Denying Students Preparation

Creation in Christian Classrooms Challenged [Excerpts]

The American media were heavily reporting [August 13, 2008] that a federal judge in California ruled that the large University of California school system can decline to accept coursework taken by students from Christian high schools that teach that the Bible is infallible. Plaintiffs representing the schools had argued that the university system was violating the constitutional rights of students applying to U.C. who attended schools where classes were partly based on Christian science textbooks.

U.C. officials argued that such instruction made applicants ill-prepared to enter its university system. In essence, the court on Wednesday was establishing the constitutionality of the university system’s policies in evaluating the qualifications of applicants for admission to its many schools.

Judge S. James Otero, in deciding in favor of the U.C. system this week, declared that he rejected the Christian schools’ arguments because the university had, in his mind, convincingly argued that the curricula of the schools in question did not teach the required science, history, and critical thinking. The judge also said the plaintiffs failed to show anti-religious hostility on the part of the university system.

www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2008/08/14/creation-california-classrooms-challenged

[TBC: In view of the demonstrated performance of students from Bible honoring Christian High Schools, it is difficult to say how such students are "ill-prepared."]