Legal Question in Constitutional Law in New Jersey

Re: viewpoint neutrality

No.

"Viewpoint neutrality" is required when part of the government (including a public school) imposes limits on the speech of others, but not when it speaks or promotes speech. The school could not forbid students to express doubt about global warming while allowing them to express belief in it, but that isn't what's happening here.

If the law worked as you suggest, geography teachers could be forced -- by the request of a child, no less -- to give equal time to people who doubt that the earth is round. (This may seem outlandish, but there are a lot of people who think schools should have to teach the supposed "other side" of another scientific issue that is almost as well-established.) Such a requirement would make no sense.