"(The kids are being used) but it is by their parents, not the university."
I can tell you are not a mom of one of these kids, we just want our kids to attend a high school that is both safe and academically sound, Christian Schools in CA are the best choice for those reasons. People who think we are putting our kids on those schools just to prove a point do not know what it is like raise kids in CA today.
It is just the opposite this is the university making a big deal over nothing, for example Thirty years ago, children would have not been selectively weeded out to prove a point by Universities such that Christian values cannot be taught along side secular values outside the University which has nothing to do with the kids academic potential, this is the UC doings to prove a point that Christian values are not worthy academically in today’s climate since Christians are no longer the majority.
We parents are just trying to give our kids the best education possible, in very a very difficult environment, that is hostel to both Christians and western values in CA today.
The public schools across the country are bad. There are other choices than Fundamentalist Christian Schools that offer good educations (Catholic Schools for one).
I am sure many of these schools do a good job in English and Math, maybe even history. But when you've been told for 18 years that science is lies and the realm of atheisism, then a huge segment of life is cut off for you.
It is the parents that are responsible for this and no one else, including the UC system.
I think that this may be a national problem. My daughter got a 29 on the ACT but one of our local state subsidized universities wouldn't accept her Christian HS diploma (a school that had been around for over 20 years)
Another state university required higher minimum ACT scores if you didn't graduate from a public HS