[FUBAR-BDHR]

Just caught something about this on CNN.  Some court ruling or something about schools (I assume colleges) being allowed to reject any credits from school that don't teach evolution.  Anyone heard anything on this?

[MP-Ryan]

Just looked and didn't find anything.  If such a ruling exists, it's brilliant.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Found something but I don't know if this is this is it.  Nothing on CNN's site yet. 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/BAQT129NMG.DTL&tsp=1

[Mars]

Although I agree with the principle,  I worry about the students involved.

Just because you went to Redneck High School and got taught BS doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to go to better college.

[MP-Ryan]

Although I agree with the principle,  I worry about the students involved.

Just because you went to Redneck High School and got taught BS doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to go to better college.

Read the full article.  They're not recognizing courses which do not teach multiple viewpoints or critical thinking skills - in short, the kinds of courses which honestly shouldn't help get you into college.  They say straight out that they'll take SAT scores in lieu of course credits if the student's courses are ineligible.

Besides, it puts the issue to the parents - if you want your kids to actually be educated, then put them in a school that actually educates instead of implanting them with nothing more than doctrine (of any type).

Charles Robinson, the university's vice president for legal affairs, said the ruling "confirms that UC may apply the same admissions standards to all students and to all high schools without regard to their religious affiliations." What the plaintiffs seek, he said, is a "religious exemption from regular admissions standards."

The suit, filed in 2005, challenged UC's review of high school courses taken by would-be applicants to the 10-campus system. Most students qualify by taking an approved set of college preparatory classes; students whose courses lack UC approval can remain eligible by scoring well in those subjects on the Scholastic Assessment Test.

Christian schools in the suit accused the university of rejecting courses that include any religious viewpoint, "any instance of God's guidance of history, or any alternative ... to evolution."

But Otero said in March that the university has approved many courses containing religious material and viewpoints, including some that use such texts as "Chemistry for Christian Schools" and "Biology: God's Living Creation," or that include scientific discussions of creationism as well as evolution.

UC denies credit to courses that rely largely or entirely on material stressing supernatural over historic or scientific explanations, though it has approved such texts as supplemental reading, the judge said.

For example, in Friday's ruling, he upheld the university's rejection of a history course called Christianity's Influence on America. According to a UC professor on the course review committee, the primary text, published by Bob Jones University, "instructs that the Bible is the unerring source for analysis of historical events" and evaluates historical figures based on their religious motivations.

Another rejected text, "Biology for Christian Schools," declares on the first page that "if (scientific) conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong," Otero said.

He also said the Christian schools presented no evidence that the university's decisions were motivated by hostility to religion.

UC attorney Christopher Patti said Tuesday that the judge assessed the review process accurately.

"We evaluate the courses to see whether they prepare these kids to come to college at UC," he said. "There was no evidence that these students were in fact denied the ability to come to the university."

[Solatar]

Sounds fair to me. It just seems like an extension of "if your class doesn't meet the curriculum, we won't take it". I went to a Catholic High School for four years, and none of my four theology classes counted for college admission. I didn't expect them to either. Mind you they were church history, or classes on religion that didn't touch science or history. When they did touch history, they did it without a Bible in sight. Nothing like Biology for Catholics or something equally as distasteful.