In most cases, students applying for admission to a UC school must show that they have taken a minimum number of pre-approved college prep courses at their high school. In order for courses to be approved, each high school must submit their curriculum in advance to the UC for approval.
 
The lawsuit contends that the UC school system has recently refused to approve over 150 courses that were intended to be taught by Christian, Catholic, and Jewish high schools merely because they were to be taught from a religious viewpoint. The lawsuit argues that the UC has a practice of requiring private religious schools to teach from a secular perspective if they want recognition of their college preparatory courses. Calvary Chapel and ACSI argue that the UC is attempting to force Christian schools to water down their teaching. 
 
The UC is a public agency and is required to remain neutral when it comes to religion, politics, or other philosophical viewpoints. Instead of remaining neutral, the UC is discriminating against our clients’ viewpoints because they are religiously based. 
 
This case is about the future of private religious education. Although private religious schools, like Calvary Chapel, may currently have sufficient college-prep courses previously approved by the UC, they are at risk of having future courses denied approval if they express any religious viewpoints.  
 
The appeal to the Ninth Circuit will argue that the District Judge applied the wrong legal principles as articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court and disregarded mountains of evidence showing the UC’s practice of rejecting courses merely because the officials disagree with the religious perspective from which a course may be taught. 
 
Calvary Chapel and ACSI specifically presented 38 courses that were denied credit because of their Christian viewpoints expressed. For example, the UC rejected one Calvary Chapel course titled “Christianity and Morality in American Literature” and stated, “Unfortunately, this course, while it has an interesting reading list, does not offer a non-biased approach to the subject matter.” Calvary Chapel questions why a private Christian school must teach morality from a non-biased perspective.

"... these words, which I command thee...shall be in thine heart... thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children...talk of them when thou sittest in thine house...when thou walkest by the way...when thou liest down...when thou risest up. " Deut. 6:6-7  What is required of thee, O man, but to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God. Micah 6:8

Dear Friends, we need to stand in the gap for our homeschooling brothers and sisters in California!  Time and time again laws begun in California have been adopted around the country.  As the saying goes "So goes California, so goes the country" it is TRUE and if you think this stuff can't happen where you live you are wrong!  I am not an alarmist but in this instance we need to join together and FIGHT for our rights as homeschoolers.