Texas Mother who had her Daughter in IB for years - Talks About Programme

Pamela has written a lot on Judge Napolitano's blog.  Here is a link to all her comments, she posts as Children 1st,
http://freedomwatch.uservoice.com/forums/16625-freedom-watch-show-ideas/suggestions/178041-the-international-baccalaureate-program-in-schools

Here are some direct quote's from Pamela in some of these quotes she is responding to someone else.  Warning - after seeing IB for several years her comments are very one sided - only read her quotes if you still have an open mind about IB.

"When it comes to the IB it pays for parents to listen to another parent who has been INSIDE that system and already knows what it is really about."

"This is a standard method of operation with the IB. The IBO starts with making false statements about unfounded excellence in "education." Those false promises eventually pit parents into different camps against each other. The dire hope is that all those parents looking into the IB will continue to focus on those "non-related" issues they threw out so parents would get the focus OFF of what the IB IS really about."

"Just like all these other citizens speaking out against the IB.....I have NOTHING to GAIN from speaking out against the IB."

"This is also why they have to accomplish indoctrinating a 'majority' of the 'parents' FIRST."

"Those indoctrinated parents become the IB attack dogs FOR the UN to carry off the dirty work the IBO needs help with to silence anyone who dares to utter the truth about IB."

"Sadly Incline Village is the personification of all those community destroying battles against IB that never make the front page."

"This is where you educate YOURSELF...you look into the UN agendas and you learned them, so that YES you will see they are infiltrated into EVERY class discussion and EVERY IB assignment. The truth will be undeniable when you truly know UN agendas."

"Indeed...what do ANY of those targets of those IB agendas have to do with real academics? The mere labels of these IB 'profiles' say it all.. these are 'BEHAVIOR' profiles. Parents need to think HARD about what this really means. When a program is based upon nothing but targeting children's 'behavior and beliefs' using hardcore manipulative psychological tools...we will indeed see what you just described...that is every area they target has to do with 'areas of targeting behavior and mental manipulations' and nothing to do with teaching these kids the core materials of a real education."

"Especially when that 'profile' is being created to do nothing more then to target your kids beliefs for areas the IB wants to change to the beliefs of the UN. The sad reality is that the better these kids do on these 'profiles' means the more that kid has accepted the UN agendas."
 
"If I had to do it again...I would have never allowed them NEAR my precious child. I did see the threat early on and this is what I did with my kid to keep them out of her mind set as much as I could."
 
"Dr. Vardy, a keynote speaker for an IBO Conference held in Hanoi ( 2006) had what he found to be key points to share when speaking on the topic of IB enforced 'values' education. Dr. Vardy, made the points that 'Any viewpoint that would teach good verses evil, right verses wrong, and specifically the "American Way" was deemed as dangerous.'
Dr. Vardy also equated Christianity as a type of fundamentalism equal to radical Islamic Fundamentalism. For the Pro-IB parents who would think this must be some Anti-IB propaganda... this comes from the IBO themselves. The full text of Dr. Vardy's presentation can be found at: http://www.ibo.org/ibap/conference/2006regionalconf.cfm...
What are the targets of this so-called "values" based agenda of the IB?
1. Ethics and values
2. Issues of truth
3. Religious beliefs...
Further, please tell me if ANY of those targets of these IB 'value' agendas have ANYTHING to do with teaching our children the core basics of an 'academic' education?"
 
"The purpose of education is NOT for the government, OR the IB, to delve into our children's morality, values, sex life, religion, or beliefs of any kind. It is to teach basic core academic 'skills'. Not preach their versions of morality, their side of truth, their preferences for a nonexistent religion, or any of those non-academic areas."
 
"There is a very good reason why IB students say, 'I..BS...therefore IB.'"

"It doesn't matter how a kid FEELS about math or science...it only matters that they learn the proper tools and skills needed for those subjects."

"Indeed, I became a stiff thorn in the side of this insane program because they were trying their best to NOT give my child a REAL education in academics. Many times my kid was the only one who did an alternative project that taught her a real skills instead of spoon feeding a UN agenda into her head. In higher levels it got even worse. They threw all the kids into mindless herd thinking 'groups' for major projects that constituted a majority of the grade for that class. In those 'groups' my kid was out voted for her own end results regardless of her proof.. and she was forced to give answers that went against her own researched findings for that project. THAT is the IB...you can expect the 'opposite' from everything they alleged this program offers. There is NO free thinking allowed in IB, no TRUE individuality or creativity...the IB will pick the subject for your kid...while they give them a list (that IB created) to make them "think" they had free will. Then for that same IB controlled subject they will also let your kid know the answer they EXPECT. That answer is always promoting the socialist UN agendas."

