By Anna M. Sewell. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 1067
The sinful nature of humankind is not a danger often discussed in American government textbooks. In fact, such reflections are typically reserved for the pulpit. Nonetheless, at Calvary Chapel Christian School (“CCCS”), high school students are exposed to this language in their government book, they encounter Bible verses in their physics book, and they use an American history textbook which claims “progressives had a faulty view of the nature of man.” As a routine administrative matter, the high school submitted the courses that use these texts to the University of California (“UC”) for acceptance as college preparatory courses under the University‟s pre-college curricula policy for undergraduate admissions, called the “a-g” subject requirements because each letter represents one of the seven required high school subjects. [keep reading]