Can governments make more money? Sure they can — the federal reserve can print it, and we will pay the inflation tax while the central bankers get rich.

Oceans started warming 135 years ago, study suggests…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46927677/ns/us_news-environment/

Really? We are being honest in that we don’t see our children having to be subjected to your world view, the UN’s world view, or anyone’s world view while in the process of learning to read and write and do math. We see our children being taught facts and how to do things, as they are, not as you wish them to be.

If these are “half-baked assertions” then you’d best take it up with http://www.ibo.org, and the literature and materials that are proliferated directly from that group to the teachers and students. These are their assertions that we are protesting.

“You illustrate my assertions regarding the close-minded, fearful, and paranoid beliefs that undergird the opposition to IB.”

Your arguments are based on nothing but name-calling, in response to opposition to your political views being promoted in our classrooms.

Kids should NOT be forced into activism on the world’s problems – problems which they cannot possibly fully understand at their age. They should not be burdened with such things at grade 3, when getting their homework done is big enough. That is the ‘fearful’ part… knowing children at this age don’t have enough knowledge or experience under their belts to know whether they are being led… and used for political mules. Shameful.

“Your claim that “the U.S. Constitution is not allowed inside the school” is a complete fabrication regarding the district.”

It was merely one of many examples of numerous attempts to donate US Constitutions to schools, unaltered, and in the form that is supposed to be followed to this day, but which were refused for the very shallow reason of who it was that was donating them even though they were citizens of the United States and taxpayers in the district. That’s a very real fact. Yet, we complain about a foreign entity like the UN running our schools, and to you that is not a valid complaint?

“Neither am I aware of any field trips to Planned Parenthood from MVSD.”

Another example of something that has happened in a school right here in NH, a very real indication of education fraught with the progressive agenda.

‘Nor do I think it likely that ANY teacher in the district who does not like the program would be fearful of losing her/his job.”

You’re talking to one right now who did, in his district, because he simply wanted to teach without political indoctrination and without leaving the kids without a real teacher, not just ‘facilitator’ of the manipulatives.

“But I would expect any teacher working in the district who strongly dislikes the program to present more cogent and reasoned arguments for her/his positions than those half-baked assertions displayed above.”

There is nothing ‘half-baked’ about who is running the show for IB. The fact that you don’t see that foreign involvement and the promotion of the UN’s agenda as a ‘cogent reason’ to be concerned is troubling to us and shows that your mind is closed to anything else. Since when did education depend on some foreign club of mostly socialist countries who want other countries to disregard their nation status for more direction by them and the UN? You do not see this as a serious intrusion? Whew.

“And your comment about global warming/climate change–that “the planet is heating up and humans are the problem” being an “insane excuse”, betrays a staggering depth of willful ignorance about an issue on which 97%+ of climate scientists are in agreement.”

If you want to think that it is your right. 31,000 scientists and people with mere common sense agree that the earth has been around for millions of years and has gone through heating and cooling cycles scores of times without the benefit of human presence. Also that you are willing to ignore the fact that UN-employed scientists were willing to fudge the numbers and ‘hide the decline’ is troubling as well. But arguing political differences is not the point. It’s whether ANY politicization of our children’s education should be allowed to happen — a subject which you keep ignoring in favor of trying to emphasize that your views are the only views that are correct. This in and of itself indicates that you ADMIT there is a politicization going on at all.

Finally, you ought to do some reading about Maurice Strong and David Rockefeller, two of the world’s wealthiest oil magnates and why they create the climate change HOAX in the first place. Isn’t it the least bit troubling to you that the Rockefeller fund and others like it are what fuels groups like 350.org ? Your knowledge of this is so limited, it’s as if you have accepted it blindly like some religious zealot. Indeed they have made this climate change issue into the UN’s religion… and why? All for control.

“Your inability to acknowledge there is even the slightest validity to any of the points I raised betrays you.”

