Religion in Education

[Raven_Writer]

I searched the board before posting incase this was already brought up, and I found nothing. Before I continue, I want to make sure that people understand that I'm not trying to make a "What's your religion..." or "How do you feel about religion..." thread, just a "In YOUR OPINION, is this right...".

Here's the story that created this thread:
In my AP English class, we're reading "Crime and Punishment" (Part I to be exact). During class, my teacher started bringing up a lot of references to Christianity. After about 20 minutes of listening to all these references, I asked the teacher to politely stop doing it (by raising my hand and whatnot). When I asked this, the teacher got a major attitude with me and this, and told me no, because of a bunch of reasons (I kind of tuned her out after she got an attitude).

Another story (happened to my friend):
In math class, she was taking a test, one with an extra credit question. When she got to the question, it said something about the famous satan/apple/adam/eve incident. ** Mind you this isn't really all that bad, since it was an extra credit question, so you weren't forced to answer this...and sorry for not really remembering the whole thing, it was a bit ago. **

One last story (also happened to my friend):
In her computer class, she had to do this worksheet for her daily assignment. One part of the worksheet said "Who were the first couple on Earth?" After reading this, she stood up & fought with the teacher because she (and I) feel that it shouldn't of been put on the worksheet...and to no suprise she lost (the people in class are rather ignorant and such...so she just kind of didn't do it instead).

My question to this is, do you think religion should be brought into public school teachings were it is not ment to be? If this had happened in a religion class, it would be ok (because you know, religion class talks about religion). But to be discussing a topic that has no relevance to the material presented, isn't that going a little to far?

This wouldn't be necessarily so bad though, if it wasn't one-sided. If, for example, the teachers referred to above, had used another religion along side of it, it'd be better (but still wrong in my opinion).

Please do keep in mind that I'm not asking what your religion is, I'm just asking if you think that brining religion into material in discussion is a justified thing to do.