School tests breach UN convention, envoy claims

http://education.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4711608,00.html ^ | July 14, 2003 | Will Woodward

[attagirl]

Take note, everyone. WE NEVER WANT TO RATIFY THE UN CONVENTION FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, promoted by agenda-laden UNICEF

[Steely Glint]

Get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US. Immediately.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Why fight it? The world is going to Hell.

[attagirl]

ping

[Tacis]

Not to worry. This is just another call by a UNer for bribes, kickbacks, and payoffs to go away. Here, though, the UNer also has the income from the teachers' unions who want, as always, more pay for less work and responsibility.

As excessive as it it, the UNer's salary is barely adequate to maintain a luxurious and oppulent life style in NYC.

Any ultra-left wing America-hating, union teacher opposes objective targets for student because, over time, it demonstrates the differing results of different teachers and distinguishes between students who do well and students who do less well. The objective of the UN (and any who would see America fail) is that, at the end of the day when the student enters his/her home, the parent dosen't ask, "What did you learn in school today?," but, "How did school make you feel today?"

[eyespysomething]

Why fight it? The world is going to Hell.

Not if I can help it!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I wonder how we got by for so long without all the thinkers and planners at the UN commission on human rights ?

[rrrod]

yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ayn Rand wannabe]

Why fight it? The world is going to Hell.

Only if we let it.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

Article 29 says education should be "directed to the development of the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential".
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Guys, Not EVEN one word about teaching the "children" to read, write, add, and subtract, and giving them the tools to think and come to rational conclusions based on their own abilities. The U.N. wants to TRAIN your kids to "be good citizens of the world." Dogs and horses are "trained", children used to be "educated" in the "three Rs". What passes for education today is EVIL!!!

Not to mention the fact that the U.N. does not want the "states" to "fulfil government objectives rather than meet the needs of children", as defined by the omniscient "educators" of the United Nations. PURE UNADULTERATED EVIL!!!

AND, it is already in United States of America's schools despite the fact that we are NOT signatories to "THE UN CONVENTION FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD". Peace and love, George..

[attagirl]

Only two countries have not ratified: the United States and Somalia, which have signalled their intention to ratify by formally signing the Convention.

So, we're very close.

[attagirl]

this is the same UNICEF that wants sex education for all and children to be autonomous of their parents (except in financial matters)

[attagirl]

ping

[attagirl]

How could I forget?

[gsrinok]

It boils down to the fact that the UN wants our children to be sufficiently dumbed down so that they won't question being led by the nose by the internationalist "elites."

[BSunday]

she wondered whether the government wanted England "to become another Singapore" - where in a poll pupils aged 10-12 said they were more worried about failing their exams than about their parents dying.

This is one of those "shocking at first glance" statistics, but think about it - to a kid, which is more likely to happen, and therefore more to be worried about?? I think it's only common sense that they would be more worried about a test. Who the heck is going to worry about something that they think is never going to happen???

[stevio]

F.U.U.N.

[attagirl]

These are the DIPLOMATS, not the office workers!

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/74873.htm

May 4, 2003 -- A crazed mob of diplomats angry at being made to wait for lunch because of striking restaurant workers rioted in U.N. cafeterias Friday and looted them of thousands of dollars in food, booze and silverware.

"It was chaos, wild, something out of a war scene," an executive from the company taking over food services for the United Nations told Time magazine. "They took everything."

The food fight was sparked by an impromptu strike at the United Nations' five eateries.

Hungry diplomats were getting crabby, according to the magazine, so a high-ranking official ordered the cafeteria doors thrown open around 1 p.m. - and that's when all hell broke loose.

Two comments: 1. why was this suppressed and

2. George Bush signed on to UNESCO, the global school board wannabe

[Ayn Rand wannabe]

I remember laughing when I read about that originally.

[Coleus]

Article 29 says education should be "directed to the development of the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential". >>>

The dumbing down of the Western World and an end to Western Civilization, just what the Marxists want. The students in Singapore are among the brightest in the world those in England and the USA are what around 28th.

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Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, president of the World Federation of Education Associations (August 1927), quoted in the book International Understanding: Agencies Educating for a New World (1931)

"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people."

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