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Stace said:Hmm. I'd have to side with the University here. Universities are private schools in and of themselves, since they a)charge tuition; b)do not have to accept every applicant; c)can choose which course they teach......etc., etc.
When you break it down that way, it's one private school getting upset because another private school doesn't like some of their courses.
tryreading said:But its more than that - the University won't allow the credit because it says the courses leave out information that is required to go further in one's education.
Kind of like a prerequisite to qualify for a college course. You can't take Advanced Autocad until you've taken Intro to Autocad. And if you take Intro to Autocad in a course that leaves out required information, you still can't take Advanced. You'd be lost, unable to understand the next step, because you were underinformed or misinformed in the previous step. The University would be lowering its standards by giving credit for unqualified courses.
Stace said:This is very true. Wonder why those 4,000 Christian schools can't see that?
I don't understand why many Christians choose to oppose evolution. Was God not capable of causing it?
HU-210 said:Their religion is not about God, it is about a book describing the life of a 2000-year old prophet of whom they presume his lessons were meant to be applied in our current age.
Regarding this new trend with universities and lawsuits, I think this is a good thing. The outcome of this suit and various others will begin to settle the dispute religion and 'science' are having in the US and bring some definite closure. Why it is happening now with such media attention I am unsure of. The US has seen creationism and its attempt to go into schools before. I wonder whether in 60 years we'll be reliving this whole thing again..
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Just A Guy said:I'm going to have to go with the university as well. All other things aside, when push comes to shove, the case is about whether or not the university is "discriminating against them by setting admissions rules that violate their rights to freedom of speech and religion."
Personally, I'd have to say that setting admissions rules allows the school to teach anything they want in addition to standardized material. If they don't want to teach the standardized material, they don't have to, the course just won't be accepted by the university. Either way, the private school has the final say in what they are going to teach and their freedom of speech and freedom of religion are in no way being discriminated against.
The only way in which I see the school winning against the university would be if the courses did meet the guidelines given by the university and were just rejected because they were Christian. I doubt this is the case, but I really don't have any information that seems to back up my hunch.
Red-Phase said:Yes religion killed my dog too.
Keep up the demonizing.
tryreading said:Most of us have been pretty reasonable here. Why this response?
Stace said:No kidding....I wonder if he bothered to actually read the thread, or if he's trying to establish himself as a badass.
tryreading said:I bet he didn't read the article, either.
Sort of related to this thread, the school voucher system here in Florida was just ruled un-Constitutional by the District Court of Appeals. In the program, public money is spent sending kids to private schools, many of them religious. The case will likely be taken to the State Supreme Court next, as Jeb Bush is very unhappy with the decision.
Stace said:Haha, I wonder why ol' Jeb's unhappy? Good for your Court of Appeals....I certainly wouldn't want to pay for someone else's kid to attend a religious private school....can't wait to see what the Supreme Court says...
Axismaster said:I myself think public education should be semi-privatized, so I have no problem with tax dollars going to a voucher to send somebody to a Catholic or Protestant school, so long as they are also spent to send people to Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim schools as well. Just as long as it is not going to schools for Moonies, Scientologist, and other crazy businesses... er, uh, religions.
Axismaster said:I myself think public education should be semi-privatized, so I have no problem with tax dollars going to a voucher to send somebody to a Catholic or Protestant school, so long as they are also spent to send people to Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim schools as well. Just as long as it is not going to schools for Moonies, Scientologist, and other crazy businesses... er, uh, religions.
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