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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.

1 posted on 01/18/2004 4:05:17 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
For a while, President Bush was telling the NWO to pound sand. Now things have changed, evidently.
2 posted on 01/18/2004 4:12:34 AM PST by 11B3 (Hillary is an Ankle.)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
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.

3 posted on 01/18/2004 5:57:13 AM PST by Boxsford
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
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."

4 posted on 01/18/2004 6:08:32 AM PST by Boxsford
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To: GiovannaNicoletta; Tailgunner Joe
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."

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

9 posted on 03/04/2004 2:31:01 PM PST by inquest (The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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