"I want it noted that I take full responsibility for falling for the lies of 'excellence' that the IB stated this program offered. It is a decision I will regret for the rest of my life and a decision I have had to work double time on in re-educating my child because of her being in this program that messed with her mind set and beliefs nonstop. I made a horrible decision on her behalf when I let IB into our lives...Since I pulled my child from her IB school and she has been taking AP she has been working with real teachers who remember what a real academic curriculum consists of. I have seen what she can do when given the right tools and it is far higher then the limitations of what the IB did to her real abilities. She loves school again...most importantly she is enjoying just being a kid WHILE she is a kid."

"This program is not only ineffective in giving our kids a REAL education..but IF this program is followed 'exactly as it is designed' then it is indeed a real threat to the very mind set of our children, our bonds with our children, the beliefs we want our children to have..."

"In Kindergarten when they 'tried' to 'require' that my kid make a poster worshipping the earth instead of God."

"They brought in the UN environmental agendas for every class....regardless of how unrelated those core subjects were to those environmental agendas. To make those agendas fit the teachers continued to appear more and more inept.  It was a constant battle..I had to make the schools give alternative choices to my child for many homework assignments that had NOTHING to do with real academics."

"As I just shared.... this program is not just for 'school hours'... it is intended to be ALL inclusive into our personal lives at HOME. IF we let it...the IB will take over our child's entire life."

"This is the defining reason WHY the IB is an indoctrination program and NOT a true education. The whole intent of this program is to CONSUME the child's ENTIRE life...including how ever much TIME they can encroach into that child's life OUTSIDE of school hours. They do this by using all the methods that John just promoted..by using useless TIME consuming projects like CAS, BS bloated projects that only further the UN agendas into that child's life (outside of the school) and well into OUR time with our kids at home... Thus instead of having time for "family" the IB is all consuming of our kid by design."
 
"For the last year our IB high school would ADMIT IB graduating results...the final tally went like this. 84% of IB students FAILED to get the IB diploma. Again, we are talking about hand PICKED students who were noted to be high achieving students."

"In terms of cost...you want to use FORCE there too...via forcing ALL tax payers to pay for a program that is inferior to a program we can use for FREE."

"A few years ago there was a growing movement to get rid of the IB in my district."

"Nonetheless, the IB is VERY good at scamming schools and parents. I'll give them that."

"Then it took getting out of IB and into AP to see how much they LIED. I can only say that was the BEST decision I have made yet for her education."

"Indeed, the IB cannot back up these bigger-then-life statements they continue to tell parents because they are LIES. A slick marketing scheme..that's all IB is...The real END RESULTS of this program are indeed MISSING everywhere we look."

"Whatever it takes do NOT let IB get IN.  It is much harder to remove it once they get a strong hold on that district then it is to stop it from getting in."

"The IB cannot get in unless they use deceit, manipulations, and a lot of behind CLOSED doors meetings. Therefore the public is ambushed after a lot of the work has already been done behind their backs to leave them with no choice. Once they brainwash the school the rest is left up to that school to then convince the parents of what a "great" program this is. Why wouldn't the school take such a stance after being a part of such deceit? To admit they met behind closed doors and fell for unsubstantiated falsehoods about the 'superiority' of a program would then put the wrath of the public on THEM. Rightfully so too. If the shoe fits..let them wear IT. The IBO doesn't do anything on the 'up and up, because the whole program is a scam designed to hide a carefully crafted indoctrination program that is indeed treasonous to the very sovereignty of not just 'this country' but for every country they get these schools into."
 
"The IB is showing it's TRUE colors. Signing on Terror High, aligning themselves with the Aga Khan Development Network...and putting the ISLAMIC face on the IB curriculum."

"They do NOT want to cough up the actual figures of all these kids they have FAILED in which they cannot get them to pass their own program to gain the IB diploma. Our old IB schools is still missing 12 years of IB graduating stats. What's even more pathetic is the stats they DO reveal are HORRIBLE. So I shudder to think of what those 12 missing years of stats will reveal when I finally get my hands on them. Yet they "still" deem the IB as a success????"

"For many of these gifted kids this program boils down to nothing but an insult to their intelligence."

"As I said the largest cheerleading Mom for IB in our area still has NO clue her own kid is now agnostic. Her Mother is so rabid for IB there is no way she would allow any connection to be made if she did know. How do I know...that kid is still one of my kids best friends. She even laughs at her mothers ignorance...while not getting what IB has already done to her own family."

