In light of the following document, we are forced to ask:

Do we want a foreign entity controlling the way our children are educated with a “universal curriculum framework for peace education”?

Do we want an organization that at one time appointed Sadam Hussein to the post of Human Rights Advocate to influence how our children will be educated under the guise of an “international education system”?

Do we want our children taught to conform to the values, beliefs and behaviors of a “world government system”?

Do we want our school system forced to travel to Geneva, Switzerland to challenge a dispute before an arbitrator appointed by a chamber of commerce?  If we need a chamber’s involvement, Stow already has one.

What does a chamber of commerce have to do with this level of education anyhow?

Our Constitution and other foundational documents are directly opposed to the tenets of the IB curriculum and , indeed, are not even taught in the program.

Do we want our children to be influenced to  “not follow a particular political system” or to pay no heed to “any particular nation”?

Do we want a program that advocates circumventing our elected officials?

Do we really need to send more money to foreign countries?

ARE WE WILLING TO PAY THE HIGHLY EXPENSIVE  FEES, MANY TO BE INCURRED ANNUALLY, TO RISK TEACHING OUR CHILDREN SOMETHING THAT MAY ONLY BE A VERY EXPENSIVE PASSING EDUCATIONAL FAD (there have been many in the past)?

AMERICAN LEGION RESOLUTION

NUMBER 31

(In Its Entirety)

 

RESOLUTION NO:   31

SUBJECT:   International Baccalaureate Organization of Geneva, Switzerland

 

WHEREAS,  The international Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) sponsors the International Baccalaureate Program (IB ) in relationship with the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);  and

 WHEREAS,  this “relationship” has formed what it called a universal  “curriculum framework for peace education”;  and

 WHEREAS,  IB is a program of UNESCO developed for the purpose of creating what UNESCO calls an “international education system”;  and

 WHEREAS,  According to UNESCO, the  worldview taught by IB includes the promotion of the Earth Charter (a religious/pantheistic document).  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which views human right the same way Communist countries view human rights) and multiculturalism (which is based on the ideology of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci);  and

 WHEREAS,  IB is structured to change the attitudes, values, beliefs and behavior of its students to conform to the “world government system”; and

 WHEREAS,  IB is a transformational system of education which exists to promote internationalism,  and

 WHEREAS,  Dr. Ian Hill, Deputy Director of IBO, said that the primary goal of IBO is the promotion of “world citizenship”.  (In his article, “Curriculum Development and Ethics in International Education”, given at the UN Disarmament Forum, 2001);  and

 WHEREAS,  Any arbitration of disputes between American public schools and the IBO:  “shall be finally settled by one arbitrator in accordance with the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce.  The seat of the arbitration shall be Geneva, Switzerland”;  and

 WHEREAS,   America’s foundational principles of national sovereignty, natural law and inalienable rights are at odds with the IB curriculum and are not taught;  and

 WHEREAS,  IBO explicitly states that its curriculum does not follow the political system of any particular nation, including the United States of America;  and

 WHEREAS,  IB programs have currently infiltrated, with the Department of Education’s approval, 1,367 schools across the nation; 717 high school programs; 405 middle school programs; and 245 primary grade programs as of November 3, 2010; and

 WHEREAS,  The international education system developed by UNESCO and the worldview taught through the IB curriculum are in direct conflict with the American Legion National Americanism Commission obligations:   “To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, to foster and perpetuate a 100 percent Americanism;  To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation;  To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses;  To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy,

 NOW, therefore, be it

RESOLVED,  By the American Legion, in regular meeting assembled, that the American Legion based on the Americanism Pillar,  which we are founded on, encourage our Legislators to oppose the implementation of the International Baccalaureate Program in our public institutions of education;

 AND, be it further

 RESOLVED, That the American Legion encourage our Legislators to oppose the Department of Education’s  role in this infiltration, under the ruse that IB offers a rigorous academic program that our institutions of education are unable to develop;

 AND, be finally

 RESOLVED,  That the American Legion encourage our Legislators to ensure that our public institutions of education remain under control of local government and  that this government’s authority never be abdicated to a Non-Government Organization such as IB under the influence of UNESCO or any other International Activity!

 As signed, dated and authorized by the governing body of the American Legion