{"id":831,"date":"2013-02-20T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/?p=831"},"modified":"2015-03-29T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T23:48:26","slug":"letter-from-new-zealand-ib-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/2013\/02\/20\/letter-from-new-zealand-ib-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from New Zealand IB Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student from New Zealand recently sent this letter to the IB &#8216;watchers&#8217; to tell his story about the follies of the program.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/truthaboutib.com\/images\/Dear_truth_about_IB.pdf\">Letter from New Zealand<\/a> he states that IBers are becoming more judgemental, and that the word &#8216;rigorous&#8217; is overly used to describe the program in marketing campaigns.He says that the range of requirements are designed to &#8220;indoctrinate us on the importance of &#8220;globalization&#8221;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The most disturbing comment gleaned from the letter was that IB really rams it into students heads &#8220;with the latest of wishy-washy religious propaganda, climate change propaganda, AIDS propaganda, propaganda against Christianity, propaganda against America, mother earth propaganda (somehow I deeply suspect it is related to New Age or Pantheism)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/truthaboutib.com\/images\/Dear_truth_about_IB.pdf\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student from New Zealand recently sent this letter to the IB &#8216;watchers&#8217; to tell his story about the follies of the program. In his Letter from New Zealand he states that IBers are becoming more judgemental, and that the word &#8216;rigorous&#8217; is overly used to describe the program in marketing campaigns.He says that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-general","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}