The teaching of creation has not been banned in the US curriculum. It is legal for teachers to teach creation in the classroom. It was the ruling that teachers be mandated to teach creation that was struck down by the court. They must do so with the permission of their headmasters, but it is not against the law to teach creation in school.
Generations ago children had no option but to go out and work, for there was no free education system to speak of, and the only way you could stay off the streets was to go out and work. Children should be able to have a childhood and an education.