[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?"

[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..

[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.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[cc-cookies]

Can someone please list reasons to not ratify the UN convention for the rights of the child. I've read it and there isn't anything that sounds potentially harmful to children. What am I missing?

Also, isn't is rather odd that only two countries haven't done so (one of them being the world most powerful, the other possibly the world's weakest)

[vaudine]

And supported by H.H.H. Clinton (Her Heinous Highness).

Another reason to run her out instead of vote her in.

vaudine

[Cincinatus' Wife]

In an interview with the Guardian, Katarina Tomasevski, special rapporteur on the right to education for the UN commission on human rights, said she believed the British government was in technical breach of the convention.

The Daily Telegraph has been running stories about the increasing number of politicians and teachers who send their children to private schools.

[StopGlobalWhining]

If comrade Tomasevski is not a member of the U.S. NEA they should make her an honorary member. She sounds like she'd fit right in.