so about those experiments that zapped sludge to make proteins. So I guess we must have covered it a little. I totally forgot about that! But it wasn’t made a big deal of, either way.
Another Catholic here. We started learning the basics in fourth grade – our science teacher (another nun) had a woman from the local museum come and teach us about how the earth was formed, and how life began to develope over the ages. (But only the very basic, general stuff, of course)
After that, we didn’t start studying anything until seventh grade, and from then on, I didn’t get into it until high school (public school).
(This would have been in the mid-80s to the mid-90s)
Public high school science class, early 80’s. Presented straight forward and without controversy.
Another Catholic. In elementary school and junior high we were taught that all life evolved from something more primitive, going back to the idea of a primodial ooze. And evolution was still on-going.
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