International Baccalaureate (IB) • International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
IB Mission
"... The aim of all IB programmes is to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world...Three programs for students aged 3 to 19 help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills ...
• "To live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world."
• "To develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect."
• [To] "encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
FOREIGN BEGINNINGS AND INFLUENCES
United Nations
Although DENIED by IB supporters at the local level, IB is STRONGLY connected to the UN.
• UN is involved with input and approval of teaching material about global issues.
• UN holds the copyrights.
• UN essentially develops the IB movement:
• 1924 - International School of Geneva
• 1947 - United Nations International School (UNIS) founded in NY
• 1948 - United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) handbook by Marie Therese Maurette (then director of the IB school in Geneva) “Is there a way of teaching peace?”... teachers to play down whole concept of nationality as a source of pride or pity, introduce a new geography where their students have contact with the world before they ever see a map of their own country, not teach history BEFORE the age of 12; teach 2 languages - 2 modes of thought.
• 1949 - UNESCO convenes the Conference of Internationally-minded schools (CIS)
• 1968 - IBO registered in Geneva, Switzerland
United Nations Educational Scientific Organization (UNESCO)
• “IB has been recognized as an NGO (Non Governmental Organization) of UNESCO since 1970. IB representatives participate regularly in UNESCO meetings and consult."
• IB is promoted and funded by the UN and the Federal Government.
• On July 24 2009, our President’s department of education announced that he would make sure that all of our education standards in America were tied to International benchmarks.
• UNESCO develops the international benchmarks.
• UNESCO plays a tremendous role in the writing, maintenance, and implementation of the IB curriculum.
IB AT A GLANCE
• Home base in Geneva, Switzerland
• New IB global center opened in 9/2010 in the Hague, Netherlands and Maryland, USA.
• There are 1095 IB World Schools in the US (93% in public schools).
• There are 14 schools in WISCONSIN.
• K -12 program
• PYP (Primary years program 3-11) - ALL children - mandatory participation
• MYP (Middle years program 11-15) - ALL children
• DP(Diploma program 16-19)
• International Baccalaureate® Career-related Certificate (IBCC) is vocational training "to extend the access of an IB education to a greater number of students" (pilot program in process completion expected Sept 2011). There are "three strands to its core:
• "A community and service programme - this emphasises partnership and the principles of service learning
• An approaches to learning course - this emphasises the development of transferrable skills
• Areflective project - based on exploring the ethical dimensions associated with an issue related to the student’s career-related studies" (emphasis added)
IB Cautions
Red Flag Philosophy
• IB programs focus on OUTCOMES; use theories and practices from the ROGRESSIVE/HUMANISTIC ideology. Now called CONSTRUCTIVISIM, with increased outside meddling in local and state education.
• IB philosophy is about intercultural understanding and respect (i.e., multiculturalism-all cultures are equal with denigration and criticism of fundamental Western worldviews).
• IB philosophy is anti-American.
• IB philosophy is anti-God.
• IB philosophy is anti-capitalist.
• IB philosophy is about global citizenship.
• IB philosophy is about social justice.
• IB philosophy is about tolerance - outcomes based on feelings, attitudes, values, beliefs.
• IB philosophy is about group consensus/cooperative learning (i.e., group learning, suppression of personal convictions and values in order for all to agree; age of collectivism- socialism-not individualism).
• IB is about a "curriculum" that embeds one world propaganda.
Red Flag Control
• IB results in ultimate elimination of the HONORS and AP programs in smaller schools.
• IB programs may superficially appear to be a remedy for academic decline, BUT it focuses on AFFECTIVE goals, such as values, attitudes.
• IBO claims intellectual property rights to student work to be used by IBO for any purpose it deems appropriate.
• No local control - control over CONTENT and PURPOSE of education is TRANSFERRED TO Geneva, Switzerland.
• Loss of neighborhood school choice.
• RULES AND REGULATIONS are under SWISS JURISDICTION.
• DISPUTES - settled in Geneva, Switzerland via an “arbitrator” in accordance with the SWISS RULES OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.
The High Cost of IB
• Most instigated without general public knowledge or taxpayer approval
• High cost - (school pays per school, per program, per student annual fee, teacher trainings and mandated conferences, including travel and expenses at exotic locations, program evaluation fees every 4-5 years, annual student fee per exam, special IB coordinators/supervisors).
• The average expense is approx $200,000 per year, per school, with fees on the rise.
• Initial seed money usually from federal funds.
• Communities see increasing tax levies to pay these exponentially rising fees, with no opt out.
Questions Worth Asking
Why is the UN funding and promoting this curriculum?
Why would Americans be willing to adopt this and have their children indoctrinated in this way?
Assembled by Adriana Bodnar