<p>Well, we've seen the typical responses --- name-calling and then accusing me of posting under two names and then even threatening to shut down the thread because you don't like what we think.</p>
<p>I can assure you that ONY is a different person. And I know for a fact she does not post under different names.</p>
<p>I can also assure you I am a teacher --- how else would know of the waste and corruption that is our public educational system?</p>
<p>Afadad you said you were stunned that we have teachers like me in our children's lives.</p>
<p>I was very well-respected by students, parents and colleagues which is why they too were stunned when all this 'way forward' crap started fingering people who wouldn't go along with the 'agenda'. What would you think of a principal that keeps track of who a teacher eats lunch with? If this isn't reminiscent of some communist gulag I don't know what is. Tell me, why is this important? Because one might have an independent thought while eating lunch for 20 minutes by themselves? I could tell you stories that SHOULD concern everyone about how dogmatic and unbending these people are. </p>
<p>You are really so thankful that your teachers aren't like that? Like what? Teachers who think on their feet and are willing to DARE to challenge the things they are asked to do that don't make sense on principle? You would have been lucky to have a teacher like me.</p>
<p>If all you want is people who take orders, that is dangerous.</p>
<p>You asked if by chance, am I really involved with the teacher's union? I was forced to join in order to work like everyone else. First it was the NEA then it was the AFT. I have mixed feelings because on the one hand, they are liberals who use my money improperly but on the other hand they fought some of this wacky political nonsense that had teachers being treated like they were prisoners in a concentration camp.</p>
<p>You said "If yes, (that I was involved with a Union) then I already know the rest of the answers to the questions I was going to ask, so I won't ask."</p>
<p>I am not sure what that means.</p>
<p>As I said, the Union is not always as powerful as people think and often helps teacher against some of this bad stuff.</p>
<p>The real culprits who have taken over the educational system and corrupted it are far beyond our reach, unfortunately. But that doesn't mean we have to subjugate our teachers and kids to this stuff.</p>
<p>I stand by everything I said, and all my sources are the UN, UNESCO or the IBO itself.
You'd have to be living under a log for the last 50 years NOT to know that the UN and many people in high places in this country want a world authority and have long since dismissed government under the Constitution.</p>
<p>If you want to call preserving the Republic 'nationalism' and 'scary', go right ahead.
I prefer our original form of government to any foreign entity.
Even the NYT is calling for 'government by the bankers', just this week. If this recent coup d'etat by the ruling class didn't wake you up from your beer and taco induced snooze by the TV, I don't know what will.</p>
<p>Quote from IBO website from a graduate who now ascribes to the 'world court' something most of us who believe in the Constitutional Republic don't recognize as a legal government entity: (but apparently his education made him think it was - which was his purpose.) It did not take me long to find this, it came right from the IBO site itself and is very illustrative of what I have said all along. The fact that the IBO.org agreement with schools comes under the jurisdiction of the world court is written into their contracts.. if you would be so inclined to look that up..... here is the quote:</p>
<p>"IB graduate profile - Salim Ali Nakhjavani
Graduated from Champlain Regional College, Canada, in 1997.</p>
<p>"I received my International Baccalaureate diploma from Champlain Regional College, St Lambert Campus, Canada, in 1997, and then earned a law diploma from McGill University in Montreal and a Master of Law diploma, first class, from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in June 2002. I received a Whewell scholarship in international law, and I am now working in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. </p>
<p>The integrated IB curriculum has played a fundamental and unforgettable role in my education, in preparation for undergraduate and graduate studies in law, and in my early professional life at the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The capacity to think critically, developed across academic disciplines, from theatre to calculus, is a key benefit of the IB, and has been of central importance to me in maintaining a well-balanced and fruitful academic life. The other skills I developed as an IB student – the ability to plan and execute complex projects, manage competing demands and meet pressing deadlines – are essential in my current professional life.</p>
<p>Most of all, though, and beyond any mere intellectual benefit it has, the IB inculcates a true ethic of world citizenship, not as a naive ideal, not simply as an object of study, but as a living paradigm to explore."</p>
<p>Living paradigm indeed. HOW SAD.</p>
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