<p>I am just stunned by the amount of people who are supposedly intelligent folks, but willing to buy into a program that openly states a goal that is counter to our form of government, and willing to pay extra for it as well. </p>
<p>It is bad enough we had Goals 2000 forced upon us by the feds... but then... everything they do to teachers is forced... Do you think a teacher who needs his or her job is going to go against teaching things they have been ordered to? Everything that happens in schools today is predetermined by reformers and consultants who come in an 'retrain' you to be agents of change. Now where have you heard THAT before? They even promise the results you want, in other words, they make the teachers THINK they had a say in what is taught and how, but the conclusion is foregone. It is called the Delphi Technique. Please look it up. I was one that disrupted it and that didn't get me any points. I was ready to retire but most teachers are not so they must pretend to drink the koolaid...it's one huge psychological experiment.</p>
<p>By the way, they dumped Cardiff because it was not multicultural enough -- it was too 'white'. How's that for blatant racism?</p>
<p>I have read this whole thread and not only has ObserverNY brought MUCH compelling information to this debate, with proof on paper, and in their own words, she is probably the most brilliant scholar of the IBO, having researched every aspect of it, that I have ever read.</p>
<p>For one thing, if this stuff is so on the up and up, why do school boards sneak it in like they did in my district, without much discussion or parental input? My school district started it in 2008 and are just having an informational session on it NOW. Thank God the parents will arrive with pitchforks after having looked over some of the IBO materials, tests and such.. There is a WEALTH of information at IBO/UNESCO's own sites as to the agenda. Surely you can read it for yourself. Accusing ONY of 'conspiracy' theories is a hollow charge.... she is objecting to the sames things I am, things I have seen from the organization itself...available to anyone willing to do a little digging on the IBO/UNESCO websites.</p>
<p>IB supporters are always full of themselves. Somehow a program taught by elitists produces more elitists as well as attracts other elitists as supporters...they are duped by their own egos.</p>
<p>As for the cult accusation, any organization that sells you a curriculum and also asks you to sign various mission statements that are decidedly political are indeed bordering on a cult.</p>
<p>Let me ask you this: Do you think it appropriate that a teacher must sign a compact that states he or she agrees to teach the 'mission and goals of world government'? I don't.</p>
<p>AND I REFUSED. I just offered anyone who taught with me to produce that contract and I would pay them $500. I did not keep a copy of it, because as soon as I got it I called a meeting and told them DO NOT SIGN. We ended up not having to sign, so at the time I never though to keep a copy but it so damning, I wish I had it now. My offer of $500 still stands if any of my former colleagues are reading this.</p>
<p>People are often asked to uphold the Constitution when sworn into office, but asking someone to uphold the UDHR -- ABOVE IT, is what is being done with this stuff. Why is this necessary?</p>
<p>Even without IB, Goals 2000 has a similar mission - to change schools into breeding grounds for social activists...even some of our GOP presidents have said we will someday, if things go their way, pledge allegiance to the UN... who dearly wants to be our government, our only government. That is how NGO's operate, and education is the way to reach almost 100% of the population in order to further their goals. This has been going on since John Dewey and it's been a slow process up to now. However, now that people are accepting world government without question, we are experiencing a 'quickening'...</p>
<p>They are not even afraid to admit their agenda any longer.</p>
<p>If you are afraid of 'nationalism' in the sense you don't think we should stick with our own Constitution, which is the only document that guarantees our rights, I feel sorry for you.. for your own education has been lacking. That to me is the scary thing. I think ONY said it well in post #96.</p>
<p>And on top of it, insult to injury is that we have to pay for this nonsense, to pledge allegiance to some foreign entity that wishes to be a government? Forget it!</p>
<p>And of course newspapers are all glowing about IB -- they are fully invested in this world government idea, as they have been bought and paid for since 1925...</p>
<p>As for the pennies in the milk cartons, they are doing worse than this now. Instead of being in school, kids are being brought to protest the war, or to protest anti-abortion protesters, or collect money for a school in a foreign country, or put on a bus to go see a certain presidential puppet speak.</p>
<p>How dare they.</p>
<p>Believe me, where I taught, it's been this way since 1980.. their way or the highway.</p>
<p>I could afford to take the highway but others can't. I have had people tell me their kids quit teaching after they saw what a politically charged HELL it was.</p>
<p>Some of you are so de-sensitized by what has been going on for so long, you don't even know you are biased.</p>
<p>The corruption and failure of our educational system was never more evident than this past election when voters had no idea who controlled congress or that socialism was not equal to capitalism or even the difference between the two or what the role of government ought to be.</p>
<p>But as I said, that is the goal here and the captive audience is the key to who controls us ultimately.</p>
<p>I leave you with these quotes from some very famous people, some Democrats, some Republicans, but all elitists... who have bought into the 'agenda'. Read them carefully.
They will hopefully show you why the press is biased, that the goal was always socialism/communism, the UN is not about peace, and there is no longer a two-party system, with one party wanting to protect the 'republic'.</p>
<p>"Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are...[a] National Department of Education...the studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society."</p>
<p>*****--William Z. Foster, Toward Soviet America, 1932 National Chairman of the American Communist Party (1933-44, 1945-57)</p>
<p>It might be tempting to leave the economic and social issues to others, there is now the challenge of economic and social crisis, which really means the challenge of globalization and the global governance. Unless we tackle the underlying distortions and imbalances in the global economy, unless we start the kind of global governance that is needed, we must expect more [political and military] conflicts and even more intractable ones. Economic and political security are closely interconnected.</p>
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<li>Kofi Annan, Secretary-General UN December 14, 1998 Year-End Review</li>
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<p>In 1991, George Bush, Sr. said, "My vision of a New World Order foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping*function." In 1992, he said, "It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."</p>
<p>"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." </p>
<p>-- David Rockefeller... Baden-Baden, Germany 1991</p>
<p>In the April, 1974 edition of the CFR publication, "Foreign Affairs," Columbia University Professor and CFR member Richard Gardner wrote a column entitled, "The Hard Road to World Order." In it, he called for "an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece." He named the following organizations that would help fulfill that objective: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Law of the Sea Conference, the World Food Conference, the World Population Conference, and of course, the United Nations. *</p>