"What happened to Incline Village is a travesty! As a parent who has seen the devastation of this insane program in existing schools my heart goes out to all parents there. We truly do need to form a coalition of parents who are willing to travel and assist parents who are in these fights to even the score. IB is collecting millions each year, they have the UN on their side, and even our own school officials when they are bamboozled by the lies of IB. Thus the informed parent who decides to go after IB needs their own coalition of informed citizens right by their side. I am wanting to mount my own fight here and I know it will be an uphill battle because the IB does a whammy on indoctrinating the parents too. So I will not just be facing the embedded IB zealot officials who will fly in their talking heads..I will be facing parents I used to know as friends. This is what IB does to our communities...it tears them apart...turning them into sides then usually end up in bitter disputes. The best thing an informed parent has on their side today is the horrible economy we are facing. Indeed, with horrific budget shortfalls they will be looking to bring the ax down wherever they can in education to stay afloat. The absolute best place to start is with all IB schools."

"As the years progressed the damages I witnessed in IB students were more pronounced in many of these kids they were allowed to have unlimited access to."

"The IB is a threat to our kids because it's an indoctrination program intended to change the beliefs of our students via incessant repetition in EVERY class, for EVERY subject for years and years. The intent is to force these kids to memorize the UN agendas with the end goal of wanting those kids to then take ON the UN agendas as their OWN agendas in our future."

"IB even takes all ownership of the child's work to use in whatever future marketing scheme they can dream up next. Even the test are NOT graded in the US by Americans. Therefore parents and students are left with NO recourse should they try to find out why an IB test was graded a certain way...IB is ALL about targeting our kids BELIEFS and CORE VALUES."

"The average cost PER school each year is $200,000. There really is nothing more insulting then to find out our taxes are being used to brainwash our own kids into turning them against their own families, their faith, their core values and their OWN country in the future."

"Ever wonder what they really mean by those 'rigors' of IB John? Let me give you an example of IB 'teaching methods.' The IB takes the LONGEST route to teach basic core materials because they cannot just teach the core components...oh no... all the BS indoctrination of IB is mandated by the IBO to be incorporated and infiltrated into EVERY subject."

"The AP does not have the incessant UN agenda shoved into the AP materials. Here's the difference..For an IB project..IB students are told to go paint a large room with a TOOTHBRUSH. Worse, the IB students are made to contemplate what it FEELS like to be the toothbrush, and they are also to contemplate that the toothbrush doesn't even exist... Meanwhile, the AP student is given a PAINT brush and a PAINT roller. They are shown proper painting 'techniques'. The AP teacher doesn't care what the student thinks about how an inanimate object feels or if it exits. They just want the kid to learn a tangible skill of painting and they give that kid the best tools needed to do the job well. Meaning those kids are given the RIGHT tools to do the job correctly and efficiently. Not shocking... The AP kid is already done painting their entire room with the large roller brush..while the IB kid is still sitting there contemplating how the toothbrush feels or if it even exist. Meanwhile the IB student is not learning any real skills, thus far they are not getting any real work done either. Why? They were given the wrong tools to do the job with from the start. Then instead of getting real directions they were sent off on a wild goose chase filled with psychological BS. By thew time they get to the tedious work of trying to paint a large room with a toothbrush they are sleep deprived....mentally wiped out. yes, some finally get the room painted..but what skill did they really learn?
These are the types of 'teaching methods' they are masquerading behind those 'rigors' of IB. This is why the IB takes the longest route in every subject they teach...using the seemingly worse tools. What's pathetic is when we find out it is ALL by DESIGN. They purposefully use the wrong tools and they purposefully take these kids off on a wild tangent. Why? Indoctrination and brain washing does take a heck of a lot longer then just teaching materials that are not intended to threaten the core values of the student."

"Same parent had two kids...one in IB and one in AP... the one in IB was NOT allowed to transfer more then 8 credits earned in IB while the one in AP was granted almost two FULL years of college credits to put under their belt."
 
"It is one thing to tell parents the truth... if they opt for IB the kid will belong to that program. Quite another to tell them the BS lines of this being the so-called 'best' EDUCATIONAL program. IT is the best INDOCTRINATION program out there."

"It starts with our kids. If the UN is allowed to infest the minds of our kids in US schools to the extent of making them future 'global' citizens who will be loyal to the 'UN'...then our country does not stand a chance of remaining sovereign in the future. My kid was in an IB school. I know first hand how anti-American and threatening this program really is. This program is a threat to a child's very mindset because it specifically targets the beliefs, morals, and values of our families.  It needs to be abolished..."

 

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