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.
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.