Learning Globally

The Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a "universal curriculum" for teaching global citizenship, peace studies and equality of world cultures.

The goal is to devise a curriculum to teach "a set of culturally neutral universal values to which all people aspire," based on human rights, equality of the sexes and "open-mindedness to change and obligation to environmental protection and sustainable development."

George Walker, IB's director-general in Geneva, said in June that the program remains committed to changing children's values so they think globally, rather than in parochial national terms from their own country's viewpoint.

God said there would be a one-world government shortly before His return and now President Bush will help with the brainwashing of the kids who will be the citizens of this one-world system.

It is coming, and it is unstoppable. With this, and the Digital Angel chip that gets put under the skin, and the International Criminal Court, and the open borders with Mexico, everything is falling into place for a one-world existence.

Clinton did his part to further this along, and now Bush is doing his. I would express disapointment, if not for the fact that it is Bible prophecy being fulfilled. It is a little disheartening, though.

Not so fast. I'm not convinced that the first sentence is totally accurate. Besides, this program has been in the making since the 1960's read:
The program was originally devised in the mid-1960s for children of globe-trotting European diplomats, who wanted a standard curriculum that would lead to admission for graduates to any top-flight university in the world.

Bush didn't start this program. Its apparently been around here for a while:
The IB curriculum has been adopted by about 1,450 schools in 115 countries, including 502 schools in the United States. The program is in 55 primary, middle and secondary schools in the District, Maryland and Virginia.

This is the part that is scary to me.
An IB regulation accepted by participating American schools requires that all tests and written papers of American students sent to Europe for grading or evaluation "become the absolute property" of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in Geneva.

Wonder how this will affect homeschoolers. Think I'll email this article to HSLDA.

A related story.

Fairfax 'backlash' ousted IB program

By George Archibald
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Parents and teachers at Woodson High School in Fairfax succeeded in ousting the Geneva-based International Baccalaureate curriculum.

This is the first year that college-bound Woodson students are no longer enrolled in the European program pushed by the United Nations and have returned to the U.S. College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) program.

"The school was an AP school. They were just in the process of converting over to" the IB program, Fairfax County School Superintendent Daniel Domenech said of the Woodson battle that started in 1999.

There was "a significant backlash against the IB program" as he became county superintendent, Mr. Domenech said in an interview.

Woodson parents and teachers rebelled because they found that IB's required standard-level courses making up half the curriculum's two-year high school diploma program were not accepted by top-ranked Virginia colleges that their highly achieving children aspired to attend.

"It is the death knell," E.J. Nell Hurley, mother of four daughters in Fairfax public schools, said of the IB program.

Mr. Domenech credited Mrs. Hurley, an unsuccessful candidate for the Fairfax County School Board in elections Nov. 4, for leading the fight to remove the program from Woodson.

"The admissions director for the University of Virginia told us, 'If you are at an IB school and you are not going for the IB diploma, don't waste your time applying to UVa. or any other top-rated schools. Your child's application will go to the bottom of the admissions pile,' " Mrs. Hurley said in an interview.

She said the University of Virginia gave just nine academic credits to a J.E.B. Stuart High School graduate with an IB diploma, after two years of IB courses, while the university gave her oldest daughter, Ellen, 36 credits — a full year of college work — for AP courses taken at Woodson.

Mrs. Hurley said her younger daughter, Caitlin, told the J.E.B. Stuart graduate: "You did all that work and you got nine lousy credits?" She then said: "Mom, I'm not going to do all that work and get so little recognition for it. It's not worth it."

Bradley W. Richardson, director of IB North America in New York, said that while many colleges do not give credit for standard-level IB courses, "over 150 universities in North America now give credit for the full IB diploma and, therefore, are giving credit to standard levels."

Mrs. Hurley said she was inspired by teacher Susan H. Shue, chairwoman of Woodson's social studies department. Mrs. Hurley said Mrs. Shue stressed that IB was usurping control over the school program.

"She had the guts to stand there in front of the brand-new principal and the area director," Mrs. Hurley said of Mrs. Shue. Mrs. Shue did not wish to be interviewed. Mrs. Hurley said Mrs. Shue told school officials that "because the whole school has to become oriented around the IB program, the master schedule has to run around the IB students. ... That's part of the requirement to be an IB school, that the IB diploma is the premier drive on running the entire school, and it hurts every other student."

"this program has been in the making since the 1960's.."

Or even earlier to "e pluribus unim" Americans have always been at odds with the rest of the world with this 'all men are created equal' and 'give me your tired and poor' shtick. But when the Europeans call for "culturally neutral universal values' they mean for Americans to respect Europe but not the other way around. It's always been a one-way street. Remember the pacifists? Hitler and Stalin loved them- in America.

OK, it's time to get clear on the facts. Americans are only a twentieth of the worlds people but we've created over a fourth of the world's wealth. The rest of the world knows it and they hate it, because they know that it proves that the American way is superior while they've been struggling to prove their superiority (see live thread on Japanese racism). The fact is that America IS the world's powerhouse precisely because it has a culture open to good ideas from all over, not at all like those self centered, self-righteous old-world types.

That's why our culture is right and theirs is wrong!!

I think I need to go soak my head in cold water.

Reviving this thread since IB is a threat just like Governor’s School which still exist. This is a very serious issue even though the thread on Governor’s went from 2002-2007 I hope it will be kept open.

IB is International Baccalaureate in FULL SWING run by UNESCO and employs the same cult-like tactics to get kids to unlearn their parents values and instill them with UN values and world government ideologies. Money is paid to a Swiss entity and all jurisdiction for the school is Swiss.

Couple this with the idea that UN overseers are coming to watch our elections (except in Texas and Ala where they have rightly been run out on a rail) you need to keep an eye on what your kids are learning in the public schools even if there is no special program going on there.

Read more: www.mvsd-ib.org to find out what they are doing to your kids in International Baccalaureate as a quick overview of the components

Also, http://www.truthaboutib.com for stats and particulars.

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