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"I want to make one thing clear. This war against our constitution is not being fought way off in Madagascar or in Mandalay. It is being fought here—in our schools, our colleges, our churches, our women’s clubs. It is being fought with our money, channeled through the State Department. It is being fought twenty-four hours a day—while we remain asleep. How many of you Senators know what the UN is doing to change the teaching of the children in your own home town? The UN is at work there, every day and night, changing the teachers, changing the teaching materials, changing the very words and tones—changing all the essential ideas which we imagine our schools are teaching to our young folks. How in the name of Heaven are we to sit here, approve these programs, appropriate our own people’s money—for such outrageous “orientation” of our own children, and of the men and women who teach our children, in this Nation’s schools?"
-- William Jenner
(1908-1985) U.S. Senator (IN-R)
Source: Congressional Record (1952)
Here is what IB says in their own words:
http://www.ibo.org/council/members/seefried/speeches/heartsminds.cfm
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It is also a matter of teaching students that the “right” decision is not always clear-cut and that they have to learn to live and survive with moral uncertainty. But this moral uncertainty must be underpinned by values which they have to be taught. The question will always be asked: “But which values are you referring to?” All cultures share a number of common values and the first step would be to teach these, with the main one being not to do to others what we would not have them do to us. I believe that all cultures and traditions are worthy of respect insofar as they are respectable and that they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved by all the member states of the United Nations. Since 1948, this declaration should have been disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions in the member states. So a first step would be to check this is being done and where this is not the case, to remedy the situation as soon as possible. END
The goal is spelled out that the teaching of “values” to students must be done by promoting the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. However this document which spells out the UN’s vision of human rights, conflicts with the individual rights as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
The UNDHR Article 29 states:
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations
Under the Declaration of Independence, the purpose of the government is to protect the natural rights of each individual. The unalienable rights. Under the UNHDR, human rights cannot be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Under the US Declaration of Independence, we are born with rights and government exists to protect them. Under the UNHDR, government grants, restricts or withdraws your rights according to its needs.
This is a VALUES based program. I’m not seeing that the values are coming from : the parents, community or even the United States. The values to be instilled come from the United Nations : http://www.ibo.org/ibap/conference/documents/Vardy.ppt
You know I have heard that the district was looking for a ‘values based program’ but who’s values are they looking for? We have family values and values based in our faith in our household. I don’t want another government’s faith or another families faith or someone’s religious beliefs to overshadow what we have taught our child. It is hard enough to be a parent and try to instill values in your child that will help them grow, get along with others, and be able to think, I don’t need someone in the school system trying to get my child to think in an other way, or overshadow the values we have instilled in our home or question our faith.
Here is one school in Bonn that admits the connection to UNESCO and worse yet, that it is ‘humanist’ in orientation.
“The International Baccalaureate Organisation (IB) is a worldwide nongovernmental educational organisation with links to UNESCO. The organisation’s mission is humanist in orientation and stresses international understanding. According to the IB, these aims are embodied in the structure and content of the upper secondary or Diploma Programme curriculum. “