Home Schooling vs. Universities
A lawuit claims the University of California is biased against students who were home-schooled in, among other things, the tenets of creationism. The University claims that the students do not meet their science requirements; the parents claim that the university is discriminating against their kid's religion.
This is, I think, only the tip of the iceberg. Home schooling has no set standards; only state schooling does. What happens when students applying for admission start saying things like:
"My mother didn't want me learning anything about that subject. She says it's filthy."
"Humans had H-bombs in ancient times. My teacher showed me a book . . ."
"Only commies think that."
"My teacher said that the Holocaust never happened."
"My teacher said that history was rewritten by the blacks and liberals to make it look like blacks were slaves once, so they can use guilt to dominate whites."
"Psychiatry is a hoax. Only EST works."
"Grades are a mysogenistic system of diminishing achievements. My empathic and psychic leves are sufficiently advanced for higher education."
And so on.
No doubt, new "universities" will spring up, willing to take these paying students, and issuing them whatever papers they want. Then we will start hearing about businesses being sued for not recognizing degrees from Fred's University, or whatever.
There are standards.
A degree means you have been taught this and this and this - belief not included.
When you can get a degree for being taught anything, correct or not, then no degree is worth anything.







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