You have just proven my point once again. The matter is not whether your political agenda is different from mine, and I won’t agree to it, that’s an obvious given. (And likewise, your inability to acknowledge the validity of my point betrays YOU) It’s a question of why it is even a problem? It is a problem because you have no qualms about imposing that political agenda, with the help of some foreign entity, on MY CHILDREN, in the schools for which I PAY.

Which brings me to the matter once again of your lying. If you cannot stick to the facts, why should we trust our children with you and your foreign program? For example, the parents were told that MVSD would NOT be using IB materials or enforcing the IB mission statement and yet this is exactly what has been going on for 3 years. Why have you not addressed the question about your lying?

Also, in a public meeting, parents asked what you were actually then paying for, if this lie about not using materials or promoting the mission of the program, a main requirement of the program by the way, were true? (We know the answer, but would like to hear it from you)

It would seem that if what you were doing was correct or even legal, you would not have to lie about it.
Remember it is not your money that goes to pay for teachers salaries, school buildings, and yes, programs that are adopted.

We are not lying about what we see happening in our childrens’ classrooms. We are looking at materials, statements, requirements from the organization itself. and simply do not like it, nor even think it is legal. We have the right to protest it.

Your school district’s officials… what are they hiding?

Remember it’s not a question of what your OPINION is, it’s a question of whether your OPINION and ONLY your opinion should be taught as gospel to our children. The problem could be solved if facts were taught and children were allowed to think and come to their own conclusions.

Since you brought up the issue of global warming here are some facts:

- Man’s time on earth is miniscule compared to the total age of the earth
- Earth has gone through many heating and cooling cycles long before man was present on earth
- Children should be allowed to KNOW those facts, should they wish to come to some conclusion about global warming
- Children should NEVER be required to come to a conclusion, let alone should they ever be asked to agree with any certain conclusion, for the purpose of having them take ACTION on them, in ways we typically know as POLITICAL ACTIVISM – yet that is just what this program does.

If children want to believe global warming is only caused by humans and not the sun, and not the normal cycles of the earth, that’s all fine too, so long as you don’t ask them to DO anything about it. It would seem that this would be a fair and a-political way to teach. When they become adults, they will decide for themselves if they want to do anything about it.

IB is not about being fair or a-political, but about promoting the UN’s agenda, which is POLITICAL. Literacy is a barely even mentioned in their goals. To think you would deny these things that they have clearly stated, is laughable.

We say it’s a political view, and it is, and furthermore, the children are being asked to take action on it. This is fundamentally wrong. It might be YOUR view, but it is not OURS.

“You make sweeping claims regarding the Constitution, capitalism, and what it means to be an American. I’m sorry, but I don’t share your particular interpretation of these 3 concepts.”

Fact is, the Constitution was not meant to promote Marxism…

“You might wish to have sole claim to understanding them, but you don’t.”

Again we understand that it is not to promote Marxism, interventionism or redistribution of the wealth overseas….

“And I truly doubt that most Americans, when they have all the facts in hand on ANY given issue, will really have much in common with your crabbed, fearful, and twisted views on the issues of the day.”

I should not even address the name-calling. It proves nothing. Nothing is twisted about wanting the public schools, for which WE PAY DIRECTLY, to stop LYING to parents, all while claiming the high road and that they are teaching ‘values’. Is lying a “UN Value”?

New UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development and the Earth Charter

The Earth Charter Center on ESD in collaboration with the University for Peace are hosting a new UNESCO Chair.
See it for yourself.
http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/

Parents want to know what is going on, and why the district is behind such an organization such as IB.

You make sweeping claims regarding the Constitution, capitalism, and what it means to be an American. I’m sorry, but I don’t share your particular interpretation of these 3 concepts. You might wish to have sole claim to understanding them, but you don’t. And I truly doubt that most Americans, when they have all the facts in hand on ANY given issue, will really have much in common with your crabbed, fearful, and twisted views on the issues of the day.