In the 1920's, the theory of evolution was not taught in schools as preliminary measure to avoid children being exposed to more risky behavior than they already had at this time. The 1920's were a time of sex, drinking and partying; however the small town school of Dayton Tennessee had been worried about the loss of Christianity in the students present in that small classroom, and educators have to be sure to keep in mind that all evidence they present to their students have a strong basis in fact and should steer clear from any statements that suggest a religious affiliation. .
As a result, if the Scope Trial had managed to make it to trial in present day, they would not have much of a case seeing as the evidence includes a lack of separation between education and religion and fringes a disregard to the Fifth Amendment. During the 1920's much of the laws regarding the separation of state and church were not as fined tuned as they are today due to the lack of cases regarding that issue, had they been the man referenced in the Scope trails would have a better case seeing that he was bound by his profession to teach the subject matter that had been in that text book. .
In the Scopes Trial and in the 1920's alike a certain way of life has been taught to those children and with all the changing from the post war economy's success and celebration period that had been happening the people in the economy wanted to preserve a way of thinking for those small town children. While children in schools today are exposed to current events and other tragedies in order to protect them from what may happen the children in this small town were sheltered by their elders who only wanted them to believe one way. Dayton's theory that the children would be better off not knowing more than one way of seeing things directly opposes the current method of "teaching the controversy" and best exemplifies the way that the teaching has changed throughout time.
