Thanks for another reasoned reply. If only the rest of the board could follow your lead.

I wasn't ever taught the bible as fact, per se, but neither was it taught as fiction. We were actively encouraged to draw our conclusions in regards to the legitimacy of everything, but the parts that were taught as fact were those that I feel are just generally lessons that everyone should learn - how you should treat your fellow human beings, that material worth is not the definition of a person, that sort of thing. Life lessons taught as fact, using the bible as a mechanism to illustrate those lessons with no thought given to whether said book was fact or fiction. We could just as easily have been taught the same lessons using episodes of Star Trek The Next Generation, and I say this without meaning to denigrate either pieces of fiction. We were taught evolution as (currently, until/unless science proves differently, as is the way of science throughout history) incontrovertible fact I want to say as early as age 11, if not prior to that. I could be mistaken but my understanding is that in state schools now where I'm from, it's actually not permitted to teach creationism as fact.

I totally understand the situation regarding your legal pursuits and I won't press further. I do however wish both you and your family the best in that regard and for your daughter's new school.

And yes, I know you were just being a smart ass, but I felt it necessary to clarify my original point - I reread it and I didn't make myself clear. That was solely on me, not you, but thank you anyway.