Stow Citizens for Responsible Government Viewers:
 
My name is Rhonda Custer.  I am the unofficial truthaboutib.com contact for Stow-Munroe Falls and the parent seen on the video of the last BOE meeting.  Many people have worked countless hours to research and request information to assist local citizens in understanding the concerns associated with International Baccalaureate.  We hope that you are now familiar with the cost, lack of academic improvement, extreme ideology and indoctrination, and lack of both feasibility and sustainability of the IB PYP.  ARRA and Title I grants will run out.  Without additional funds, the IB PYP plan for Stow-Munroe Falls deteriorates!
 
As we continue to denounce IB implementation as unnecessary, ridiculously costly, and potentially detrimental, we are often subjected to the Delphi Effect:  criticism, threats, and character assaults.  Until now, I have chosen to simply ignore that which is so obviously ignorance or desperation.  Now, though, I believe that there is a genuine threat to our cause.  So, I have no choice but to defend the purpose for which we stand:  IB Moratorium Now!
 
There is a movement to berate those that question IB as “negative, mean-spirited, and angry”.  Furthermore, such “negativity” is allegedly risking passage of school levies and putting Stow-Munroe Falls’ property values in peril.  Rest assured, we who question the worthiness of IB for SMFCSD do not look poorly upon our schools and neighborhoods.  On the contrary, we support the excellence that is already in place and hope to preserve that which we love about our schools and our community.  SMF is a beautiful, friendly slice of small town America.  Our traditional family values are on parade every July Fourth.  Our children are among the most successful learners in the state.  We question not our schools; but our schools’ need for IB…and we find IB unfit!
 
We have communicated both information and our objections to IB to the SMF BOE & administration, and state and local government.   Our mission now is only to convince others to do the same.  Those with questions are encouraged to contact me via the link on the SMF truthaboutib.com web page.   
My hope is that anyone who visits stowidiocracy.com or  truthaboutib.com  will join our cause- POSITIVE that our teachers can already supply all that their students require, POSITIVE that America is still exceptional, and POSITIVE that fiscal responsibility is always the right course.  Life in Stow-Munroe Falls grants so many blessings.  Protecting them is necessary, not “negative”!