Are they teaching the history of the Bible or teaching the Bible as if it is history?

Some benefit to society might come from teaching children a reasonable account of the mixed nature of the text of the Bible. Everyone should know that the Bible as we think of it today is the product of many different authors using many different styles and serving many different cultural agendas. An awareness that the Bible contains myth, parable, fable, poetry, and prophecy as well as literal history is a good thing, both for Christianity and society.

It would also help the overall situation, I think, if people learned about the evolution of the current Bible from a plethora of scattered ancient documents to the present day collection of officially recognized scripture. The lengthy, laborious, and emotional church-council meeting process of canonization should be especially enlightening