Should Evolution Be Taught in Schools?

I was watching my normal YouTube subscriptions today and one came up by a very wonderfully brilliant girl who has very strong opinions and tackles controversial world issues. This was a video response to an interview in which every Miss America candidate was asked the question "Should evolution be taught in schools?"
Now, Miss America candidates have been known to say some pretty dumb things. Miss Teen South Carolina, for example.

So, we know that slip ups are constantly being made, and it is a lot of pressure. But this is a completely different setting than the normal spur of the moment questions in front of a live audience. These girls are being asked in a closed environment in front of just a camera and probably a few crew members, and yet they still manage to blow me away with their not-thought-though answers. Most of them immediately went to the safe answer of "Yes, evolution should be taught, but so should religion. They should be able to see both sides and choose for themselves."
However, this statement has quite a few issues with it. The first and most important one to me is the close-mindedness many of them show towards religion. Although they say that all should be taught, this is a very clouded position to hold. When you say "all" do you really mean all? You mean every form of religion available and practiced? Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, ect? And what about the religions seen as madness by most, for example the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? (And, yes, this does exist. Google it.) Do you also want to include scientific theories that are considered nonsensical? For example, the belief that we live in a computer game. There are people (usually considered to be conspiracy theorists) who believe that we are in a simulated world. Are you suggesting that we teach this as well? On a less ridiculous scale, should hypnotism (seen both as fact and as made-up) be taught in schools?
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that we should not be teaching religion as fact in any public school setting. It doesn't matter what you believe, school is paid for by the state and we all know that church and state are separate. Another issue with that statement is the assumption that there are two sides to the argument. There are infinite opinions, so you can't limit the "sides" to just creationism and evolution.
I suppose the next problem to look at is the fact that this is a question at all. What is taught in school is NOT a moral issue and beliefs such as religion should never be brought up. Never. And before anyone goes thinking "Oh, well evolution is a theory and therefore not fact," to you I say, yes. So is gravity. Everything is a theory. That's science.
There were a few quotes that stood out to me. For example, Miss Indiana said

I think we should leave that up to the government. I'm not sure. I think a lot of people would have issues if evolution was taught in school, I think we should just leave that out of the equation.

This is just... Leave it out of the equation? Leave the entirety of the evolutionary theory, including natural selection which is very important for understanding animal and human behaviors, out of the equation? Or do you just mean you don't want to give an answer that will reflect negatively on you as a Miss America candidate? And might I point out that our government is controlled entirely by people like you. Yes, you do trust them to take care of your country and make certain decisions so you don't have to, but that doesn't mean you should hold no opinion on it!
Now, Miss Kentucky really blew me away, here.

I honestly don't think you can ever have too much knowledge on any subject. That's my personal view, but I do feel that evolution shouldn't be taught in school just because there's so many different views on it. So many different definitions on it. Like, how do you teach a child the true meaning of evolution when so many different cultures have their different beliefs. Sciences have their different theories. It's just not a good subject that I feel everyone will agree on in classrooms when kids come from all different backgrounds, different cultures, different beliefs so I just personally don't think it's a good topic for a school subject. At all.

So what you're saying is that you can't ever learn too much, but it's better if you didn't learn things that could be controversial. Do I even have to explain why that makes no sense?

The more learning you can get, the more educated you are and the more educated you are the better you come off.

Oh, alright Miss Massachusetts. So it's all about how others perceive you, then? I see.
I have like 30 good quotes I could reference and discuss, but... I just don't want to. All I know is that my kids will certainly be learning about evolution and they'd better not be taught religion in any public school unless as an elective that they chose in an unbiased learning environment. There are churches and private schools for religious discussions and preachings. I'd prefer the lines didn't cross.

Video in question:
Parody video by ZOMGitsCriss (note: I did not watch this until after writing this blog as I did not want other opinions to vary my reaction) :