Hindu Parents Lose Challenge to California History Curriculum

A group challenging the California public school history curriculum failed to allege instructions for teaching about Hinduism discriminated against the religion compared to others, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday in declining to revive the case.

Parents of Hindu children alleged that certain curriculum materials carried a hostile and denigrating message about the origins of Hinduism when compared with similar provisions relating to other religions. Some descriptions of Hinduism in the curriculum outlines were secular and disparaging when read alongside the descriptions of other religions, and others associated Hinduism with ancient India’s caste system, which put the religion in a negative ...